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corn-meal and barley-meal, with, occasionally, in winter, 

 roots.' 



" It will be seen that the food-house is the receptacle of 

 these kinds of food. The Windsor troughs, with swing 

 doors, push back, and shut out the pigs while the solid 

 food is put into the troughs, and one key locks up the 

 whole. The whey is laid on to all the troughs from four 

 large whey-cisterns in the buttery, and one hundred pigs 

 are, all summer, daily fed with as many gallons of whey 

 per meal, in one minute, by simply lifting a valve. By 

 this plan is pig-feeding made easy, and they get properly, 

 instead of laboriously and irregularly, fed. The iron 

 gates are provided for enabling to cleanse and straw the 

 sties. The rain-water goes off by a drain, and the liquid 

 manure passes to the ' tank,' from which it is drawn by 

 drain, at pleasure, into a liquid manure cart, in the middle 

 of a ten-acre meadow. The fowls are over the food-house, 

 the floors of which are flags, but are equally adapted for 

 boards." 



These plans are given merely for the purpose of fur- 

 nishing useful hints. Each farmer must determine for him- 

 self what kind of pig pens are best suited to his wants 

 to his location, system of feeding, etc. But whatever 

 plan he may adopt, he should recollect that dryness, 

 warmth, and good ventilation, are absolutely essential to 

 the best success in pig feeding. 



There is one point in Mr. Mangles' plan that is worthy 

 of consideration, and that is, the " beaten soil " for the 

 floors of the pens, and the stone drain, three feet deep, 

 under the pens, to carry the drainage to the liquid manure 

 pit. Where such thorough drainage is provided, there 

 can be no doubt that earth floors, beaten hard, answer a 

 good purpose, and save much expense. When the floors 

 are made of plank, they soon get worn in holes, and the 

 liquid soaks through the joints; and if not ultimately 

 lost, we loose the use of it for several years, or until the 



