COMFORT IN THE PIGGERY
AN ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS. AVOID .COLDS. We are told that -there is no animal on the farm that is more likely to suffer from colds, caused by lying on damp floors or in draughts, than the pig; and yet there is none that is, as a rule, so carelessly provided for with buildings. Anything seems to be thought good enough for a pigsty, either in design or construction—few, indeed, can be said to have any design about them at all.
The- class of sty usually provided for the pig is placed in a corner of the yard, and consists simply of posts and rails (round saplings usually) for Avails, and a feAv sheets of bark for covering, but no floor. The trough may be either a half-hoIIOAV log Avith ends nailed on, or a log mortised out of the solid lying in another part of the yard and half buried in the soil. A pig housed as described cannot give as good results for -the feed it consumes as another more comfortably housed, and to the man Avho is rearing pigs for profit this should be a serious consideration.
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Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1731, 11 March 1926, Page 7
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