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AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Tlie annexed outline engraving gives the plan of pen anil feed-liousc of the 

 gentleman referred to. It forma an L, 65 by 91^ feet. The feeding-room, 

 36 by 70, divided into eight pens, with an alley through the middle length- 

 wise four and one-half feet Avide ; outside yards are arranged 16 feet wide, the 

 same length of the pens inside, the passages to which arc provided with doors 

 to shut up iu severe weather : 



PLAN OF HOG HOUSE AND YARDS. 



One part of the L is built two stories high, with corn-sheller arranged for 

 shelling, from which it is conducted to the mill below. The other part of the 

 building contains the engine for driving the sheller and mill and furnishing the 

 steam with which to cook the feed. The building is built of stone iu a very 

 substantial manner. 



MARKETING HOGS. 



The largest number of hogs are marketed on foot, and are generally trans- 

 ported from the nearest railroad station to the great packing centres of the 

 country. A common Avay with railroad men is to prepare cars with double 

 decks, one above the other, and thus providing for 50 to 75 hogs. This seems 

 a. more humane way than to croAvd so many as would be necessary in one tier 

 to load a car. In the height of the hog season iu Chicago, in the neighbor- 

 hood of the yards, it would sometimes seem as though we had almost got into 

 a " hog heaven," for, turn which way you will, in the cars, in the yards, in 

 the streets, all is hog, hog ; and their cowardly pointed heads always turned 

 earthward, running, grunting, squealing, and all showing a disposition to travel 

 any way but the direction wanted. 



During one single day the past season the astonishing number of 122,825 

 hogs were received in Chicago, and some enterprising statistician has figured 

 them up in this wise : 



" Allowinf^ each hog to measure six feet, and all strung' in one continuous line, they would 

 form a hog-telegruph 140 miles long; and if each hog were made up into sausages and all 



