CHAP. I. 



ARRANGEMENT OF PIGGERY. 



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quality of the meat. Farrowing pens should always be provided where 

 pig-breeding is practised. Sows are so liable to lie on their young 

 during the first few days after birth that some protection is necessary, 

 and this is best obtained by running a bar round the sty sufficiently 



Fig. 224. Section of Piggery. 



high for the young pigs to creep under, and about a foot from the 

 outside wall. Fig. 223 illustrates Messrs. Musgrave & Co.'s mode of 

 erecting and fitting-up of piggeries. 



It is always desirable to place the feeding-trough altogether outside 



Fig. 225. Arrangement of a Piggery. 



A, movable wooden stages for pigs to lie upon ; B, cast-iron feeding troughs ; 

 c, mixing-tubs. 



the sty, as in the section of the piggery shown in fig. 224. The feed- 

 ing-troughs are so arranged in the front wall that by raising or lowering 

 a flap door the pigs can be admitted to, or shut off from, the troughs. 

 The flap doors, when hanging perpendicularly, shut the pigs from the 

 food, but when swung back and fastened by a button to the front of the 

 trough, permit the pigs to feed. There ought in every case to be a 

 passage (fig. 224, P) between the back wall and the interior division 



