464 THE HOG. 



1st. That foals, the issue of mares weighing from 960 to 1100 lbs., 

 weigh at birth about 112 lbs. 



2d. That during suckling for three months, the weight increases 

 in the relation of 278 to 100, and that the increase corresponds very 

 nearly to 2 and j\ lbs. avoirdupois for each individual per diem. 



3d. That the increase of weight per diem of foals from the end 

 of the first to the end of the second year, is about 1 j\ lbs. avoirdu- 

 pois ; and that towards the third year, the increase per day falls 

 something under 1 lb. avoirdupois. After three years complete, the 

 period at which the horse has very nearly attained his growth and 

 development, any increase becomes less and less perceptible. These 

 conclusions in regard to the horse, differ very little from those 

 which I have had occasion to draw in connection with horned cattle. 



I have also made a few experiments with reference to the quantity 

 of provender consumed by foals in full growth, and have found that 

 Alexander, Finette, and Hechler's filly, weighing together 1106 

 lbs., consume per day : 



Hay 19.8— Hay 19.8 



Oats T =Ditto....; 11 



Total allowance 80.8 



Per head 10.22 



The mean weight of these foals was 368.6 lbs., so that the hay 

 consumed for every hundred pounds of live weight was 2.85 lbs., 

 with which allowance the daily increase amounted to about 1.2 lb. 

 Consequently, a mixed provender, equivalent to 100 lbs. of hay, had 

 produced 12 lbs. of live weight. I must confess that this result 

 appears to be somewhat too favorable, but I can only set down the 

 numbers as they presented themselves to me. 



The flesh of the horse is not generally used, or at least openly 

 used, as food for man, though there are countries in which it is ex- 

 posed for sale and commonly eaten. At Paris, indeed, in times of 

 scarcity, horse-flesh has been consumed in quantity. During the 

 Revolution, a knacker exposed publicly for sale, in the Place de 

 Greve, joints from the horses which he had killed, and the sale con- 

 tinued for three years without any ill efi*ect ; in 1811, a scarcity 

 obliged the Parisians to have recourse to the same kind of food, and 

 it is said, indeed, that the traffic in horse-flesh as an article of human 

 sustenance is still continued to a very considerable extent in the 

 French metropolis ; at the present moment, a distinguished writer on 

 Medical Police, M. Parent-Duchatelet, has even proposed to legalize 

 the sale of horse-flesh as food for man. 



There is perhaps no farming establishment which does not keep 

 a certain number of hogs, a measure by which ofial of all kinds that 

 would jjo directly to the dunghill, is turned to the very best account. 

 The dairy, the kitchen-garden, and the kitchen, all yield their con- 

 tingent of food to the pig-stye, which is moreover an excellent 

 nuians of using up certain portions of the harvest But the rearing 



