HORSES AND OXEN". 4y^ 



I^ound a new piggery building by Mr. Havep.s, at 

 7 hekon, in which the most singular circumstance is the 

 sties for fatting, being single, for one hog, and so narrow 

 that iie cannot turn himself ; a range of these on one side 

 and a space tor cistern on the other, the whole near the 

 new dairy — perhaps, rather too near : a degree of vi- 

 cinity is necessary for the milk and whey to flow to the 

 cisterns, but the air around a dairy should be preserved 

 quite uncontaminated. 



Mr. Wiseman, at Happsborough, having occasion to 

 wean some pigs much too young, from the death of a sow, 

 or some otlier cause, tried boiled pease for them, and the 

 success was so great, that he would never enter largely 

 into breeding or fattening hogs without a furnace and cop- 

 per for boiling whatever corn might be given. 



Mr. Johnson, of Thurning, fattens with boiled bar- 

 ley, and by this means mad? one so fat that he was blind 

 from excess of fat. 



Mr. Reeve, of Wighton, every feature of whose 

 husbandry merits attention, condeinns a dairy stock as un- 

 profitable to a farm, in respedl of manuring : he once had 

 a large dairy, now only 26 cows, and a principal motive 

 for keeping so many, is the right application of it to sup- 

 porting a large stock of swine. 



' SECT. IV. — HORSES. OXEN. 



1792. Mr. Overman's arable, 523 acres: he keeps 

 21 horses. 



In the distridl of Holkham, 20 to 500 acres in one 

 farm, i6 to 5C0 acres. The larger the farm, generally 

 thw smaller the proportion, 



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