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tween the living and the dead profitable weight, is Said by Some to be always the least in the largest-Sized animals.

It is of'the utmost importance in the management of Swine, both'in the view of economy in the labour of their attendance, and the raising of a large proportion of manure, as well as the advantage of the hos; to have convenient Styes or piggeries. The'methods of constructing these, with the greatest advantage in these different respects, have been deseribed. It is remarked by Mr. Young, that a pig- gery“ must be ina eircle, or it must fail in convenience. In the centre, the boiling, orsteaming-house, with a granary for corn, meal, bran,&c.; a range of cisterns in divisions, around it, for receiving immediately from the COPpper or Steam apparatus, and also by tubes from the granary; around these a path, then the fence, wall or paling, in which the troughs, with hanging lids, for Supplying food lirectly ftom the cisterns on one Side, and for the hogs feeding on the other; a range of yards next, and another of low sSheds beyond; and last of all, the receptacle for the dung. The Potatoe Stores(pPyes as they are called) Should be at one end or point near the entrance, and water must be raised to the Coppers and cisterns at once by a pump; a trough or other conveyance from the dairy to the cisterns, for milk, whey, &c. Such an arrangement will be very convenient, and'the expense need not be very considerable. To annex a cer- tain Space-of grass, or artificial grasses, In divisions, into which the hogs may be let at pleasnre, is an addition of ad- mirable nse, if the Spot permit it. Those who do not POSSESS a plg-apparatus, can have little idea of the great use of it in making mänure. This alone becomes an object that would Justify any good farmer in going to a certain expense, for attaining s0 profitable a part of what ought to be his farm Yard system. In nine-tenths of the farmeries in the king- dom, it is lamentable to See 50 many parts of a right pig- gery Scattered and unconnected, in Such a manner-as to pre- clude convenience, increase labour, and prevent the making

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t In ahoggery, built bythe author in 1765, nearly, but not exadtly, on this idea,

the expeuses were as follow:== 2 Il 16 7 5 The boiling-house-= 18 18 0 Copver--- 13550.-..0 Pond--- 400 Pump--= 4..,10..,0 Cilterns 6-- 14 00 Shed--=- 6.45:4:0 Paling-»= 4: va Dil] Paving-=-=- 20: 0; 0 Troughs-=- 35.050

Total, besides timber, L.78 100

By means of one of these yards, he fattened 88 hogs in Spring 1766 with only

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