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at either end to hook a swingle-bar to, and one horse can shift it anywhere. 

 It costs about £9 to make, complete. To preserve it in good order, it must, 

 say once a year, be painted externally, and not allowed to stand too long in 

 one position. 



Troughs. 



Feeding pigs with slop food is most easily dune in troughs, and, uu- 

 doubtedly, these should be well made. They should be so strong that the 

 pigs cannot break them up, but not so cumbersome and heavy that one man 

 cannot lift them about to clean out occasionally. Smaller separate troughs, 

 in a yard where there are a number of pigs to be fed, are preferable to one 

 large trough, where the pigs crowd and jostle each other for the feed. Some- 

 times a large platform, with a deep gutter all round, is laid down, the feed 

 tumbled into the gutters, and the pigs haul it out on to the platform to feed. 

 This style is very suitable where a large number have to be fed at one time. 



The ordinary trough for the sty may be made of various materials, but, 

 like the floors, they should be impervious and easily cleaned. Square and 

 sharp corners should be avoided, and if this is attended to the pig will clean 

 out its o\n\ trough. 



Fig. 21. Mould for casting Concrete Troughs. 



Concrete, comiwsed of bricks, stone, gravel, or such like, broken up to a 

 %-inch gauge, mixed with cement mortar, makes capital troughs. All that 

 is necessary is to have a mould — such as is showm at Fig. 21 — the stone, sand, 

 cement and water, and a handy man can make a trough at any time he 

 may have a spare hour at a cost of Is. 6d. 



If coarse, clean sand, mixed witli about one-third its bulk of finer sand, 

 and using three parts of this to one part Portland cement, no stone will be 

 necessary. 



Ax\, at Fig. 21, shows a rough platform (which would not be necessary if 

 a floor was available) to set the mould on. This mould is made of li/4-inch 

 pine sides and ends, the latter set into the sides in wedge-shaped grooves, as 

 at FF, and held together by J-inch bolts and nuts at E. A wedge is 

 inserted behind the end pieces at F to keep them in position and to enable 

 the mould to be m.ore easily- taken to pieces when the cement is set. 

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