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perfect and bed-formed males and females of the feveral breeds, and carefully 

 raifing the flock from them. Thqfe intended to be kept as fows and boars mould 

 be conflantly well fed from the ruff, as where they are pinched for food they are 

 never fo fine or healthy afterwards. 



The breeds of hogs, like thofe of other animals, fhould be provided according 

 to the nature of the keep. Where it is abundant, or cultivated folely for the pur- 

 pofe of the raifing of pigs, the large breeds will moftly be found the moft advan 

 tageous, as the differencein the proportions between the living and the dead pro-- 

 fitable weight is laid by fome to be always the lead in the largefl-fized animals.* 



It is of the utmoft importance, in the management of fvvine, both in the view of 

 economy in the labour of their attendance, and the raifing of a large proportion of 

 manure, as well as the advantage of the hogs, to haveconvenient flies or piggeries. - 

 The methods of conflructing thefc, with the greateff advantage in thefe different 

 refpe&s, have been defcribed. It is remarked by Mr. Young, that a piggery &quot;mufb 

 be in a circle, or it mufl fail in convenience. In the centre, the boiling or (learning- 

 houfe,with a granary for corn,meal,bran,&c.; a range of ciflerns indivifions around 

 it, for receiving immediately from the copper or fleam apparatus, and alfo by tubes 

 from the granary ; around thefe a path, then the fence, wall or paling, in which 

 the troughs, with hanging lids, for fupplying food -directly from the ciflerns oa 

 one fide, and for the hogs feeding on the other; a range of yards next, and another, 

 of low fheds beyond ; and lafl of all, the receptacle for the dung. The potatoe 

 ftores (pyes as they are called) fhould be at one end or point near to the entrance, 

 and water muft be raifed to the coppers and ciflerns at once by a pump ; a trough 

 or other conveyance from the dairy to the ciflerns, for milk, whey. &c. Such an 

 arrangement will be very convenient, and the expenfe need not be confiderable. To 

 annex a certain fpace of grafs, or artificial grafTes, in divifions, into which the hogs 

 may be let at pleafure, is an addition of admirable ufe if the fpot permit it. Thofe 

 who do not poflefs a convenient pig-apparatus can have little idea of the great 

 ufe of it in making manure. This alone becomes an object that would juflify any 

 good farmer in going to a certain expenfe for attaining fo profitable a part of what 

 Ought to be his farm-yard fyflem. In nine tenths of the farmeries in the king 

 dom it is lamentable to fee fo many parts of a right piggery fcattered and uncon* 



* Knight in Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. II* 



