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house, and inquiry made of several farmers as to whether sows 

 would eat their pigs at a fortnight old. The testimony being 

 unanimous that they would not, it was concluded that the miss- 

 ing ones had been stolen, and the two were returned after a day's 

 absence to the maternal bosom. About two days after these 

 had also disappeared, but some traces of blood and fragments of 

 skull showed the way that they and their fellows had gone. The 

 sow had had plenty of food, having gained flesh during her suck- 

 ling. Her diet was a pailful of pieces of mangel wurzel and a 

 liberal allowance of soft corn in the ear, night and morning, and 

 a pailful of good swill from the house at noon. The night that 

 the first pigs went was very stormy and pretty cold, but the pigs 

 were in a sheltered room and had a good bed. The night the 

 last two went was also considerably colder than for a night or 

 two preceding. 



Mr. Yeeder. — I have heard this attributed to the sow having 

 too good a bed, that sows with very little bedding never eat their 

 pigs. 



Mr. Burgess said that he had suffered in this way in England, 

 and yet he never gave much bedding. 



Another gentleman said it was probably a want of animal food, 

 and thought that if well fed with meat it would cure the evil. 



WINTERING APPLES. 



Wm. S. Carpenter said that he had found apples to keep 

 remarkably well this winter. I have a number of barrels on 

 hand that have been frozen hard, without injury. Some varieties 

 injure more than others. 



R. L. Pell. — It dont hurt apples to freeze if they are allowed 

 to remain undisturbed till they thaw. Repeated freezing and 

 thawing will destroy them. 



Dr. Trimble. — If apples are put in cold water the frost is 

 drawn out without injury to the fruit. 



POTATOES FREEZING. 



Mr. Carpenter said that potatoes may freeze in the ground and 

 thaw without injury. 



Some gentlemen stated that when potatoes or apples are acci- 

 dentally frozen, the best way to recover them is to bury them in 

 the earth below danger of further freezing, and there the frost 

 is gradually drawn out. 



Mr. Veedcr stated that the two last years he had kept his 



