EXT to the Dairy the Piggery is the most in- 

 teresting feature of Valley View Farm. With 

 its buildings and its pastures the Piggery takes 

 up about forty acres. During the spring, sum- 

 mer, and early fall all except the very young pigs roam 

 at large over the hills and through the woods of their 

 pasture land. Twice a day, summoned by the call of 

 their keeper, they rush down the hillside, pushing, strug- 

 gling, and squealing, to the feeding-trough of their par- 

 ticular pasture. The entire number of pigs on the Farm 

 runs often as high as eighteen hundred Yorkshires. Each 

 pasture contains but sixty or seventy. A strange and 

 amusing spectacle, indeed, is this of the sixty or more pigs 

 of each pasture tearing down the hillside and crowding 

 to their stalls, squealing and grunting lest one or another 

 may get there first. And quite as ludicrous is the sight of 

 the pigs at the trough, struggling for food as if there were 

 not enough for all. 



The sheds in which the pigs are housed are sanitary, 

 well ventilated, and thoroughly painted or whitewashed. 

 These one-story barns are almost one thousand feet long, 

 and contain hundreds of pens, each ten feet square, eight 

 on each side of the centre aisle, and as many more down 

 the side aisle. The feeding-troughs are iron, and over 

 each runs a pipe which conveys the skim milk from the 

 tank which receives it from the Dairy. 



As only clean, dry sawdust, that is changed daily, is 

 used for bedding, and as the pens are kept carefully 

 whitewashed and cleaned daily, the pigs, which by 

 nature are more cleanly even than dogs, cows, or horses, 

 are kept in an extremely clean condition. 



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