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CONVENIENCES FOR SWINE. 



Room and ventilation are objects of the 

 greatest import, where numbers are kept, 

 and dry lodging, without which essentials, 

 success must not be expected. Nor are 

 swine, in whatever state, proof against 

 excessive cold, for I have known instances 

 of their being frozen to death in the sty, 

 and have always remarked that severe 

 weather materially checks their thriving, 

 unless they be sufficiently defended from 

 the chilling effects of the air. 



The STY, situated upon a dry foundation, 

 as well as sheltered above, should be 

 paved at bottom, to the end that it may 

 be kept clean and dry, the operation neces- 

 sary for which, should be daily performed, 

 for although pigs will wallow in the mire, 

 they are yet most thrifty in clean lodging. 

 As swine confined usually employ their 

 leisure in demolishing, with their teeth, the 

 wood work within their reach, the modern 

 cast-iron troughs are profitable ; at any 

 rate wooden troughs ought to be iron 



