Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-10-29

n hog, .p5n rich food. VII IN inucll bigger at
The end 81 q year, than hog upon COED grox ing
diet: boz he will not be bc bigger al tho end OF
feo years, and especially a; the and Of three
wears
His size is not 10 b. forced on, an, .noru than
'hat OF child, beyond a certain poin,
For these rea.ols. If were settled rs a farmer
would let ny hogs have tine 10 come 10 thar siz..
Some sorts come TO II al earlier pei iod, and this
y amongst the good qualities of my English hogs,
bat, 10 do tl.e thing well even they ought 10 have
fTO ysdrs 10 troW IN.
The reader will ihnk, that shall n1ysi cease
talking about hog, but have now done, only |
viii add, that IN kcepin. hogs in II groring s'o,s,
&C must never forget then lodging \ few
boards, flung eareessly OVER couple Of rails, and
no litter beneath, Is not III. sott Of bed for
hog. \ place II .niiablc SIZE, large rather than
small, we'll sheltered every side. covered with
roof that lets III no wet or snoe. No opening,
except a door way hie enough for hog to go in
and the floor constantly wcll bedded with leaves
of,recs, dry, OF, which is the best thing, and what
hog deserves, plenty Of dean sron.-When |
maet up my hog's lodgin. place iot winter, look
well at IT, and consider, whether, upon pinch,
could ior once and away, make shift 10 lodge in i,
my self il ,hirer al he thought the place i.
no, GOOD enough for my hogs Iii, not in the ma
turc OF hog 10 sleep III the cold Look a, them
You viii SEE them, If they have the means, oortr
Msm'irts ora for the night TIN. is what i,
zone D, neither horse, COW, sheep, dog, nor cat.
A nd this should admonl US 10 provide hogs with
warm and comfortable lodging Their sagacty in
,ldlng against cold IN the night. when they have
II IN their power TO make such provision, is quite
wonderful. lou sec them looking about iol the
warncst spot then they 20 to work raling up the
litter as 10 break the wind of and when they
have done their beat they lie down. had SOW
that had some pigs running abou, it'll her in April
last There Was place open to her on each side
Of the barn. One faced the East and the other the
West; and, | observed, that she sometimes took
to side and sometimes to the other. One eve
ming her pigs had gone to bed on the Last side She
was out eating al it begun to grow dusk. saw
her 20 in to her pigs, and va. surprised to see
her ont again; and, therefore, looked a
little 10 scc what she Nas after There Was
high heap Of dung in the front OF the barn to
the South Size walked up 10 the top of it, ras-
cd her nose, turned II, very slowly, Two or three
times, from hr noIth east to the north west and
back again, and at last, it settled at abou, south
east for l,. BIT. She then came back ,..,,
marched away very has, 10 nor ph,, reused them
up in great hustle, and away she ,ramped with
them at her heel, to the place on the west sid. Of
the barn, There was so lltlc wind, that could
noltcllwhlei' way II blew, ill llook up some leaves,
and tossed them into the air. then found, that
it came from the precise point which her nose had
settled AZ. And thu, was ! convinced, that she
had como out TO ascertain which way the wind
came, and finding it likely make her young one,
cold in the night, she had gone and called them w,
though it was nearly dark and taken them of to
4 more comfortable berth. Was ,l,. an n,tinctir<.
or Wa, II a reasoning proceeding! At any rate.
le, no, treat such animals as if the. were stocks
and stones.