THE PIGGERY. 



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barrel, especially if you have any considerable number 

 of hogs to feed. 



COMFORTS. 



Keep clean troughs. 



Hogs need clean quarters as much as any domestic animal. 



A pig requires plenty of water in its food but not in its bed. 



Never have the chicken house over the pig pen ; they want a 

 place by themselves. 



Shelter from the hot sun in summer and the cold in winter. 

 The best summer shelter is a spreading tree. 



A little pains to sun-scald the troughs, if they get sour under 

 vill pay. If it be damp and 



the hogs' stomachs. 



It won't pay to have the little pigs 

 run out into the snow until they get 

 large and the weather is so warm that 

 the snow is leaving. There will be 

 nights and mornings when the pen 

 doors must be kept closed to hold the ^ 

 pigs and all the warmth in the build- *L L 

 ing. The swinging doors, shown in ^ 

 the illustration, have been used by 

 some and are said to work well; I have never tried them. 



Provide the hogs with wallows. The wallow is the hog's bath. 



When he plasters himself with mud he also imprisons lice and 



other vermin, which he rids himself of when he scratches himself 



clean against a tree or a fence stake. The hog will not drink from 



his wallow long after he is provided with 



*- ~~T;, pure water conveniently near. Wallows 



Ji should be drained frequently and quicklime 



J or diluted carbolic acid be thrown in them. 

 Don't lean over the fence to pour slop 

 into the pig's trough. The fighting pigs will 



. gng pgs w 



cause y u to s P in a good part of the slop, 

 ' anc i resting your weight on your abdomen 

 supported by a rail is not a healthful position. 

 Pass a trough through the pen into the other 



trough. And if you nail a board over the top of the first trough, 

 the pigs cannot stop it with their noses and waste the slop when 

 it is poured in. 



