The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-11-08

be increased. However, We are providing
for only one SOW, or u couple Of store pigs,
The cute. place should slope little towards
the door, for the facility Of cleaning. \
substantial vessel to hold wash and occasion.
ally water, should be one piece of furniture,
and the trough for the food another; and,
with a good litter of straw inside, the pig
house may be said TO be furnished.
OF the various breeds and cruss breeds OF
pigs, !. would be useless to say much thay
have been crossed in every direction, till
every feeder calls his pigs breed of his own;
and we are us wise after looking at fifty
alleged sorts, as IL we had seen only the last
half dozen. In one little treatise on the pig,
there are nearly thirty breeds and crossts
mentioned; and it every crUss were rOcog-
nized, there are feeders. In selecting pig
look for good square body and short legs
and head, and there will not be much amiss /;
for unless the pedigrces are regularly handed
down like those of horses, and grunieB are
named like racers, none will know Tom
Noke's improved Essex from Jem Styles i'm
proved Sussex and so Of the rest. A we'll
formed pig cannot be bad sort; judge for
yourself, therefore, and select one that can
he recommended by vendcr whom you
know. u you are going to keep them for
killing, buy two-thc sty is large enough to
accommodate them, unless they fight. Once
place them in possession Of their mansion,
and few good feeds will soon reconcile
them to their situation. As pigs are not
over-dainty in their food, all you have to
care for is, that however coarse, it is whole
some. Save for them the water that any
thing, even greens, is boiled in but the food
should not be sloppy, whetherit DO meal of
any Kind, or middlings, bran or. otherwise.
Let what apisturs YOU PIT toit-bc scalding-
hot, and do not make Il thn'; let it be of
the subsistence Of very thick hasty-puddinS,
such as the spoon will almost stand upright
in. Let the animal 90 to bis wash or water
trough for his drink. Grains from home
brewing are good for them but the ordinary
brewers grains hayelittle nsarishment.
II pigs can have run ON a common, give
them good meal the first thing in the morn
ing, and when they comeat night; they will
forage during the day, and thereby amuso il
they do not satisfy themselves. They will
never require to be fetched home, for the
comfortable meal and good bed will do
all that. While they are thus treated they
will grow, but not iatten much when you
resolve to do this, keep them in and give
them the midday meal. We are advocates
for changes of food, that is, changes from
peas to barleymeal or oatmeal, and rice rerso;
but when lattening, all their food should be
substantial (; whcat.mcal is excellent, that is,
with all the bran, husk, etc.. in it, just us it
leaves the mill. Potatoes boiled are good
but not more than one meal day should be
given, when getting ready for the knife. In
fact some whoarc in straitcned circumstances
make the pis live ON the waste of the garden,
and the run OF common, or roadside, and
give them hut one solid meal in the twenty
/ four hours and that is ON their return in the
evening. Where there isa good arm-yard
and plenty Of dung, and all the vegetable
waste is thrown, pigs will thrive greatly
what with the unfinished corn lett in the
straw, and the straw, and the numerous
pickiugs among all kinds OF collected waste,
they want but little other feeding; water
they require or drink from the wash-tub, and
/ little else.
The most proftablec mode Of keeping is to
grow your own provender. The ordinary
vegetable waste OF the garden will do a good
deal towards it, The chat or small potatoes
from your stock cannot be better applicd.-
The peas haulm, after gathering the crop, is
a great fayorite; and u feed OF good blrley-
meal, pollard middlings, or other grain or
meals once a day, besides the garden supply,
may do. As, however, the pig advances,
there may be two feeds a day of the substan-
tial food, and what he likes TO take Of the
vegetables. One OF these feeds may be Of
peas, when You come to the last four or five
weeks OF his life, and change the middlinss
to barley or oatmeal. The run OF the gSt
den vegetables, as sort Of midday meal III
! he has not got a run in other felds), pea,
the first thing in the morning, and Us much
meal Us he will take in the evening, will
bring on pig rapidly. The last fortnight
very little vegetable is to be given; but VT
must increase the peas to as many as he will
eat, and the same with the meal yet it is 4
good plan to change the barleymeal and cat
meal, or any other food of a similar nature
Care should be taken upon two or three
essential points (; for instance, all the veget-
able food will DO better for boiling, and
giving 1t warm, especially in the winter
months. The middlings, meal or pollard
should be scalded, and not made thin. The
wash should be given in another trough. and
and not mixed with his more substantial
food. Hs sty should be regularly cleaned
out /; his bed well supplied with straw, and
be made warm and comfortable; he shOult