CONTRIVANCES FOB FEEDING. 



nient markets render easy the disposal both of fat and lean stock. 

 There are seven sties at the end of the steaming-house which accom- 

 modate a boar and six brood sows, which are calculated to produce 

 yearly one hundred pigs, sixty of which will be fattened from Sep. 

 tember to April in fifteen sties, placed in two parallel rows, and made 

 to contain two hogs in each apartment. The rest are sold as stores. 

 The yearly rental is from 200/. to 250 according to the prices of 

 the produce. The steamed food consists of potatoes and meal, with 

 grain to finish, and is conveyed to the sties along a paved road or 

 path, in a small four-wheeled wagon. The steamer also cooks pota- 

 toes for the working horses, and chaff for milch cows, and thus applies 

 the original cost to several purposes, and fully employs a man. The 

 store pigs are fed in summer with clover and vetches, artd in winter 

 with roots either raw or steamed. Water is brought to the steam- 

 ing-house in a pipe from the farm-yards, which are all supplied by 

 ball-cocks from elevated casks fed by a forcing-pump. A pipe under- 

 neath conveys the water from the potato-washer to the pond in the 

 store-yard, where it passes to the lower curve of the yard, and then 

 meeting with the collected moisture of the whole area of the pig- 

 gery, falls through an iron grate into a paved culvert, and is conveyed 

 to the manure-pit, to which the liquid of the farmery is Collected and 

 brought by a drain ; along the side of the road are sheds opening 



ike this will 



into the store-yard. The cost of erecting a piggery li 

 vary from 80. to 100Z., according to the price of labor and mate- 

 rials, and to whether the roofs be tiled or slated. The steaming- 

 house has an upper floor to serve as a store-house for grain, meal, 

 roots, &c. 



The piggery should always be built as near to that part of the 

 establishment from which the chief part of provision is to come as 

 possible, as much labor will thus be saved. If the dairy is to supply 

 this, let it be as near as may be to that building ; or if it is to come 

 from a brewery or distillery, then let it be near to them. 



Care must also be taken to preserve the dung and urine, and some 

 place fixed in which these matters can be stored for manure. Wher 

 ever the swine are regularly and well managed, this will not be diffi- 

 cult, for the animals will always, if they can, lay their dung at a 

 distance from the place where they sleep or feed. A small paved 

 yard, somewhat sloping, and with a gutter to serve as a receptacle, 

 will best answer this purpose, and thence it can be daily removed to 

 the proper heap or tank. 



We have been told of a gentleman who keeps only a few pigs for 

 his own use, and has a double sty for them, by which means he is 

 enabled to keep them exceedingly clean and sweet. Every morning 

 the pigs are changed from one into the other, so that each sty 

 remains unoccupied for four-and-twenty hours, during which time it 

 is thoroughly cleaned out, and of course becomes well aired, and free 



