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Hogs

1 Sows go 115 days nominally 4 mo. [months]  Farmers Calendar p 536
bringing 3 litter of 5 to 12 ea [each] in about 18 mo. [months]

2 Pigs should be castrated at 7 weeks - ibid

3 A hog living weighed 824. dead 715 difference 109
about 2/13.  Bordelry p. 185: about 7 to 8 pCent [percent]

4 weighed at 60 day old a sow & boar of my mixed English from
Fenimores boar - Sow 40: boar 42[illegible] alive

5 John Lecky a great Cock dealer in Pork & Bacon recommends the
white suffolk English Breed which at a year old weigh from 175 to 200 &
will thrive on grass alone in preference to the large hogs of 500 shipped from
Watford. they  make a finer flavored meat & are much more economical to raise.

6  - English Breeds , easy to fatten, of quick growth and early confined
1. Black or Hampshire (Cobbets) originally from China, similar to the South
Sea & West Indies kinds - pork esteemed [illegible] delicate meat, live in the U.S. with no
other food than they can procure in waste & woodlands. Weigh 100: at 1 year old
there - In this climate requires nothing but grass - fattened at one year weigh
175 to 194: - Cobbets on Long Island with 300 at 18 months old
[illegible] he speaks of weighed 540 [illegible] with legs 6 Inches long
2. Leicestershire or Mottled with little keeping may be raised to
300 [illegible] or more - at 1 year 178 [illegible] or more - run too much to fat without
a proportionate increase of flesh, have large bellies, weith less than
their appearance indicates - subject to liver complaints.
3. Suffolk - (Reuben Haines's kind) is a snug white Breed
preferable to the other of which Mr Lecky speaks above;
all the above have the points that constitute a well formed
hog - viz. short thick head, small prick up ears straight
back, long deep sides, short legs, round short & thick
Hams.
4. Bershire large white breed - are not worth encouragement
in Mr Lecky's opinion - [sketch of index finger pointed right] This appears to agree with my
own Experience in the case of a chop from a Boar which when killed weighed about 650.

7. A good sow and indifferent Boar do not improve the Breed - 
a good rule is always to have a well bred Sire- 
No 5. 6. 7. from Cork or [illegible] Farmers Magazine No XX. 1817

8.  Cobbets years Residence Part I pa 107 speaks of Hogs raised by Mr
Wm Gauntlett late a Commissary in Spain which are superior to this
Hampshire Breed - I presume they were brought from Spain.
Mr J. E Bloomfield in April 1820 imported a pair from Spain.
The are black - ears rather long, bodies remarkably round with very little hair
legs & faces longer than the Hampshire. They appear to feel the cold of our
winters very sensibly. Mr Bloomfields speaks highly of the delicacy, flavor
and whiteness of their meat.

9. Brimstone a spoonful to each hog once a month recommended by Gordon
Parsons Esq Massachusetts. vid Am.[American] Farmer vol. 3 p. 358.
        