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SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



apartments where the blood is made into a kind 

 of black-pudding and sold to the poor. 



Behind all these are the sties for the hogs, 

 generally from 800 to 1000 in number, 

 which occupy a considerable range of well- 

 built sheds, about thirty feet deep, with the 

 roofs descending very low, and having the 

 entrance through low arches, before which is 

 an open space, the whole length of the yard, 

 and about twenty-four feet wide, in the centre 

 of which is a kind of aqueduct, built of stone 

 and filled with clean water, supplied from a 

 well at the end of the premises. — The hogs can 

 only put their noses into this water through 

 holes in the wall, which prevents their dirtying 

 it, as it passes through the whole division of 

 the yard. This is the only liquid given them, 

 and their food is maize or Indian corn, slightly 

 moistened and scattered at stated hours on the 

 ground, which, in the yard as well as the 



