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parcels, and kept that month feparately in the following 
manner: 
No. i. Boiled carrots. 
a. Boiled potatoes. 
3. Boiled turnips. 
4. Boiled cabbages. 
At the end of the month they were turned out and viewed 
attentively. The refult was, 
No. 1. the belt—boiled carrots. 
2. next—boiled potatoes.' 
3. and 4, equal-all nearly dead. 
Carrots continue, in every trial, fuperior to all common 
vegetable food. I am, fays he, not at all furprifed at the 
ill luccefs of turnips and cabbages. 
Exp. VI. In June, he draughted from his piggery 
twenty that were of a perfect equality in fize and appear¬ 
ance; they were even half grown; marked them into four 
lots, and turned 
No. 1. into his clover-field. 
a. lucerne ditto. 
3. fainfoin ditto. 
4. burnet ditto. 
In another month they were driven upand viewed ; the 
refult was, 
No. 2. the fineft—lucerne. 
1. next—clover. 
3. next—fainfoin. 
4, very indifferent—burnet. 
The refult of this experiment he thinks decifive in favour 
of lucerne, and likewife in the proportionable merit of the 
other articles; but it mu ft be farther inquired into by fu¬ 
ture experiments. The refult of thefe trials is thus given : 
Milk mixed with pollard appears to be, of all food, 
the mod proper for rearing pigs. MiLk alone is good. 
Boiled carrots excellent, and fully proved to be fufficient 
for any farmer to depend on who does not keep a good 
daily. Potatoes boiled to a batter alfo a very good food. 
Turnips, cabbages, and malt-duft, very bad. Of green 
food, that which is growing is clearly the beft; mown, 
and given in ftyes, it is pernicious. In the field, lucerne is 
fuperior to all the reft. Clover comes next, then fainfoin; 
all thefe three are good. Burnet laft and bad. 
He then inftituted a fet of experiments in order to dif- 
cover what kind of food was moft proper for fattening 
hogs, when given to them feparately, and the belt mix¬ 
tures of them for that purpofe. 
Exp. VII. In January, he drew from the piggery ten 
hogs, as equal in fize as poffible, and weighed them alive 
in five lots. 
ftone lb. 
No. 1. weighed 
- 
13 4-. 
.2. 
3 - 
“ 
12 6 
13 0 
4 - 
5 - 
12 31 
I 3 I 
A nearer quality than fhis, in matters that can neither 
be added to nor diminilhed, can fcarcely be expected. 
No. 1. was fatted with white peafe, that weighed 561b. 
per bulhel; the price 30s. per quarter. No. 2. with pol¬ 
lard that weighed 22.1b. per buftiel; price gd. per bulhel. 
No. 3. vvith buck-wheat 471b. per buftiel; price 2s. 3d. 
per buftiel. No. 4. with boiled potatoes 541b. per buftiel; 
price 2s. per bulhel. No. 5. with boiled carrots 551b. per 
buftiel. 
He thought it beft to fix on a given fum, as proper to 
fat each hog. The people he conlulted were of opinion 
that eight buftiels of white peafe were neceftary to fat one 
luch hog well. This he accordingly fixed on as his cri¬ 
terion. The account of the expence therefore ftood thus : 
«£. s. d. 
No. x, Peafe, 16 buftiels' - - - 300 
2. Pollard, 80 buftiels - - -300 
3. Buck-wheat, 27 buftiels - - 300 
4. Potatoes, 28 bulhels at 2 16 o\ 
Labour apd coals - 040J 3 °° 
5. Carrots, 49 bufhels 2 13 2) 
Labour and coals o 4 10 J 3 0 0 
Each lot was weighed as foon as the food was clone, 
refult was as folio tvs: 
ftone. lb. 
No. 1. weighed - - 27 6 
2. - - 27 9 
3. - - - 29 13 
4. - - - 25 7 
.5- 7 - - 31 o 
It is here again evident, from this experiment, that car-. - 
rots boiled are fuperior to any other food. He did not 
expedt that potatoes would be" fo much inferior; but he - 
has found from divers other trials fince, that it is requi- 
lite to mix the meal of fome kind of corn with them. Pol- 
lard in this trial, as in the laft, is fuperior to peafe. 
With refpeft to the comparative fattening, quality of 
carrots and potatoes, it appears by this experiment that 
lot No. 5. gained 17 ftone 13 pounds weight in flefti, fed 
upon carrots; and lot No. 4, fed upon potatoes, gained 
but 12 ftone 10 pounds. The dilference was 5 ftone and 3 
pounds of flefti gained by feeding on carrots more than 
was gained by their feeding on potatoes ; a great fuperi- 
ority when viewed in this light. But on the other hand,, 
to gain-this greater weight there was a confumption of 
49 buftiels of carrots, and but 28 of potatoes. But 49 
buftiels of potatoes (the fame quantity as the carrots) 
would, in the above proportion, advance fuch a let of 
hogs to the weight of 22 ftone and 4 pounds ; that is, to 
4 ftone 5 pounds more in weight than the fame quantity 
of carrots did advance them ; by which it appears that 
potatoes are really more fattening than carrots, of the fame 
meafure or weight. The hogs feem to relifh carrots much, 
and they eat a great quantity of them; but, taking an- 
equal quantity of each, the potatoes go fartheft in fatten¬ 
ing hogs ; a circumftance that merits the farmer’s ferious 
attention; for it is much more difficult to find a foil that 
is proper for carrots than for potatoes, and the produce 
from an acre of potatoes is nearly as great, and frequently 
greater than the produce of carrots; nor is there much 
difference in the expence. This however is certain, that 
in moft farms, there is much more land proper for pota¬ 
toes than for carrots. The price of the potatoes, in this 
inftance, is indeed much higher than the carrots; but. 
that it is a circumftance merely local ; it is not fo in all 
places; as the farmers may in general raife potatoes as 
cheap as they can carrots, and in much greater quantities. 
The other experiments in Mr. Young’s paper, were 
made in order to difcover the fattening quality of feveral 
forts of food, when mixed together; pollard, bran, and 
of beans, peafe, buck-wheat, and barley ground into 
meal; upon which he makes the following obfervations : 
It appears from thefe experiments, that pollard alone, at 
the preceding prices, is a cheaper food than peafe alone. 
That boiled carrots is much the moft profitable, food that 
has been tried. That buck-wheat is a more profitable 
food than peafe. That feveral kinds of food mixed are 
better than given alone. That the meal of any one or 
various kinds of grain is better, and more profitable, than 
the whole grain mixed or alone. That peafe and barley 
are a much fweeter food than beans. 
The fow is capable of propagating at feven or eight 
months old ; but it is better to defer her taking the boar 
till ten or twelve months old, as fne becomes more ftrong 
and affords better litters of pigs. The period of being 
vvith young in the low is aBout four months, and the 
ul'ual produce from about eight to ten or twelve in the 
large, and more in the fmaller breeds, which in general 
bring the greateft number, and'the moft early. The boar 
ftiould be a year old or more before he be put to the fow,as 
by this delay he attains a better growth, and is more vigorous. 
After all, the breeding and fattening of pigs is 1 a bufi- 
nefs but of minor confideration, and mult remain lo while 
the (peculations in Iheep and in grazing prelent fo many 
fuperior opportunities of turning capital ; or until the 
time arrives when a more abundant population (hall ren¬ 
der animal food more fcarce, and the modes of railing it 
as much derived from the calls of necellity as from the 
defire of gain. 
Of 
