heavy upright wire in front of each pen, fastened to the horizontal wires by 

 means of washers used for that purpose. The wire partition is set in about 

 214 inches from the side of the trough next to the passage, thus allowing room 

 to pour feed into the troughs. 



The troughs are cement, and are 8 inches high next to thejeed passage, 4 

 inches high next to the feeding pen, and 10 inches wide. 



The feed passage, which is 5 feet wide, is 4 inches lower than the feeding 

 pen. This is merely a device to show the pigs to better advantage. 



The purpose of the doors in the partitions between the pens is easily 

 understood. They can be swung back, closing the pigs in the back apart- 

 ment and leaving a continuous passage for cleaning out the pens. The bed- 

 ding is also taken in and distributed from this passage. These doors are also 

 used in moving pigs from one pen to another, since there arc no doors from 

 the pens into the feed passage. The absence of doors from the pens into the 

 feed passage is one of the most inconvenient features of the pen, but is hard 

 to avoid where a wire partition is used. The wire partition, however, is more 

 sanitary than wood and gives a much better view of the pigs. 



It will be noticed that the sleeping quarters have cement floors. When 

 bedding is plentiful this may give no trouble, but it would be a simple matter 

 to place a portable wooden platform on the cement. 



The roof is supported by the four lines of posts to which the partitions 

 are fastened. Each row carries a line of plates which support the rafters. 



There are six windows, each 5 feet long by 2j4 feet high, in the south wall, 

 and the same number in the roof, placed as previously described. The north 

 wall has only two windows. 



The dimensions given for the small pens, include partitions. 



The pens as described are not suitable for farrowing pens. As a matter 

 of fact, it is better to have sows farrow in a building away from other pigs, 

 especially during cold weather when the building must be kept pretty well 

 closed up. The air of a piggery where a large number of pigs are kept, does 

 not seem to agree well with little 'pigs. However, if it were desired to have 

 the sows farrow in the large piggery, one of the sections on the south side 

 could be modified to answer the purpose by making the sleeping apartments 

 2^2 feet wider, thus giving beds 8 x 8^ feet. 



The absence of a loft for storing straw will be a strong objection in the 

 eyes of many. The ventilation of the building, however, and the health of the 

 animals are of vastly greater importance than the inconvenience occasioned 

 by the absence of a loft. It is generally possible to locate the building so as 

 to make it comparatively easy to obtain straw for bedding. 



Portable Pens. 



The accompanying sketches show a very cheap and easily constructed 

 pen, suitable for winter quarters for breeding sows. The pen is 16 feet long 

 by 8 feet wide. It is 7 feet high in front and 3^2 feet high at the rear. It is 

 boarded with cheap lumber, but all cracks are securely battened. It should be 

 Practically wind and rain proof. The opening is at one corner; and the pen 

 should be set with the opening towards the south. A door is not necessary. 

 Plenty of bedding should be supplied, and the pen should be banked outside 

 with horse manure to the depth of about two feet. This method of housing 

 sows is better than close confinement in warm pens. The same pens will 

 answer for shelter from the sun in summer. 



