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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1870. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... be moved about at pleasure; the flexible steam hose, with an iron nozzle, conveying the steam to the bottom of the barrel. Figure 38 is a cross section, showing the manure !.--CROSS-SECTION OF OGDEN FABM PIGGERY. pits, pens, etc. More than fifteen cords of manure can be stored in the pits, which are to be emptied through shuttered windows. Figure 39 is the front elevation of the V Fig. 39.--FRONT ELEVATION OP OGDEN FABM PIGGERY. building, which is to have small yards at the sides, communicating with the pens by slopes from the outer doors. This house will accommodate from thirty to forty shoats, or a corresponding number of breeding animals." Mr. Geo. Mangles, a very extensive breeder and feeder of pigs in Yorkshire, England, has constructed a cheap and simple shed for fattening pigs, engravings of which, taken from Mr. Sidney's edition of Youatt on the Pig, we annex. Mr. Mangles' description is as follows: "For feeding pigs the best arrangement is a covered shed (shown in figure 40), kept dark, with partitions to hold three pigs in each division, as feeding-pigs do not require much exercise. If the pigs be fed regu larly, and a little fresh bedding spread every day, the animals sleep and thrive very fast. The improvement they make in a warm, covered shed, with plenty of fresh air, is astonishing. A feeding-pig cannot be too warm, if he has plenty of fresh air. "I have had pigs fatten very fast upon latticed boards, with pits underneath for the droppings. The boards should be swept occasionally, and sawdust sprinkled over them and swept through. This plan will only do for feeding-pigs (not for pigs for sale, breeding, or exhibition), as their houghs swell very much; but young pigs always do better on boards than on stone floors. "The covered pig-shed (fig. 41), of w...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150773280
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150773286
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr

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