1805.] Of the Different Breeds of Swine. 5

quced to take the boar Sooner than otherwise would be the CaSe.

In the management of hogs it is of great consequence to keep the different orts Separate and distinet from each other, as the 50ws in pig, those with pigs, and the stores accord- ing to their ages. It is only in this way that they can be kept to the most advantage. At the time of pigging It 15 necessary also that each 80w Should be kept in a Separate Stve, in order that there may be no interruption or disturb- ance from the others coming about her. About this period, likewise, more than ordinary attention Should be bestowed on the 80ws, and the styes kept but thinly littered, in order that accidents may be avoided.

As the breeding of pigs is a business that affords the farmer a congiderable profit and advantage in varl00s views, it is of essential importance that he be provided with zuitable kinds of food in abundance for the Support of the numerous Sows that it will be necessary for him to keep, and the great number of pigs that must be raised. Upon this being properly and effectually done, his Success and ad- vantage will in a great measure depend. The crops capable of being cultivated with the most benefit in this intention, are beans, peas, barley, buck-Wheat, potatoes, Ccarrots, parsnips, Swedish turnips, cabbages, lettuces, clover, 1lu- cerne, chicory,&C. The proportions in which these crops Should be grown for this purpose, must vary according to cir- eumstances; as the kind of hogs, their extent, and the manner of disposing of them; but, whatever number may be kept, an equal proportion of root crops: nd those of the grass kind will be requisite, with about half as much of those of the farinaceous or grain kind as of thoze of the root 3ort; and a quantity of the Iuxuriant veg table kind, ſally in pro- portion to the number ot hogs that are to be fed on Such gorts of food.

In the Supplying of the hogs with food, a distinction is Jikewise“ to be made according to the different kinds, in order that the most may be made of the food. The sows considerably advanced in pig, and those with pigs, Should be fed in a better manner than the store pigs. The tormer Should be Supplied with good wash twice or oſftener in the day, and have a Suflicient allowance of cabbages, potatoes, carrots, or other Similar vegetables, 50 as to keep them in 900d condition; which is Shown by the gloss oi tlieir coats. "The Sows with pigs Should be kept with their littefs in Sepa- rate Styes, and be still better fed thar those in pig. Where dairying is practised, the wash of that kind which bas been preserved for the purpose, while the dairying was at the height, in brick eisterns, coustructed for receiving it from

the dairy, must be given Them, with food of the root kind,