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to themselves and the sow, to allow them corn daily, oats, barley, or pease; and this may be thrown to quiet them in the absence of the dam.

After WEANING, one month, at least, of delicate feeding, warm lodging, and care. Milk and pol- Jard stand first, among the articles of food; but pol- lard and house-wash, with linseed jelly, will wean very successfully: feed three times a day, twice with the above; at noon, with hard corn. It is money very improvidentially saved, which is only another phrase for throwing money away, to give weaning pigs loose, rot-gut ronaiable trash, under the notion of bringing Hein up vhaed.

On sToRE-MANAGEMENT, the first object is keep. Wash may be made a number of different ways, and of various articles. Potatoes, meal and linseed, boiled, make rich and excellent wash: meal and cold water alone, will make good drink for pigs. Much has been said, and little understood, about purposely souring food for hogs. It is not that aci- dity can possibly tend to pinguefaction, but that it has been found that pigs will readily fatten upon acid, or rather acescent food, a sweetish taste, and glutinous quality succeeding fermentation; and that they will do so, still more readily, upon such as has never reached the acid state, I know, and have seen in hundreds of instances. Is a proof wanted? How much more speedily do the country hogs feed upon sweet, and unfermented food, than those of the starch-house upon the fermented and subacid wash, however rich? I say subacid, for did not the Starch-makers‘run off a great part of the really sour, they would kill, instead of fatten, their hogs;

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