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be about six feet wide, should be close and warm For the 

 Hogs to lie in. Here they should have a constant supply 

 of dry litter, when the weather is cool ; for it is an essential 

 point to keep them comfortable, The front part of the sty, 

 which would then be about ten feet wide, should have the 

 floor descending to one side for the urine to run off, and in 

 order that the lower side may be the repository of their 

 excrement; and on this side should be an opening wide 

 enough to scrape it out. 



The trough should be on the upper side, covered with 

 one or more lids ; and upright pieces should be set before it, 

 at such distances apart as that one Hog only could put his 

 head between any two of them, in order that, while feeding, 

 the weaker animals should be protected against the stronger. 

 The whole should be covered with a roof; for it is essential 

 that they be protected from storms, while they are in the 

 outer or feeding apartment. 



According to the foregoing, if sixteen Hogs are to be 

 kept or fated in the sty, it should be thirty-two feet long 

 and twelve wide, and in that case there might be a sleeping 

 apartment at each end. These apartments should again be 

 subdivided, in order that, for the quiet of the animals, par- 

 ticularly in fating, too many may not be forced to lie to- 

 gether. It would probably be best also to divide the feeding 

 apartment ; for too many Hogs kept together are not apt to 

 enjoy that peace ami quiet which is necessary to their fating 

 well. Posts should also be set up in the sty for the Hogs 

 to rub themselves. 



If thirty- two Hogs are to be kept or fated, then, perhaps, 

 the better way is, to have two stys, of the dimensions last 

 described, placed together, with a roof over the whole, and 

 a passage between them for the purpose of carrying food to 

 the troughs. 



The upper part of the sty, or some part of it, may be 

 appropriated to storing the different articles of food which 

 are intended for feeding or fating. It would be well also to 

 have the steamboiler under the same roof. 

 For a description of this, see SWINE. 



If a part of the roof extended considerably beyond the 

 sty, it would afford a convenient cover for forming a heap 

 of compost from the dung of the Swine. 



HOGS. See SWINE. 



HOLLOW-DRAINS. These are made for the purpose 

 of making land sufficiently dry, where it is naturally too 

 wet for any good culture. At the same time, they are cal- 

 culated, permanently, to enrich the soil ; as, by being thus 

 divested of its superabundant moisture, it is much easier 



