Live Stock.—Swine~-Proper Apparatus for. 1193

it, for receiving immediately from the copper or fteam apparatus, and alfo by tubes. from the granary; around thefe a path, then the fence, wall or paling, in which the| troughs, with hanging lids, for fapplying food directly from the cifterns on one fide, and for the hogs feeding on the other; a range of yards next, and another of low fheds beyond; and laft of all, the receptacle for the dung.‘The potatoe ftores (pyes as they are called) fhould be at one end or point near to the entrance, and water muft be raifed to the coppers and cifterns at once by a pump; a trough or

other conveyance from the dairy to the cifterns, for milk, whey,&c. Such an ar-

rangement will be very convenient, and the expenfe need not be confiderable.‘To i annex a certain{pace of graf, or artificial graffes, in divifions, into which the hogs may be let at pleafure, is an addition of admirable ufe if the fpot permit it.‘Thofe i who donot poffefs a convenient pig-apparatus, can have little idea of the great ufe! of it in making manure. This alone becomes an object that would juftify any good farmer in going to a certain expenfe, for attaining fo profitable a part of what ought to be his farm-yard fyftem. In nine-tenths ofthe farmeries in the kingdom,| it is lamentable to fee fo many parts of a right piggery feattered and unconnected,

in fach a manner as to preclude convenience, increafe labour, and prevent the

making of dung*.”

* Ina hoggery, built by the author in 1765, nearly, but not exa@tly, on this idea, the expenfes were as

below; ee set ds i. The boiling-houfe° a sis} hited Ke): Copper. e 13()

Pond e* 4°

Pump A» hi 1 Oo

Cifterns>° I4°

Shed« 3 ea

Paling 4° Zea|

Paving 2’ 10° i

Troughs.° 3°| Total, befides timber,- e707 To. OS

By means of one of thefe yards he fattened eighty-eight hogs in{pring 1766 with only one man to attend them; whereas three would not have been fufficient without fuch conveniences. They were lit- tered with nine loads of ftraw and haulm that coft 6]. 18s.; and this made ninety loads of very rick a dung, valued by feveral farmers on the fpot at 5s. a load. Poa SORA| ig

Value of dung at that rate' gl 29). 10) 0| Straw,&c. é: 64,384 0

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Profit in dung, s: Mr BG) IR,| Ke: il q

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