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flock, he was seized with a degree of frenzy; and had not their owner’s son™ fortunately entered the field, at the juncture, the whole flock(worth near six hundred pounds) might have been lost. But, by rousing them with dogs, getting them upon their legs, and driving them toa high, airy ground (the weather being warm, and the field of accident hanging to the sun), only five of them suffered.

SWINE. The BREED is mostly of the large, spotted, Hampshire, or Berkshire va- riety; or a sub-variety of this breed, called the“ tunback,” from the regular curvature of the spine.

In the ratTine of swine, I met with two particulars of practice, on the hills of Surrey, which are entitled to notice, here; they being new to these Registers.

In one of them salé was mixed with their food, in the proportion of a pint to every two bushels of barley meal; under an opi- nion, that it kept them from disorders, forwarded their fatting, and added to the delicacy and flavor of the pork.

In the other, the meal or flour, whether of barley, peas, or other grain, was given to them, dry;—and this in the practice of one of the largest and best farmers, on these

* Mr. Wittiam Asupy of Woodmanston, in the Banstead quarter of the Hills of Surrey.