476 FARMING FOR LADIES, [chap. XXIV. 



convenient size, and bounded by a low pal- 

 ing. The whole building may be constructed 

 of timber at very trifling cost, but both the 

 yard and the sty should be floored with tiles 

 or slates, with a little declination to carry 

 ofT the water. 



On the feeding of stores and porkers we 

 have said all that we deem necessary ; and 

 respecting the sow, we have only to add — that 

 besides the food given to stores, she should, 

 during the whole period of nursing her brood, 

 have an abundant supply of the kitchen and 

 dairy wash, mixed up with pollard or the 

 coarsely ground meal of any kind of grain or 

 pulse ; and, in the course of the day, a sub- 

 stantial feed of boiled or steamed potatoes, 

 given dry and warm, together with any sort of 

 refuse roots found in the garden. Such offals 

 will, indeed, go far towards the support of a 

 sow of any small-sized breed with a moderate 

 quantity of meal ; as, although having enough 

 of food, she is not intended to be made fat : 

 but it is a very great, though common, mis- 

 take, to suppose that she should be sparingly 

 fed, for she has a heavy drain to supply for 

 the nurture of her little ones, and if that be 



