The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

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mice of opinion exists Si to ,
• r mit a pig Can he profitably hept by a
1..,.01. it ;.orne employers oaiceL to their
a pig. e.o.m.:tiering it as holding
to the soot to abstract from the
, store of faro. produce a portion of
,I. That tlo re have been, and will Le
s of F;r, ring is dountleps true,
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m. IL lIIS follows that a iiinuenius, bust
11..0c-t claSs or men Alaula be
m tie a mole:iv...lr.. to mid to. the eonifort,„
their families, merely because
• a.t. aid have swerved &Mil the path of
ti. • question id Profit. our "Perlellcv.
:atisfiwtorily that a log, ano
,otoe Mremustances, eveu two, may be kept
pr lit Icy a labouring aan. Ik•fore purchasing
3 pig, a store ..f .• wash- .1,, 1101 be accumulated. of
.uite the larger the quantity the better.
" as it is termed, consists of the liquor in
vegetables -have been boiled, the leaves
of ;,..y p .11 of greens. turnip peelings, &c., &e.
In the tummy there will be pleuty of vegetable
rel tee Inge the gaitlen, which may in that season WI
1,110511 lIlt" the sty in a fres'a stote. Formerly pigs
lei and Ltteind on potatoes, but this root,
its scarcity, can no longer be placed in the list
of les of pig provender, and it is even doubtful
whether p.rk po fatted can be made to equal that
tot an Isoley meal. Our plan has gene.
Icon v. procure in spraig a pig which, as prices
have'rite of late,. would cost about live and twenty
thou;11 in former thin/ mine of the mum
in.ght I:ai e been bought for fifteen shillings.
1, kept on vegetable refit*: and •• wash.'
Nlichaelinm, when the vegetable foral is
• Mail) ndaeol, and a little pollard is mixed with
nam. thus increasing the thickness of Um food
win! 2.44 t no and a hall or two hundred weight
canonnoul. To the last half hundred
w. ht of p.llard a small quantity of barley meal
he added, and when the pollard is ea haustawl,
the lop! will consist entirely of barley meal and
Towards the latter period of fattening
ti . meal may be mixed with water alone
a...i glue warm, to which may be added,
. very two or three days, a handful of salt.
TI., leg should be fed regulail; from the
in- t. tin:e times a clay, and oftener an the process
:;oes oti, according as the animal's appe.
me stems oi require, but care should be taken not
to give too a quantity of food at one time, as
it e..y lils 'my iouka and so wasted. A pig treated
will weL..L., when killed, ten score. The
may Ice Cat:Watt:a US under :
s.
c•-t or rig • • , ••• I 5 0
*1 cat polisrU .•• 015 0 3
g pack. barley meal .. 2 0 0

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reekoning pork at 9. a score, will Imre a
vont oi ten LilhntB. besides a good heap of velum-
.l.le 'emote. It should be observed that the it,uri
..! e.t as at out above are taken, at recent high
3!14I t.evalueLof the produce at a low price,
..! p.ik tie size named letehing at the present
A I. about Michaelmas should be
t. .1 iaine way, but the vegetable rause at
will beg !silted. o,..easionally a few
-r ben. :.• - but tires: should form
. very p .tion of their food. as they cause
to is• ....id. It is 3 C 01313.31 liotion
1 .7 totally irrespective of ekanhi-
a mistake., idea. That
y ve of filth may be true, but
• ..- ;ire a pig the option of leav•
,•• ~.! mad :mil mire in which lie has been .
s- one ot clean straw, and it will IS sin
which he pre:ers. We will conclude
with an extract from -a wider ou this
a:.. ays the jo-orit of elemiliness.—lle
had been tool by an experienced
tie r, tat he put up six pigs of nearly
at the same tune, and treated
•.i, v.•iy 3.1 to food and litter for seven
wcre left to shift for them-
- -aillines, the others were kept as
•• . i 0, with comb and .11-ird lii wall. The
•• I tied in seven weeks fewer peat by live
••lile.;:rbi Ciati the other three, yet w,tglieil more
'• when killed by two Amin and two pounds upon the
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mitocrii.--The united ages of ten persons in I
tiie of oin.•aboor relief In W ke parish,
amounts to SIN year& The two youngest are each.
;9. and tie! two oldest S.-. years of age.
Usivr.issitv NATrItAL ficlENct: CLasst
-Ainoithet. the four Dailies placed on the list if
lio.belae. taco this November, appears that of Mr.
sou of Richard lritliii,
of I IZoyal Terrace, Wey ))))) uth. Mr. t titbit cone
1111-ne,sl his University studies by obtaining au open
mr.imarslop at. Lincoln College. the vac,uicies being
two, and tin: 000I6eT of candidates thirty six. In
June, I<o, Mr. Ile initial moue ;appeared in second
eta, of honours in Mmierat. •
no is .rit or. CA v r %IN ?—.k meeting of the
niembers of the Weyno•utli Company Id Ilitle Volun-
teers Was lichl at the Tow nhall, Oil MOrlitly eV • g,
for the purposeof nominating a gentleman to till the
office of Captain to the corps, in the room of Mr.
U•vzi. 011, u hit Lid resigned. laeuteoant We6lord
ini*.ll.: declined to be put in nomination, Ensign
'Elio e•ner wad pri.l)oSed, WC led, and I y
clected, and that gemleuian expressed his willingnes*
to accept the office, provided it were agreeable to
the Colonel id the battalion ; but he read a letter
whieli lie hail received from lacutenant•Colonel
Nlansel, reipwiting him 110 t, to allow hut rame to be
f .roarded to the Lord Lieutenant of the county- for
appointment, till lie had seen him. As he WOUlii be
able to see Lieut.( 'oh. Mansel oil rriilay. the meeting
%AI adjourned till lusailay evening next. Colonel
Nlaii*el's object iu writing the letter ihi,l not appear,
lint it it is his wish to appoint a superior officer to
the eompany contrary to the choice of the members,
it will, to say the least, Tau*: great dissatisfaction.