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ner : my piggery is situated near my cider-mill house, and consists 

 of two apartments, each sufficiently large to contain my pomace, 

 and other substances intended to make manure, for one year. 

 Here I throw my pomace, when sufficiently pressed, for my hogs 

 to work over, which gives them constant employment, and I am of 

 opinion that they get considerable nutriment from it. The next 

 season, after the frost is out of the ground, I throw in some loam, 

 and in the summer, at leisure times, I continue to throw in weeds 

 from my vegetable garden. My hogs keep continually rooting 

 this compost over, and causing the pomace to decompose, which, 

 at the end of fifteen or eighteen months, makes excellent manure. 



The next season for making cider, my pomace is thrown into the 

 other assortment, which passes through the same process. I usual- 

 ly keep six or eight hogs, which are divided and kept in these 

 apartments. My mill-house, and other accommodations attached 

 to it, consists of a building 80 ft. long and 23 ft. in width. The 

 water-spouts of this building have conductors to carry the water 

 into each of these apartments, which are kept continually moist, 

 and which I think very important for my hogs to wallow in, in the 

 heat of summer, as well as to decompose the pomace. I take out 

 of one of these apartments upwards of 25 ox-cart loads of excellent 

 manure, every spring. I have given my low mowing land a top- 

 dressing of this manure, and have taken the same year, a crop of 

 hay equal to 2 1-2 tons to the acre, and a crop of rowen equal to 

 one ton to the acre. This manure 1 consider worth to me from 

 25 to $30, besides the service the pomace is to the hogs. 



Before the adoption of this plan I used to throw my pomace 

 into my pastures, upon rocks, and received little or no advantage 

 from it. 



I have not written the above with a disposition to differ from 

 any person in opinion, but with a view to general utility, upon a 

 subject apparently triffing, yet connected as it is with the number- 

 less items that engage the attention of farmers, it may serve as a 

 ipoke to support the firm wheel of Agriculture. A Farmer, 



Norfolk County, Dec, 4, 1827. 



To this last communication succeeded another, not approving the 

 plan of the Norfolk Farmer, as being the most economical, because 

 all of the pomace could not be consumed by six or eight hogs ; and 

 alleging that pomace did not contribute much to the manure, until 

 it had passed through the stomachs of the hogs. He recommended 

 that the pomace should be carefully dried under cover, and dealt 

 out to the stock at such times, and in such quantities as was most 

 proper ; thus making it an article of foddeir or rather of luxury. 

 We are aware, that there is a prejudice against the use of pomace, 

 and also of apples, as an article of food for hogs or cattle — that 

 (hey are injurious, &c. ; but we presume, that whenever this kind 



