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forts feparate and diftin@ from each other, as the fows in pig, thofe with pigs, and the ftores according to their ages. It is only in this way that they can be kept to the moft advantage. At the time of pigging it is neceflary alfo that each fow fhould be kept in a feparate ftye, in order that there may be no interruption or dif- turbance from the others coming about her. About this period, likewife, more than ordinary attention fhould be beftowed on the fows, and the ftyes kept but thinly littered, in order that accidents may be avoided.

As the breeding of pigs is a bufinefs that affords the farmer a confiderable profit and advantage in various views, it is of effential importance that he be provided with fuitable kinds of fcolin abundance for the fupport of the numerous fows that it will be neceflary for him to keep, and the great number of pigs that muft be raifed. Upon this being properly and effectually done his fuccefs and advantage will ina great meafure depend.‘The crops capable of being cultivated with the moft benefit in this intention are beans, peafe, barley, buck-wheat, potatoes, car- rots, parfnips, Swedifh turnips, cabbages, lettuces, clover, lucerne, chicory,&c. The proportions in which thefe crops fhould be grown for this purpofe muft vary according to circumftances; as the kind of hogs, their extent, and the manner of difpofing of them: but whatever number may be kept, an equal proportion of root crops and thofe of the grafs kind will be requifite, with about half as much of thofe of the farinaceous or grain kind as of thofe of the root fort; and a quantity of the luxuriant vegetable kind, fully in proportion to the number of hogs that are to be fed on fuch forts of food.

In the fupplying of the hogs with food a diftinction is likewife to be made ac- cording to the different kinds, in order that the moft may be made of the food, The fows confiderably advanced in pig, and thofe with pigs, fhould be fed in a bet- ter manner than the ftore pigs. The former fhould be fupplied with good wafh twice or oftener in the day, and have a fufficient allowance of cabbages, potatoes, carrots, or other fimilar vegetables, fo as to keep them in good condition; which is fhown by the glofs of their coats. The fows with pigs fhould be kept with their litters in fe- parate ftyes, and be ftill better fed than thofe in pig. Where dairying is practifed, the wath of that kind which has been preferved for the purpofe while the dairying was at the height, in brick ciflerns, conflructed for receiving it from the dairy, muft be given them, with food of the root kind, fuch as carrots, parfnips, potatoes and cabbages, in as large proportions as they willconfume them, in order that the pigs may be properly fupported and kept in condition. But where the bufinefs of dairying is not carried on fo as to provide wath of that fort, meal of fome kind or

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