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inkes Mr. Young’s different experience in soiling, some Aucke years ago, originated, I have reason to believe, tom in the bad quality of the stock. Suffolk pigs thout the are extremely tender, and require the best food. ); In:fack I speak feelingly, having formerly lost test considerable sums, by suffering myself to be per- i suaded by a servant, native of Norfolk, to feed ‘f Norfolk and Suffolk pigs.

Excepting the case of a general overflow of pig- stock, in the country,(an event, which, from the se: facility with which pigs may be multiplied, usually oF happens every third or fourth year), there are the following items in favour of breeding: five months pigs may be bred from five to ten shillings a head cheaper, on an average, than they can be purchas- PRS, ed; and the buyer not being situated in or near a breeding district, may meet with great difficulty Detter in procuring well-bred pigs, an object of the first ofthis consequence in store-feeding, and so well under- woer,| stood by the farmers of the Hundreds of Essex, that they have annually, about Michaelmas, consider- t then, able numbers purchased for them, in Herefordshire which and Shropshire; these go into Essex some shillings and=f under five crowns a head, and are sold, the follow- swine!- Ing year, out of the clover and stubbles, to the Lon- always don salesmen, at three to four guineas each. Suc- rant cess in feeding store-pigs for market, depends al- Fa oct most entirely, on obtaining, either by breed, or aay purchase, stock of good shape and growth. Stores, iH from four months old upwards, seldom fail to be articles of very ready sale, twice a year, at least; yearlings, and two-year old hogs, still more sale- Be able.

a of Being no longer useful, or wanted to breed, sows Ms NN are