. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. Jan. 2, 1908.] Agricultural Gazette of 33 at either end to hook a swingle-bar to, and one horse can shift it anywhere. It costs about £9 to make, complete. To preserve it in good order, it must, say once a year, be painted externally, and not allowed to stand too long in one position. Troughs. Feeding pigs with slop food is most easily dune in troughs, and, uu- doubtedly, these should be well made. They should be so strong that the pigs cannot break them up, but not so cumbersome and h
. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. Jan. 2, 1908.] Agricultural Gazette of 33 at either end to hook a swingle-bar to, and one horse can shift it anywhere. It costs about £9 to make, complete. To preserve it in good order, it must, say once a year, be painted externally, and not allowed to stand too long in one position. Troughs. Feeding pigs with slop food is most easily dune in troughs, and, uu- doubtedly, these should be well made. They should be so strong that the pigs cannot break them up, but not so cumbersome and heavy that one man cannot lift them about to clean out occasionally. Smaller separate troughs, in a yard where there are a number of pigs to be fed, are preferable to one large trough, where the pigs crowd and jostle each other for the feed. Some- times a large platform, with a deep gutter all round, is laid down, the feed tumbled into the gutters, and the pigs haul it out on to the platform to feed. This style is very suitable where a large number have to be fed at one time. The ordinary trough for the sty may be made of various materials, but, like the floors, they should be impervious and easily cleaned. Square and sharp corners should be avoided, and if this is attended to the pig will clean out its o\n\ Fig. 21. Mould for casting Concrete Troughs. Concrete, comiwsed of bricks, stone, gravel, or such like, broken up to a %-inch gauge, mixed with cement mortar, makes capital troughs. All that is necessary is to have a mould—such as is showm at Fig. 21—the stone, sand, cement and water, and a handy man can make a trough at any time he may have a spare hour at a cost of Is. 6d. If coarse, clean sand, mixed witli about one-third its bulk of finer sand, and using three parts of this to one part Portland cement, no stone will be necessary. Ax\, at Fig. 21, shows a rough platform (which would not be necessary if a floor was available) to set the mould on. This mould i
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