368 BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
year to a year and a half old, had been maintained upon rather short 
allowance during the summer by means of swill from a tavern, to- 
gether with what grain and straw they picked up in the manure of 
the tavern stable beneath which they were kept. The locality was 
among the foot-hills of the White Mountain range in New Hampshire, 
where the summer is tolerably short, and where maize, though grown 
abundantly, costs the farmer rather more in terms of trouble and 
anxiety than either oats or peas. 
When put upon the apple ration, just described, these ites and 
hungry * swine not only ate the mash voraciously, but they immedi- 
ately began to grow with surprising rapidity, and they continued to 
prosper during the subsequent month or six weeks they remained 
under my observation. I am ignorant whether the fattening was 
finished upon the apple ration, or whether the hogs may not nate 
have been fed for a while upon maize. 
Buckwheat bran (not buckwheat husks), a substance tolerably rich 
in nitrogen,t which, according to Johnston, of Durham,} is greatly 
approved of for feeding pigs in certain parts of New Brunswick, is 
another kind of food which might perhaps be used with advantage 
in conjunction with apples in some localities. 
Statements of the successful use of apples, for feeding both cows 
and pigs, are occasionally made in the agricultural journals of this 
country,§ and it was doubtless the reading of these accounts, or the 
observation, during his travels in this country, of some of the infre- 
quent examples which they describe that led Johnston, of Durham,|} 
* It is worthy of remark that, in trying to repeat this experiment the next 
year, near Boston, upon a single pig, six or eight months old, that had always 
been kept well fed in a sty by itself, and had, consequently, never known want, 
or felt the need of haste in eating, the animal absolutely refused to eat a mash 
made of boiled greening and russet apples and corn meal. 
+ It contains from 15 to 18% of albuminoids, according to the analyses re- 
ported by Dietrich and Konig in their work entitled, “ Zusammensetzung und 
Verdaulichkeit der Futterstoffe,” Berlin, 1874. 
t In his “ Notes on North America,” Boston, 1851, 2. pp. 87, 128. 
§ See, for example, the following instances, which have been taken quite at 
random: Fessenden’s “ New England Farmer,” 1826, 4 125; “ Transactions 
Essex Agricultural Society,” 1835, p. 33; 1889, pp. 16, 17; 1846, p. 29; Col- 
man’s “Fourth Report of the Agriculture of Massachusetts,” 1841, pp. 123, 
826; “Transactions of Connecticut State Agricultural Society,” 1856, p. 274. 
| In his “Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology,” Edinburgh, 
1856, p. 60. 
