734 -LiveStock. Swine Proper Management of. 



netted, in fuch a manner as to preclude convenience, increafe labour, and prevent 

 the making of dung.*&quot; 

 .It is added that, &quot; with fuch a convenience, all the peafe, beans, barley, buck- 



* -In a hoggery, built by the author in 1/65, nearly, but not exactly, on this idea, the expenfes were 

 as below : 



L. s. d. 



The boiling-houfe 38 18 



Copper 13 .0 



Pond 400 



Pump 1 10 O 



Citterns - 14 



Shed 6 15 G 



Paling - - 770 



.Paving - 10 



Troughs - - - 300 



Total, befules timber, . 78 JO 



^y means of one of thefe yards he fattened eighty-eight hogs in fpring 17 G6, with^only one raan 

 to attend them ; whereas three would not have been fufficient without fuch conveniences. They 

 , *vere littered with nine loads of ft raw and haulm that coft tl. 18s.; and thi* made ninety loads of 

 very rich duijg, valued by feveral farmers on the fpot at 5s. a load. 



. f. d. 



Value of dung at that rate 23 10 



-Straw, &c. - 6 18 O 



Profit indung - . 16 12 



* But it is obferved that they had not half the litter they ought, or they would have made 351. worth 

 *f manure, beyond doubt, 



Ninety loads coding 61. 1 8s. is Is. 6d. per load. 



Thefe particulars, furely, (fays he,) mull prove the vail importance of fuch conveniences for 

 fattening a great number of fwine, for the mere purpofe of raifmg manure. Suppofe theexpenfe, tim- 

 ier included, to be 1 101. and the intereft called 51. what comparifon is there between the expenfe of 

 51. a year, and the prodigious utility of having it always in your power to fatten, with fcarcely any 

 expenfe of labour, whatever number of hogs you pleafe ? 



&quot; The total expenfe,at prefent, of fuch yards would not be lefs than 1501. and if made conformably 

 to the more correct idea, -would be 2001. or 2501, But the governing idea of pofilion fhould be followed 

 in fties of 201.&quot; 



