Practical Agriculture. 
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One of the most eminent breeders of show-pigs commences Feeding young 
le artificial feeding of the young pigs at five or six days old ; 
iving them warm milk mixed with fine sharps, and a small 
uantity of whole maize. Castration is performed at about six 
eeks old, and at two months old the animals are weaned. For 
le first few weeks after weaning, they are fed very often, care 
?ing taken that they clean out the troughs after each meal. 
he food is warm in winter, but not in summer ; and consists of 
heat-, maize-, barley-, oat-, and other meal, mixed and wetted 
ith a little cold water, then scalded with boiling water, and 
)rinkled with salt. Between the feeds, the pigs have whole 
laize, and mangolds or swedes cut small. Another breeder 
ives his little pigs meal or whole oats, also ground lentils and 
its, and a small proportion of sharps, given wet ; and they 
:ive barley and maize after they are three months old. On 
liry farms, whey and butter-milk, and on other farms, wash 
id refuse kitchen-stuff, form an important part of the diet 
i' both young and older pigs. 
Store pigs are kept in open yards, sometimes herded during Management 
le day upon the fallows in spring and early summer, sometimes "^"^^ P'S^- 
razed upon pasture (mischief from their rooting being prevented 
y ringing), and generally driven for some weeks upon the 
atumn stubbles. But wash and mangolds, supplemented on 
lany farms by cabbages, and by grasses and green crops cut and 
;irried to them in the yards, form the principal summer food of 
|;ore pigs, in addition to what they pick up of the farm refuse. 
1 winter they thrive upon what the cattle leave in the straw- 
ards, with an addition of roots and corn. 
Mr. C. S. Read, in his Report on the " Farming of Oxford- C. S. Head, 
lire," described the very important part performed by pigs in ^f^' °° 
laking farmyard-manure. On arable land where they are kept ^ 
5 stores, they are generally bought in twice a year — January and 
une. From twenty to forty pigs are kept in a straw-yard, and 
re supplied with swedes and mangolds, and one pint each of 
Id beans daily. At first the beans as well as the roots are 
mattered all over the yard, and the pigs, being thin and active, 
JOt over the straw and thus improve the manure. But as 
ley become less active, the beans are thrown on a clear spot. 
he pigs that are bought in January will be ready to go away 
1 May, and the summer ones will be cleared out by Christmas. 
hey pay better than sheep in proportion to the expenditure on 
)od ; for a teg will often not sell for more, after five or six 
lonths' feeding, than a store pig which cost half the money. 
Feeding young porkers to be killed at four or five months old. Fattening pigs, 
nd fattening bacon-hogs at twelve up to twenty-four months old, 
I re conducted upon the same general principles as to warm 
