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fastened to a hook in the alleyway. The house is built 

 of drop siding with shingle roof. The alley, or feedway, 

 is 4 feet 8 inches wide. There is also a door the full 

 width of each pen opening into this alleyway; also a 

 trough full width of the pens built in the floor 8 inches 

 wide, just inside these 4-foot doors. 



Water is piped from a tank at the house into barrels 

 shown in the diagram. The barrels each have a watercr 

 attached and hogs have access to them at all times ex- 



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cept when sows are in the pens during the farrowing 

 period. Then the troughs are used. The building faces 

 south with the high side to the north. There is a half 

 window in the south side of each of the 25 pens, which 

 gives abundant light. There are also six of these small 

 windows in the north side of the house. 



The plan shows the pitch and shape of the roofs, with 

 ventilators, and the location of the grain bin. This bin 

 has doors at the top 2 feet 6 inches wide, hinged at the 

 top or bottom as preferred. Each of these is 10 feet 

 long, thus making it more convenient to fill the bin than 

 if the doors were smaller. 



