HOG 



HOP 



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a cold and wet lodging ; nnore 

 hurtful than many people are ready 

 to imagine. 



Although there should be a part 

 of the sty, planked and boarded and 

 warm, covered from rain and sun, 

 and amply supplied with litter, yet 

 the greater part of it should have 

 no wooden floor. The trough in 

 which pigs are fed should be tirmly 

 fixed to the floor, so that they may 

 not overset it, and it is very impor- 

 tant that the divisions of a pig-stye 

 be so numerous, that pigs of near- 

 ly equal size and strength only 

 should be permitted to feed togeth- 

 er, otherwise the more powerful 

 will exclude the others, and mate- 

 rially stint their growth. 



The more comfortably hogs are 

 kept, the less nourishment they re- 

 quire. The trough should be on 

 the upper side covered with one 

 or more lids, and upright pie- 

 ces set before it at such distances 

 that one hog only can put his head 

 between any two of them. If six- 

 teen hogs are to be kept in the 

 same sty, it should be thirty-two 

 feet long and twelve wide, and the 

 apartments should be so divided, 

 that too many of the animals may 

 not be forced to lie together. And 

 it would, probably, be well to di- 

 vide likewise the feeding apart- 

 ment. Posts should be set up in 

 the sty for the hogs to rub them- 

 selves. If thirty -two hogs are to 

 be kept or fatted, perhaps the bet- 

 ter way is to have two hog-stys of 

 the dimensions last described, pla- 

 ced together with a roof over the 

 whole, and a passage between 

 them for the purpose of carrying 

 food to the troughs. 

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The upper part of the sty, or 

 some part of it may be appropria- 

 ted to storing the different articles 

 of food, which are wanted for feed- 

 ing the animals, and it would be 

 well to have a steam boiler beneath 

 the same roof. If a part of the 

 roof be made to extend considera- 

 bly beyond the sty, it will afford a 

 cover for forming a heap of com- 

 post with the dung of the swine. 

 See Farmer'' s Assistant, Art. Hog- 

 sty. 



HOP, Humulus, a narcotic plant 

 of the reptile kind, the'^flower of 

 which is an ingredient in beer,ale, 

 &c. As I have not had much ex- 

 perience in hops, I shall give an 

 account of the management of 

 them, chiefly abstracted from the 

 Complete Farmer, and abridged. 



A rich, deep, mellow, dry soil, 

 rather inclining to sand than clay, 

 is best adapted to the cultivation of 

 hops. A black garden mould is 

 excellent. 



The ground should be ploughed 

 very deep, or dug with a spade, re- 

 duced to a fine mould by repeated 

 ploughing and harrowing, and laid 

 even. 



When the ground is in proper 

 readiness for planting, let a line be 

 stretched on a straight side of a 

 field, with knots or rags in it,as far 

 asunder as you design your hills 

 shall be ; and stick in the ground 

 a sharp pointed stick at every knot, 

 as marks for the places where the 

 hills are to be made. Remove the 

 line to such a distance as to make 

 the hills equidistant both ways; 

 and so on through the whole 

 ground. 



The distance of the hills should 



