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spot you want it, as often as you clean your 

 staTbles. The weather may be unfit, for in- 

 stance. On this account I would try to have 

 the manure-bed under cover ; and I would, 

 if possible, have abundance of water so near 

 by that you can wet the heap whenever you 

 find it needful. Stirring up can be done 

 clieaper by the pigs than in any other way. 

 Perhaps it may be well to state, before we 

 go further, that a good many might object to 

 the quality of the pork, providing the pigs 

 w'ere used simply as machines for making 

 manure. But, do not be in haste, dear 

 friends, to condemn our methods. When 

 you get ready to fatten a chicken, a pig, or a 

 " critter," you want to commence a system 

 of feeding, to produce nice meat. I believe 

 that corn-fed animals are considered worth 

 most in the market ; and friend Peirce, who 

 wrote our book on carp culture, once as- 

 sured me that the Jersey chickens, which 

 commanded a better price in New York, 

 Philadelphia, and Boston, than any other 

 chickens, owed their well-earned reputation 

 to the fact that, before being sent to mar- 

 ket, they were fed for several weeks on corn 

 diet exclusively. Even our new food fish, 

 the German carp, require some such treat- 

 ment to have it do its best as a table fish. 

 Well, if we are going to be obliged to keep 

 our pigs exclusively on corn for several 

 weeks, what shall we do with our refuse 

 matter meanwhile ? Why, my friend, you 

 want your pig-pen in two apartments, and 

 keep those animals which are under process 

 of fattening, in a separate apartment from 

 those used exclusively for manure-making. 



In fact, I have just bought two more pigs to- 

 day, to take the place of those that have not 

 had a particle of any kind of grain, or even 

 bran or middlings, for the past four months. 

 Now you see we are coming to the consider- 

 ation of the matter of pig-pens, poultry- 

 houses, cow-stables, and horse-stables. My 

 barn, stables, pig-pens, and poultry-house, 

 were all burned down last March, so I have 

 had an opportunity this summer of building 

 entirely new. When 1 began to consider the 

 subject in all its bearings, and to read the 

 books and papers treating especially on 

 these matters, I came to the conclusion that 

 it was a very important matter indeed to 

 have convenient buildings ; and as friend 

 Terry who wrote the Potato-book, and the 

 book on the winter care of horses and cattle, 

 lives less than forty miles from me, I wrote 

 him to come and help me plan my new barn 

 with the other buildings, and that I would 

 pay him well for his time and trouble. He 

 not only came promptly, but he brought an- 

 other man with him who is a prominent 

 teacher through the agricultural papers, in 

 the dairy-business. I mean Mr. Gould. 

 This gentleman is the one who writes for 

 the Ohio Farmer under the name of " Sam." 

 Mr. Terry sat down by the side of an experi- 

 enced builder, and, with the assistance of a 

 man who is also conversant with horses, we 

 fixed upon the plan which 1 illustrate by the 

 diagram below. The barn is now built ; and 

 so many judges have pronounced it the most 

 convenient barn and stable that "'ever was," 

 I feel that it may be a help to have you look 

 it over with me. 



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