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each should be kept scrupulously clean. The pig is a 

 cleanly animal in its own way, and, to use an Irish phrase, 

 " a well bred pig " will keep its apartments clean. Suck- 

 ing pigs have each its own teat, and were each provided 

 with a trough, they could be made to use them, and thus 

 feed separately. The manure, should never be allowed to 

 accumulate, but be cleaned out daily. 



Sheep-fold. The requirements of the shepherd depend 

 much upon the nature of his flock, and how it is kept. 

 For a breeding stock a portable shepherd's van is in many 

 cases required, in other cases a lambing hovel is provided. 

 In each caseprovision is required for newly-lambed ewes and 

 their followers when on the sick list. A stove is necessary 

 for warming cow milk for lambs, and stuffed hardies for 

 shelter in blowing weather ; troughs for corn, cake, roots, 

 and chaff are also required, covered hay- racks, &c. Chaff 

 may be cut at the homestead, but the mangolds and cake 

 should be given fresh, so that it is better to have them 

 milled in the hovel. For fattening and store stock on 

 turnips in the field, netting, troughs for corn, and hay-racks 

 are required ; and when the roots are stored and consumed 

 in the troughs, turnip -cutters are required. When on the 

 pastures in the summer time, a bottle of ointment for the 

 fly may be all that is needed. Sheep washing, dipping and 

 smearing involve other mechanical appliances, and at 

 shearing-time the shepherd requires sheep-shears, and a 

 stool, also a weighing machine for weighing the wool, corn, 

 and cake bins ; measures. One or more weighing machines 

 for livestock are desirable for testing the progress fatten- 

 ing sheep are making. 



Poultry -Yard. Poultry farming, whether for rearing 

 ard fattening fowls, or for the production of breeding- 



