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An ample supply of good drinking water should be kept 
ame the reach of every animal. al. 
VITHE PIGGERY. 
In constructing a piggery, reference should be had to the 
comfort of the animals as well as to convenience in feeding 
them. It should be large, airy, and well-ventilated, and should 
have (at least in a large establishment) conveniences for cook- 
ing their food. It should by all means be comfortable and clean. 
It has been generally believed that the hog is naturally a filthy 
animal, delighting in mud and mire. This is certainly, in part 
at least, untrue. No animal more fully appreciates a clean, dry 
bed. To illustrate the value of cleanliness, a gentleman in 
Norfolk (England) put up six pigs of almost exactly the same 
weight, and all in equal health to fatten; treated them all, 
except in one particular, exactly alike, giving equal quantities 
of the same food to each for seven weeks. Three of these pigs 
were left to shift for themselves, so far as cleanliness is con- 
cerned, while the other three were carefully curried, brushed, 
and washed. The latter consumed, during the seven weeks, 
less food by five bushels than the former, and yet, when killed, 
weighed more by thirty-two pounds nn an average. [For a 
plan for a piggery, see ‘The House.”] 
