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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...in size and value; and, in fact, is continually uppermost in the poor man's mind. If he observes but a few dry leaves blown into a ditch, he bags them, and brings them home for bedding; or he picks up a bundle of fern by the road-side; in short any thing which he can honestly lay his hands on will always be brought home, and he will never grudge any trouble of this kind. Besides, all this helps to make manure: and no manure is so rich as that which is taken from the pigsty. This animal is now, however to be well supplied.with food, and fattened against Christmas. The hog-tubs will now be had in requisition; and their great value will be properly appreciated, for there will be no necessity of messing every time the, pig wants a meal: with a portion of stale wash, and a few mashed potatoes, the pig will grow and do well till the end of September or beginning of October (potato digging time.) At this season, a sack of bartey meal should be purchased; and aboujt three or four pounds of this meal, with thirteen pounds of mashed potatoes, which, I will show may be set apart for that purpose, when I speak of the produce of the garden, being daily added to thicken the stale wash, will make excellent food; and, if the pig, has been well attended to during the summer, should not fall short of weighing fifteen score pounds by Christmas, to which time the food is calculated to last. (To be Continued.) For the New-York Farmer. Abt. CXXX.--Friendship between Pigeons and Martins. During a late excursion to Long Island, I was much amused by the social conduct of tame pigeons and domesticated martins towards each other. Different as they ar in ornithological character, they associated in the same box as completely as if they had been individuals of...