7. Now, as to the mode of using the corn; if for poultry, you must rub the grains off the cob; but if for pigs, give them the whole ears. You will find some of the ears in which the grain is still soft. Give these to your pig first; and keep the hardest to the last. You will soon see how much the pig will require in a day, because pigs, more decent than many rich men, never eat any more than is necessary to them. You will thus have a pig; you will have two flitches of bacon, two pig’s cheeks, one set of souse, two griskins, two spare-ribs, from both which I trust in God you will keep the jaws of the Methodist parson; and if, while you are drinking a mug of your own ale, after having dined upon one of these, you drink my health, you may be sure that it will give you more merit in the sight of God as well as of man, than you would acquire by groaning the soul out of your body in responses to the blasphemous cant of the sleekheaded Methodist thief that would persuade you to live upon potatoes.
264. You must be quite sensible that I cannot have any motive but your good in giving you this advice, other than the delight which I take and the pleasure which I derive from doing that good. You are all personally unknown to me: in all human probability not one man in a thousand will ever see me. You have no more power to show your gratitude to me than you have to cause me to live for a hundred years. I do not desire that you should deem this a favour received from me. The thing is worth your trying, at any rate.
265. The corn is off by the middle of November. The ground should then be well manured, and deeply dug, and planted with early York, or EARLY DWARF CABBAGES, which will be loaved in the latter end of April, and may be either sold or given to pigs, or cows, before the time to plant the corn again. Thus you have two very large crops on the same ground in the same year.
INDEX.
| PARAGRAPH | ||
| Agur | [18] | |
| Bees | [160] | |
| Bread, making of | [77] | |
| Brewing Beer | [20], [108] | |
| See also “Postscript.” | ||
| Brewing-machine | [41] | |
| Brougham, Mr. | [41] | |
| Candles and Rushes | [199] | |
| Castlereagh’s and Mackintosh’s Oratory | [152] | |
| Combination Laws | [108] | |
| Corn, Cobbett | [258] | |
| Cows, keeping | [111] | |
| Cusar, Mr. | [86] | |
| Custom Laws | [108] | |
| Drennen, Dr. | [80] | |
| Dress, Household Goods, and Fuel | [199] | |
| Ducks | [169] | |
| Economy, meaning of the term | [2], [3] | |
| Education | [11] | |
| Ellman, Mr. | [20], [60] | |
| Excise Laws | [108] | |
| Fowls | [176] | |
| Geese | [167] | |
| Goats and Ewes | [189] | |
| Hanning, Mr. Wm. | [99] | |
| Hill, Mr. | [98] | |
| Hops | [202] | |
| Ice-houses | [236] | |
| Leghorn | [212] | |
| Libel Laws | [108] | |
| Malthus, Parson | [141] | |
| Mangel Wurzel | [254] | |
| Mustard | [198] | |
| Parks, Mr. | [98] | |
| Paul, Saint | [148] | |
| Peel’s flimsy Dresses | [152] | |
| Pigeons | [181] | |
| Pigs, keeping | [139] | |
| Pitt’s false Money | [152] | |
| Plat, English Straw | [208] | |
| Porter, how to make | [71] | |
| Potatoes | [77] | |
| Rabbits | [184] | |
| Salting Mutton and Beef | [157] | |
| Stanhope, Lord | [144] | |
| Swedish Turnips | [207] | |
| Turkeys | [171] | |
| Walter’s and Stoddart’s Paragraphs | [152] | |
| Walter Scott’s Poems | [152] | |
| Want, the Parent of Crime | [18] | |
| Wakefield, Mr. Edward | [78], [99] | |
| Wilberforce’s Potatoe-Diet | [152] | |
| Winchelsea, Lord. | [144] | |
| Woodhouse, Miss | [213] | |
| Yeast | [203] | |