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fitted up with pens as elsewhere described ; and, in the sequence of 

 rearing operations connected with stock, yearling-houses or hammels 

 for young stock. Should the dairy farmer not breed and rear his own 

 stock the accommodation named above will not be required, excepting 

 the cow-house or byre. But we should strongly recommend such 

 accommodation to be given on all dairy homesteads ; because although 

 one tenant might not breed and rear his own stock another might do so. 

 And indeed we would as strongly recommend the dairyman not to buy 

 his stock in the open market or from chance dealers, but to breed and 

 rear his own ; for this plan will yield him the highest satisfaction and 

 the largest profits. 



The next accommodation required in a dairy homestead is "the 

 piggery." This is essential on the majority of farms, as the pigs will 

 consume the skim-milk, butter-milk, whey, and general offal from the 

 farm, which there is sometimes a difficulty in otherwise getting rid of, 

 although where the dairy farm is near a manufacturing town there is 

 often an opportunity for selling the first two. It is, however, a point 

 often discussed, as to whether the highest profits are not to be obtained 

 by giving the skim- and butter-milk to pigs or calves ; we are inclined 

 to think that they are, and that therefore the dairy farmer should 

 always keep pigs. At all events a "piggery" should be set up ; and 

 in connection with or close to it a food store, and boiling-house for 

 the preparation of mashes, &c., for the use of the pigs and brood swine. 

 There should be a dung-pit not far away from, but not quite in 

 connection with, the piggery. 



Such is the accommodation with the addition of an extra house 

 for the purposes of an " infirmary," and if one for calving be given as 

 another extra, it will at times be found very useful on what may be 

 called the dairy part of a farmsteading. We have now to point out 

 that which will be necessary for the arable culture connected with the 

 dairy farm. Little, however, need be said upon this point, inasmuch as 

 it is, both in extent and character, very much the same as that already 

 described in connection with mixed husbandry, with the exception that 

 accommodation for fattening stock forms no part of it. There are the 

 engine-house to begin with the source of power and boiler-house, 

 placed close to and in connection with the threshing-barn, next to 

 which is the straw-barn. The machine-room will be near the engine- 

 room, so that power may be taken off at once to cut the roots, grind 

 the corn into meal, &c., and to do the varied work of the food depart- 

 ment for the horses and colts, and also for the cows. Next or near 

 this will be the food-stores, one of which will be devoted to roots, the 

 other to more valuable food. The hay-house will be next to the cart- 

 horse stable, near to which will be the .cart and implement shed and 

 store, the carpenter's shop, and general store ; and, outside of all, the 

 central or principal covered manure pit, with its attached liquid-manure 

 tank. 



These will make up the two great departments of the dairy farm 

 accommodation, but it will be observed that no space has been given 

 to the apartments required for the making of butter and cheese, or the 



