10 On the Management of Swine.[Jan« another method of fattening, which, in particular Situation*, may be practised with profit and Success, which is that of employing the wash of large distilleries with grains and Some 304 OB meal.(In the first Partof Me taenns the grains and wash are given, and in the latter the meal.*

The. quantity or weight of pork produced by'a given quantity of pease, beans, meal, or other materials employed in the fattening of hogs, has not been well ascertained, and It is probable that, a great dea) will depend upon the Size, breed, and disposition to fatten; but, judging from the value of the animals before and after they have been fattened, it is concluded by Mr. Knight, that a Winchester bushel of the frst of the above articles may add about nine or ten pounds to the weight of a good hog of twenty SCOre, O1 PeT- hap3 Something more upon a larger, and considerably less on one of a mall Size. A hog put up to fatten in 200d condition,(and they Should never be put up in the contrary State,) which when fat will weigh twenty SCOre, will coisume in the proportion of 51x or Seven bushels of pcase.]

In regard to the method of giving the difierent materials that are employed in the fattening of wine, there are dif- ferent opinions entertained z some Ccontending that they Should be used as much as possible in a Solid form, wash, as drink, being occasionally uged: while others prefer the con- trary method as the most beneßcial: as in the latter mode there will be less time taken. up Dy the bogs in feeding, and 7 COLSE MEICLCHL TOP Nhem 10 SIED and 12st in, as well as 100re economy in the food and labour of giving It, It 18 prO- bably the most adxägeable,. I has indeed'been observed by Mr. Young, in his excellent Calendar of Husbaadry, that

method of converting corn of any kind into food for hogs, 1s to grind It into meal, and mix this with water in Ccisterns, in the proportion of five bushels of meal to one hundred gallons of water, Stirring it well Seve- for. three weeks in gold weather,'0r for a

<< he most profitable

ral times a da fortnight in a Warmer Scas0n, by which it will have fer mented weil aud become acid; ll which time it is vot ready »" This mixture Should always“* be stirred immedi-

ately before feeding," and“ two or three cisteras Should be '|

kept fermenting in SuccesSl0n, that no necesSity may OCCUr of giving it not duly prepared. The difference in proht between feeding in this manner, and giving the grain whole - is 50 great, that whoever tries it once will

or only ground, hange it for the common methods. It 1s

Dot. be. apt to c

added, that“ pea-Soup 15 an excellent food for hogs, and

may, though he bas uot Sufficiently compared them, equal * Annals of Aoriculture, Vol XXT

t Communications to the Board vf Agriculture, Vol. IL.

+ Ibid.