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in every ten feet, is bounded outside along its entire 

 length by a pit, into which the bedding and excre- 

 ment are daily emptied. This is of course care- 

 fully roofed over, and in it are kept a number of 

 pigs (fed on green grass, chickweed, and poonac), 

 whose ' continual tramping on the entire mass of 

 bedding with their sharp-pointed hoofs, soon works 

 the whole into a rich and compact mass, easily 

 cut with the mammotie when required for use. 

 In order to keep the pigs in health, a consi- 

 derable quantity of bedding ought to be daily 

 thrown in ; and, if possible, clean spaces round 

 the sides should be provided for them to retire 

 to at night. 



Another plan, less satisfactory, is as follows : 

 The cattle-shed is a large oblong building, having 

 the floor excavated to the depth of say three feet 

 below the surface of the ground surrounding, bricks 

 being laid in and around this with the plastered 

 joints well coated with tar. Clean bedding being 

 laid well over the whole floor, the cattle are turned 

 in for the night (being allowed to graze out all 

 day), a supply of fodder having previously been 

 placed in racks round the sides. Every morning 

 the cattle are turned out to graze, and before their 

 return in the evening a fresh layer of dry bedding 

 sufficiently thick to keep them clean and comfort- 

 able when lying, and night fodder are provided, 



