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have five apartments instead of four, and in the fifth or central one 

 to have a boiler to prepare the food, and chests and lockers to eon- 

 tain the various stores." 



Parkinson advises that in the yard or enclosure before every pig- 

 gery should be a " rubbing-post, or, what is still more beneficial, two 

 posts having a pole between them similar to a horse's leaping-bar, but 

 not revolving; this pole should be raised or let down to the height 

 of the pigs, as the rubbing of the animals against it causes a freer cir- 

 culation of blood, the same as the flesh-brush does to human bodies." 



In all large establishments there should be a proper apparatus for 

 cooking, mixing, and preserving the food. For this a boiler and 

 steamer will be requisite, and some two or three tanks which may 

 be made of bricks plastered over on the interior to prevent leakage, 

 and fixed in the ground. Wherever it can be managed, the troughs 

 should be so situated that they can be filled and cleaned from the 

 exterior without interfering with or disturbing the animals at all, and 

 for this purpose, the following very simple contrivance has been 

 recommended : " Have a flap or door with swinging hinges made 

 to hang horizontally over the trough, so that it can be moved to and 

 fro, and alternately be fastened by a bolt to the inside or outside of 

 the manger. When the hogs have fed sufficiently, the door is swung 

 inwards and fastened, and so remains until feeding-time, when the 

 trough is cleaned and refilled without any trouble, and then the flap 

 drawn back and the animals admitted to their food." Some persons 

 cover the trough with a lid having as many holes in it as there are 

 pigs to eat from it. This is by no means a bad plan, for then each 

 pig selects his own hole and eats away without interfering with or 

 incommoding his neighbor. 



We are indebted to the kindness of a friend for the following ac- 

 count of the Royal piggery, at the Home Farm at Windsor. It 

 consists of an oblong slated shed, of sufficient length and breadth to 

 contain about two dozen sties, of somewhat larger dimensions than 

 ordinary pig-sties, and arranged in two rows with a broad walk be- 

 tween them, from which the spectator looks into the sties on the 

 right and left of him. Each sty has an in-door and an out-door 

 apartment, the former having a wooden coverlid to it, going upon 

 hinges like the lid of a cornbin, instead of a roof, which may be raised 

 to any height in hot or close weather, so as to admit any influx of air 

 required, or even be thrown back if necessary. The sties are paved 

 with brick, both within and without, doors, and their floors slightly 

 declivitous. 



The following is a description of a piggery at Lascoed Pont Senny, 

 planned and executed by Mr. J. Donaldson, land steward to A. M. 

 Storley, Esq., Brecon, South Wales : This piggery is constructed 

 for the purpose of breeding and feeding on a scale to suit a farm of 

 ix hundred acres of turnip soil in an inland situation, where conve- 



