50 The Large White Yorkshire Pig. 



plaster, and slated roofs well rendered. Such places were 

 found very easy to keep perfectly clean and sweet. In the 

 farrowing boxes places were provided in the corner where the 

 young pigs could be fed separately from the mother, and of 

 course rails 8 in. from the wall and floor to prevent the sow 

 from lying on her pigs. 



The stock boars were fed much the same as the old sows, 

 but they were kept in separate cotes away from other pigs. 

 The show boars lived in roomy houses out in the fields, 150 

 3'ards or more from all other buildings. These pigs were 

 turned to exercise every day in the field in which their box 

 was situate, the younger boars being kept in separate adjoining 

 cotes with small paddocks near by, into which they could be 

 turned for four or five hours daily. With the foregoing 

 system it was found that one man could look after a con- 

 siderable number of pigs, as having all the female, and the 

 male pigs under four and a half months old, running in open 

 yards no cleaning out was necessary ; they were bedded down 

 with the long straw that was daily taken out of the boxes that 

 contained sows with litters, or boars, the manure being 

 periodically cleaned out of the yards. 



It is not possible to secure success unless the greatest care 

 is taken in regard to minutest detail as well as to the broader 

 points, and these few notes have been penned in the hope that 

 they may be of some slight service to those interested in the 

 improvement of our native breeds of pigs. 



Stuart Heaton. 



Estate Office, Mount Coote, 



Kilmallock, Co. Limerick. 



