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ae| appetites palled, a little sulphur, in their meat, fh| twice or thrice, will ve the inconvenience. =e The witches, as they are called in Hampshire and ees Berkshire, or sliding boards, to prevent the pigs hundred| from spoiling their meat, are very convenient. A sabia market being at hand, and the stores judiciously lore meat chosen, fattened pigs will pay a profit of from two prods to four shillings a head; bacon-hogs from four to ststore| se ten, a profit not inconsiderable, the corn expended atagood being reckoned at the market-price, cartage and market expences saved, anda great quantity of the thus best manure raised. Hogs will fatten as well loose ) weight, as confined. other a The pairy-porx of Oxford and Buckingham- orn, for shire, chiefly sent up alive to the metropolis, is su- eterio- perior to any in England, both for delicacy and ening flavour; its superiority over that of Essex and Suf- y lowers folk, arises from the quality of the pigs, affording ely that a greater quantity of flesh, or lean, and a firmer self. 1, fat; the rhind is thick, but gelatinous and nourish- 's ams ing. The suffolk and. Essex pork has too little of vith half lean, and therind is thin and hard. g grass,| The KEEP ofa sow, whilst suckling, may be Fk, pro reckoned, upon the average, at eighteen pence to ket is 4 two shillings and sixpence per week; at other times, sypeton from three-pence to one shilling: pigs weaned and pe taken cut, may be generally estimated at the cost of two he supe shillings and sixpence each; their keep, afterwards| antit pi five to eight-pence per week, until five months oid. th! i Memorandum, in October, 1790,* Two pails of i an skimmed-milk, at a meal, served well, two sows and ps: aus fifteen pigs, three months old; they had bean-meal iat: and bran, mixed, one-third of the former; after- ee, NN 2 wards,