. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 10 THE BOOK OF THE FARM THE RING PIGS -TROUGH. among other things of interest, saw what in very probably the oripinal of the trooch here de- scribed. The irouphs in this piffircr^- are composed of wood, bat precisely on the Nime principle, as here fi^'ured and described, and tfii-ir introduction there dates as far back as the time of the late Duke Hcurj- of Buccleuch, whoso invention they are supposed to be, and which must be at least o
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 10 THE BOOK OF THE FARM THE RING PIGS -TROUGH. among other things of interest, saw what in very probably the oripinal of the trooch here de- scribed. The irouphs in this piffircr^- are composed of wood, bat precisely on the Nime principle, as here fi^'ured and described, and tfii-ir introduction there dates as far back as the time of the late Duke Hcurj- of Buccleuch, whoso invention they are supposed to be, and which must be at least of forty or more years' standinir. (H39.) The king Pies'-Tronsh.—I have seen in Eng-land a very handsome pigs'-trough adapted for standing in the middle of a court. It is formed also of cast-iron, but in one entire piece, and is here represented in fig. 398. Ita external appearance when viewed as it stands on the ground, approaches tc* that of a hollow hemisphere ; but Fig. 296. interiorly the bottom parts rise up in the center, forming a cen- tral pillar, thus converting the hemisphere into an annular trough, whose transverse sec- tion is a semicircle, and tlie en- tire section of the two troughs forms two semicircles conjoin- ed. The diameter a i of this trough is 30 inches, the edge is finished with a round baton, serving both for strength and for comfort to the animals which eat out of it; the depth is about 9 in- ches, and it is divided into eight compartments by the di- visions c, which are formed with a convexity on the upper edge to prevent the food being thrown from the one compartment into another.—J. (1440.) In regard to the slaughtering of pips, they should be made to fast for nearly a day, to clear their bowels of as much food as possible. The season best adapted for the purpose is in the cool months of the year; the flesh in the warm months not becoming sufficiently firm, and is then lia ble to be fly-blown before it should be cured. For using fresh pork, t
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