464 FARMING FOR LADIES, [chap, xxill. 



the trough, the attendant may add any in- 

 creased quantity of milk or flour to the ani- 

 mals to be first fattened. If not used for that 

 purpose, it is notwithstanding a good con- 

 trivance for thus forcing each to eat sepa- 

 rately, without allowing them to fight with 

 each other, and smear themselves by putting 

 their feet into the trough. Pigs are indeed 

 so greedy, that the strongest will drive the 

 weak ones from their food, in consequence of 

 which they become so stunted as not to be 

 worth rearing ; but with separate snout-holes 

 these master-pigs are deprived of their supe- 

 riority. It is therefore no bad plan to make 

 similar holes for their heads in the paling of 

 their yard, and place the common trough out- 

 side. The holes may be covered by a swing 

 door, to screen the trough, and the food thus 

 presented to them at pleasui-e. 



