. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. Ch. THE PIGGERY. 529. They are in fact found to fatten more speedily, and consequently upon less food, in those styes than in the common ones in which tliey can turn about, Tliis is attributed to their quietude ; and it is said that hogs half fat—weighing 70 lbs.—when put into one of these cages, may he brought to double their weight witliin twenty-eight days*: they have been known, when fed upon barley-meal and water, to increase at the rate of 15 lbs. per week. On tin's subjec
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. Ch. THE PIGGERY. 529. They are in fact found to fatten more speedily, and consequently upon less food, in those styes than in the common ones in which tliey can turn about, Tliis is attributed to their quietude ; and it is said that hogs half fat—weighing 70 lbs.—when put into one of these cages, may he brought to double their weight witliin twenty-eight days*: they have been known, when fed upon barley-meal and water, to increase at the rate of 15 lbs. per week. On tin's subject a comparative experiment is recorded in the Sussex Report to have been made by Lord Egremont upon some porkers, all of one breed, and as nearly as possible of the same size—but not weighed ; seven of which were put up to fatten on the 25lh of February upon barley- meal, of which they had as much as they could eat, and another of the same brood which had not been put to fatten, as being smaller than the others, was put into a cage on the 4tii of March, at which time he weighed 11 st. 11 lbs. He was sulky for the first two days, and would eat nothing; but he then came to his appetite, and from thence until the 13lh of April— when they were all killed—he had just two bushels of barley-meal, with about eight bushels of potatoes, and weighed, alive, 18 st. 3 lbs. When slaughtered,"his dead-weight was 13 st. 2 lbs.—8 lbs. to the stone—and none of the other seven reached more than 12 st. 3 lbs.: thus showing that the superiority evinced by the caged pig could only have arisen from the mode adopted. DISEASES. The pig is by no means so untractable as generally represented ; for, if used with kindness, he would be found as amenable as most other animals; and much of his apparent indocility arises from the harsh treatment to which he is exposed. Tiie accusation of liis inclination to filth is also much exaggerated; for altliough he certainly rolls occasionally in the
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