snd shut up about a fortnight beforehand in 
the stye; and while pigging, it is of extreme 
consequence that no one approaches them, 
or is even seen looking at them, as in this 
case they will often devour their farrow. 
After a week from this period, they should 
for a few hours in the day have the freedom 
of the yard, which will be a great relief 
from total confinement. Winter pigs, if not 
kept with great attention, are found less pro- 
fitable than others. Milk and whey may so 
usefully be applied to them, that perhaps no 
other mode of their application is equally ad- 
vantageous ; and the best process for wean- 
ing them is by giving these articles to them 
- mixed up with peas-soup, though the latter 
alone will answer well. When three or four 
months old, nothing is better for them than 
clover: turnips alone will not be proper, 
but corn should be added to them. Carrots 
and potatoes will keep them well till their 
full growth. Malt grains, if easily and 
cheaply to be procured, are highly to be re- 
commended. 
With a view to fattening hogs, the corn 
employed should be ground into meal, and 
in the proportion of five bushels to 100 gal- 
lons of water should be mixed in large cis- 
terns : the mixture should for three weeks 
be well stirred every day, and at the end of 
that period will have fermented and become 
acid, before which it should not be given. 
A succession of vessels should be filled with 
this fermented food, that some may be al- 
ways ready ; and, before it is applied, it 
should be always stirred. Peas soup is 
perhaps equally wholesome food with the 
above, and especially if made with warm 
milk. The preparation, however, is more 
expensive. Fatting hogs should be con- 
stantly well littered, and be kept perfectly 
clean. 
POULTRY. 
With respect to poultry, constituting as 
they generally do part of the stock, how- 
ever small, upon farms, a few observations 
on them may not be thought superfluous. 
If kept merely for domestic supply, parti- 
cular attention is needless. When reared 
with a view to profit, however, and on a 
somewhat large scale, they will repay, as 
they indeed require, considerable attention. 
A house should be erected for them, con- 
taining divisions appropriately for roosting, 
sitting, fatting, and food. The building should 
be constructed near the farm-yard, having 
clear water contiguous to it. Warmth and 
smoke are great cherishers of poultry. All, 
of every species, must have access to gravel 
and grass. Their cheapest food consists of 
boiled potatoes, on which it appears that 
they can be supported and fattened, with- 
out the aid of any com. Where numbers 
of them are kept upon a farm, if permitted 
to go at large, they will often do consider- 
able injury both in the fields and barn-yard, 
besides which they will be extremely ex- 
posed to the attacks of vermin, and will lose 
a considerable number of their eggs. A 
full-grown hen continues in her prime for 
three years, and may be supposed in that 
time to lay 200 eggs, which number, how- 
ever, by warmth and nourishment, might be 
greatly exceeded. 
The quality and size of the Norfolk tur- 
keys are superior to those of any other part 
of tlie kingdom. They are fed almost en- 
tirely with buck-wheat, which, perhaps, may 
account for their excellence, and are bred 
by almost every little farmer in the county. 
When young, they demand perpetual atten- 
tion, and must be fed with alum curds and 
chopped onions, and the expense attending 
their management and food can be compen- 
sated only where broods are tolerably suc- 
cessful, and the prices high. 
THE DAIRY. 
In the conduct of a dairy, which, in all 
but the most productive corn countries, is 
an object of particular consequence to the 
farmer, it is obviously of the first importance 
to select cows of the best sort, and in judg- 
ing of the value of this animal, the best me- 
thod of deciding it is by the quantity of 
cream produced in a given time, rather than 
of milk. The richest milk known is pro- 
duced by cows of the Alderney breed; but, 
in all countries, cows yielding a very supe- 
rior quantity of milk to the generality are 
to be found, and should be sought for by 
those persons to whom their produce is a 
particular object of attention; and the breed 
of such should be particularly Cultivated. 
Rough waste lands, when the soil is wet, 
will do better for cows than sheep, and 
should be always appropriated to them, not 
indeed because they are tlrsfcljest for cows, 
but because no stock will so well pay upon 
them. 
The grand object of keeping cows being 
the production of abundance and excellence 
of milk, they must, for this purpose, be sup- 
plied with food of the same description. 
About a month before they calve they 
should be taken from the straw-yard, and 
have green food given them twice a day, 
