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hoggs are dipped witli the same wash as in summer, or are dressed 
with sheep-salve ; but the ewes are neither dipped nor dressed at 
this time of year. 
Pigs. 
A few breeding sows of a small white breed are kept ; and 
store-pigs, as required, are bought for the stubbles and foldyards. 
About thirty pigs are fed annually for home consumption, chiefly 
for the foremen who lodge the yearly servants. The food consists 
of boiled potatoes, with either barleymeal or peameal, generally 
commencing with the former and finishing with the latter. The 
average weight obtained is 25 stones. None are sold. Although 
Mr. Torr does not keep pigs as a source of profit, he some years 
ago thought enough about them to invent a pig-trough, which 
was patented by Messrs. Crosskill, and is well known and exten- 
sively used all over England. 
Cart-hokses. 
At Rothwell eleven horses are kept to work 400 acres of tillage- 
land, at Riby nineteen horses to work 610 acres, and at Aylesby 
twenty-two horses to work 700 acres ; making an average of about 
three horses to every hundred acres of tillage. They are a light 
active description of cart-horse — the strongest animals being kept 
at Aylesby, where the land is heaviest, and the worst at Rothwell, 
where the soil is very light. 
Horses are never turned out on the pastures, but in summer 
they are kept in the foldyards which are used by the cattle in 
winter ; they are fed on tares, chopped up with oat straw by the 
chaff-cutter, and an allowance of 2 bushels of ground corn per 
week. Each horse also has 1 lb. of oilcake per day ; this is dis- 
solved in the water-cans, and is used in that state to moisten the 
chopped food ; and whatever other alterations are made in the 
food at different times and seasons, the same quantity of oilcake 
is always given, and in the same manner. 
The corn in summer is crushed oats or barley, mixed with 
ground peas or ground Indian corn ; but in some years it has 
consisted principally of sprouted barley, at the rate of 1 peck of 
ordinary barley per day (making 1^ peck when sprouted). 
During the winter the horses are kept in stables, standing in 
pairs in 9-feet stalls, which are furnished with mangers, but no 
racks. They are fed upon chaff and the same quantity of corn as 
in summer, the only difference being that a larger proportion of 
oats is given. The chaff consists of one-fourth clover hay and 
three-fourths straw ; it is moistened with dissolved cake, as already 
described. 
The horses are generally bought for use on the farm as two- 
