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SWINE IN AMERICA 



Herewith is a feed house 14 feet square and 1 1 feet 

 high to the eaves, with an ordinary comb roof of de- 

 sired pitch. Its builder, W. A. Hart of Jay county, Ind., 

 says it will afford room in the loft for 450 bushels of 

 corn, and bin room in the center of the floor for nearly 

 two tons of ground feed, and convenient trough space 

 for 50 hogs. The hogs do not go inside the building, 



A CONVENIENT FEED HOUSE AND FEEDING FLOOR 



but eat slop from a partitioned V-shaped trough ex- 

 tending along" three sides of the house, the outer edge of 

 the trough coming out even with the outer edge of the 

 building. Outside of the building, and fitted to it at each 

 of the sides, where there is a trough, is a feeding plat- 

 form eight feet wide, extending the whole length of 

 the trough. This platform is inclosed with an ordinary 

 board fence, with the bottom board fitted down upon 

 the floor to prevent ear corn from being rooted off the 

 platform. A gate in the fence shuts the hogs on or off 

 tlie platform. The house on the three sides at which 



