4 HAREIS ON THE PIG. 



sons who have only a garden or small place, should have 

 a pig pen, with a small yard attached, into which all the 

 refuse material of the garden can be conveniently thrown 

 such as the clippings of the lawn, weeds, potato tops, 

 pea and bean haulm, leaves, coal ashes, the loose dirt that 

 is raked up in the garden beds, alleys, and walks, and the 

 thousand and one things that we denominate rubbish. 

 The whole of it should go into the yard attached to the 

 pig pen. This is a much better way of disposing of it, 

 than endeavoring to make a " compost heap." With such 

 a yard, there never need be any trouble in determining 

 where the materials in the wheel-barrow should be emptied. 

 You have always a place for all rubbish that is lying 

 around loose, and it will be an easy matter to keep the 

 premises neat and clean. 



" But oh, the smell !" exclaims a gentleman who let his 

 Irish coachman keep a pig, "I cannot endure it." True; 

 but this is the fault of the man, and not of the pig. A" 

 respectable, well brought up pig is the cleanest of all our 

 domestic animals. Let him be washed once a week, and 

 let plenty of dry earth, or soil of any kind, be scattered 

 freely and frequently about the pen and yard, and all 

 trouble from this source will cease, and the pig, if well 

 bred, and well fed, will become one of the most popular 

 features of the establishment, and he will be profitable 

 also. He will pay in using up the refuse from the house 

 and from the garden ; pay in delicious hams, spare-ribs, 

 and tenderloin ; pay in firm, white, sweet lard ; and, above 

 all, he will pay in furnishing a large, rich compost for the 

 garden, which, with the addition of a little superphos- 

 phate and guano, will pay double and treble in the 

 abundance of crisp vegetables and well developed fruit. 



The main point in managing a pig pen in such a case is, 

 to furnish an abundance of earth to keep it clean. The 

 pigs will root it over and mix it with the manure. The 

 earth, especially if of a sandy nature, will at once favor 



