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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



In a word, in choosing a pig, you must consider your climate, yonr 

 means of feeding, and your market; whether you want sucking-pigs or 

 hobbledehoy pork. 



A, A, front; C, C, rear for pens: 5, 5. pens with alley between ; v, f, v, v. vats on level with 

 pens; 1, safety valve; 2, steam pipe ; 3, supply barrel to boiler; 6, boiler ;/, furnace ; 7^, plat- 

 form partly over boiler ; 4. chinmey ; t, drain"; w, water-cistern; g, door to cellar; «, s, stairs; 

 d, d, doors ; 6, C5, scuttles to cellar; y, y, yards to pens. 



HOUSES AND PIGGERIES.— An inclosure proportionate to the number 

 of swine which you intend to keep, and, if possible, so managed as to 

 admit of extending the accommodation, will be found the best for gen- 

 eral purposes. It should be provided with a range of sheds, so situated 

 as to be thoroughly sheltered from wind and weather, paved at the 

 bottom, and sloping outward. Kehitive to the paramount necessity of 

 cleanliness and dryness, let both inclosure and sheds possess the means 

 of beinnr kept so. In order to keep the sheds, which are designed as 

 sleeping places, in a dry and clean state, an inclination outward is 

 necessary ; a shallow drain should run along the whole of their extent, 

 in order to receive whatever wet flows down the inclined plane of the 

 sleeping huts; and provision should also be made for this drain to carry 

 off all offensive matters beyond the precincts of the piggery. 



The ground on which the piggery is established should likewise be 

 divided into two parts, bv a drain, which should run through it; and 

 toward this drain each section should slope. This the main drain should 

 be carried beyond the fold, and fall into a large tank or pit formed for 

 that purpose. The object in view is to keep the pig-fold and sties in 



