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up, the rest of it up to the point of the gables of open 

 palings ; the other end is boarded, and a large space is 

 filled with Venetian blinds, or louvres. 



" The floor of the pens is of beaten soil ; a drain, 3 feet 

 deep, filled with stones, leads to the liquid manure pit. 

 The passage is laid with bricks, and the entrance is 

 flagged, and a cart can be backed up to take the manure 

 when the pig pens, or pits are cleaned out. I generally 

 let the pits get full of manure, and contrive to empty 



Fig. 43. SECTION OF COVERED POOD HOUSE OF TA.TTENHALL PIGGERY. 



them against the turnip season. They are soon emptied; 

 it takes one hand more than the ordinary force for filling 

 manure. 



" I whitewash the walls and partitions every year, and 

 the man keeps the passage swept and covered with saw- 

 dust. My troughs are iron, with many divisions, and 

 filled by hand from the passage. Each pit will hold five 

 or six porkers, or three bacon pigs." 



One of the most elaborate piggeries in England is that 

 at Tattenhall Hall, in Cheshire, forming a part of the 

 model farm buildings on a dairy farm of 330 acres, in the 

 occupation of Mr. George Jackson. The pig sheds are 

 each six feet high, and the feeding troughs, and the pas- 

 sage alongside them, are under cover. 



Figure 43 gives a section through the food-house, and 

 figure 44 a ground plan of the arrangement. 



w The floors of the pig-yards and the pig-sheds are of 



