666 THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



to root-cellar, underneath the whole building, and also passage-way to second story. This 

 latter is used for storing corn in winter, and curing some varieties of seeds in summer. A 

 wooden spout, with sliding valve, conveys feed to the chest below. The grain is hoisted to 

 the second floor by a pulley and tackle on the outside. 



The entrance to the main building is by a door in the center of the north front, the door 

 by which grain is hoisted to the second story being directly above the latter, with a four- 

 paned window on either side for lighting the upper story of the building. 



On either side of a central passage-way are six pens, the first two pens to the right and 

 left of the door being 12 x 12 feet each, and attached to them are 25 feet in length of yard, 

 by 15 feet wide. All the yards are extended 3 feet wider than the building, which admits of 

 two entrance gates at the corners. 



Another division then commences, consisting of a raised platform, 6 to 8 feet wide, and 

 extending the same width as the first pen, with a board roof over it, and also boarded up on 

 the back, which answers the purpose of a division fence, to separate from the pen behind it. 

 Twenty-five feet of yard are also attached to this, and the same arrangement is continued to 

 all the six divisions. We have found, says Mr. Morris, that this board roof and wooden 

 floor, on the north side of each pen, and fronting the south, are ample protection in cold, wet, 

 or stormy weather. The floor is kept perfectly clean, and even the feeding-trough is not on 

 it, on account of more or less of wet and dirt always contiguous to the trough, which freezes 

 in winter and becomes slippery. 



Each yard is used for the deposit of refuse vegetables and weeds, litter, etc., thrown in 

 from time to time, to be consumed, or made into manure. This is conveniently loaded into a 

 cart, passing along on the outside of each range of pens. The passage-way between each 

 range of pens gives convenient access to the feeder for all the pens. A door also communi 

 cates from one division to the other, to make changes when necessary; and also a door or 

 gate from each pen to the outside, so that one or more can be removed, and others intro 

 duced, without any confusion or interference from any of the other pens. The two pens 

 under the main roof of the building, being more sheltered, are reserved for cows that may 

 happen to calve very early in the season, or in extremely cold weather, which is always 

 , avoided if practicable. For several reasons, the boiler for cooking food is in a rough shed, 

 . adjacent to the piggery and entirely outside of it. There is, indeed, no reason why this 

 should be necessarily a part of the piggery. The above plan is not offered as embracing 

 much that is novel in arrangement, but as one that combines many advantages which may be 

 comprised in the following: 



Complete separation, and easy communication between each pen, as well as to outside 

 from each. 



Avoiding close and confined air, and admitting of extension or alteration for a large or 

 small number of pigs. 



Facilities for keeping clean and receiving refuse vegetables and weeds, etc., for conver 

 sion into manure, and also for loading from each pen into a cart, passing along outside. 



Cheapness. With the exception of the main building, all the rest can easily be erected 

 by an intelligent farm hand. 



Mr. J. W. Morrison of Orange county, N. Y., has for a piggery a two-story building, 

 26x40 feet on the ground, the front posts being 16 feet, while the rear posts are 14 feet 

 high. The roof is nearly flat, and covered with gravel and tar. 



On the long, forty-feet side of the ground floor are five pens, each 8x14 feet in size, 

 connected with which are yards 8x16 feet in size, these being on the south side of the build 

 ing, which fronts the north. On the north side of these five pens are feeding-troughs, 1 x l 

 feet, which connect with the feeding and slaughtering-room by openings suitable for pouring 

 the swill or other feed into the troughs, aside from which the partition between the pens 



