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sow. In dividing off the pens begin on the bottom with a six 

 inch board. On the top of that lay a board flat, say twelve inches 

 wide, and then finish siding up. This gives a place on three 

 sides to protect the small pigs. The yards on the south are five 

 feet by sixteen, in which sows and pigs can, run at will. These 

 yards if not raised up and dry, should be floored. A house and 

 shed of this description will enable one to raise a litter of pigs 



Cook House. 



AAA hall 5 feet wide. 



BB Row of pens i; ft. square. 



CC Yards 5x16 feet. 



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early, which may be weaned at the age of eight weeks ; the 

 sows may then be bred again and another lot raised later in the 

 season. The first lot will make hogs weighing over three hun- 

 dred pounds by the first day of January following. The second 

 lot will be ready for market the next June. The best feed for 

 young pigs is rye, oats and corn mixed, ground and cooked. 

 If you wish to fatten hogs, whole corn is better than anything 

 else. 



TILE DRAINAGE. 



When I first began improving my farm, I cut many rods 

 of open ditch, three feet wide at top, two feet wide at bottom, 

 and two and one-half feet deep. This drained the sloughs 

 well. The land could be worked up to the ditch, and the ditch 

 kept well open in wet weather, but the first dry season the 

 edges crumbled, falling into the ditch, and by Fall it was half 

 filled up. This did not satisfy me, and to test tiling I put in 

 one hundred and fifty rods of tile three feet below the levQl 

 of the ground, filling in the old ditch with a plow. Forty rods 

 of this I put in six inch tile, one hundred and ten rods three 



