CHAP. XXIV.] FARMING FOR LADIES. 475 



easily managed ; a fatting-hog, being always 

 shut up for fattening, requires no yard, nor 

 any building larger than itself. 



The covered sties necessary for a sow and 

 her brood, together with a few porkers, and 

 a bacon-hog, may be conveniently arranged 

 under a roof of twelve feet square, one half 

 of which should be allotted to the sow, and 

 the remainder to the hog and porkers. The 

 enclosure should be nearly breast high, so as 

 to guard the pigs from wind, and the roof 

 should be low at the eaves, to secure them 

 from rain ; but air should never be excluded. 

 It is very customary to leave one side of the 

 sty open, in order to allow the pigs the free use 

 of both it and the yard ; and this, when the sty 

 is completely roofed, may not be wholly ob- 

 jectionable. A better mode, however, is to 

 board up that side nearly to the roof, leaving 

 a door hung with hinges upon a cross-joist, 

 instead of an upright frame, so as to allow it 

 to swing backwards and forwards ; by which 

 means the pig — which soon learns the way — 

 opens and shuts the door at pleasure, by 

 merely pushing its snout. The uncovered 

 part, which forms the yard, may be of any 



