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THE FARM. 



A Winter Piggery._The object sought in the erection of this piggery 

 is to secure a neat, clean, cheap and comfortable shelter for young pigs. The 

 structure is thirty feet long, six feet wide, five and a half feet high in front, 

 and four feet high at the rear. The roof slopes only one way, and projects 

 fifteen inches, to throw water away from the pens. First make the spot on 

 which it is to be built a foot higher than the natu- 

 ral surface, with stiff, good clay soil. Gravel 

 must be put on this several inches deep. Set 

 round white oak posts a few inches in the ground 

 at every comer of each pen or division. Nail on, 

 with double-ten nails, scantling, two by four 

 inches. Board up with vertical boarding, one by 

 twelve inches. Cover the roof of building with 

 the same material, and make slatted divisions for 

 the pens inside. Our illustration shows the trough 

 into which slops and water are poured from the 

 outside. These have a one-inch hole at one end, 

 with peg to let off siTrjjlus water in cleaning. A 

 piggery of this size will hold from ten to thirty, 

 according to size and age. It should be built 

 facing the south, so as to allow as much sunshine 

 as possible to enter the doors. Whitewash the 

 g" inner apartments for health; also the outside, 

 w which gives the structure a pleasant aj)pearance. 

 c The ornamental verge board is sawed out of one- 

 ^ inch plank a foot wide, and a one-inch auger hole 

 H put through the center of the figure, as shown in 

 ^ the cut. The rafters project a foot over the front, 

 ^ which proves a solid basis upon which to nail the 

 < verge board. A little Venetian red in some lime 

 is good to color the verge board, the comers and 

 doors. The dooi-s are made of open slat-work, 

 and are furnished with small chains for fastening, 

 and strap hinges. This piggery can be built for 

 about $35. 



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Will It Pay to Steam Fodder J_Taking the j 

 word fodder in its broadest sense, says the Ameri- 

 can Agriculturist, as any kind of food for gra- 

 nivorous animals, we may say that it will always 

 pay to steam or cook feed for swine, and often for 

 cows, in stables containing twenty-five head or 

 more, while for sheep and horses it Avill bo of 1 

 doubtful expediency, and iisually not advisable 

 under any circumstances. The cooking of feed 

 for fattening swine is so important as a mattfcr of 

 economy, that it will pay, even though done with 

 little regard to the saving of labor and fuel. On the other hand, to cook the 

 feed for neat cattle with profit, not only should there be animals enough to 

 make it pay, but the ratious nhould be so carefully planned, that by min- 

 gling of palatable, witli less relished and coarse fodder, a saving may bo ef- 

 fected in that way. Besides the object for which the cattle are kept, is ao 

 important factor to bo considered in the feeding. 



