THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



buildings. If hams and bacon are to be raised 

 in quantities, then quarters should be provided 

 for not less than five brood sows and a boar, 

 and the building should have plenty of light 

 and ventilation. The lUinois Experiment Sta- 

 tion has a piggery which is a capital example of 

 what such a building should be. Its dimen- 

 sions are 120 by 30 feet, and the long way of 

 the building is east and west. There are two 

 rows of pens, each 10 feet wide by 11 feet 

 deep, with an alley 8 feet wide through the cen- 

 tre. The floor is concrete, and all the parti- 

 tions are made of heavy wire fencing with posts 

 of galvanized piping set in the concrete floor. 

 There is a gate in each pen and a door (which 

 slides upward) leading to the outside. The 

 feed troughs are of metal and placed on the 

 alley side of the pens. The section of fence 

 which they are under is hinged at the top so that 

 it can be pushed in toward the pen and fas- 

 tened; this keeps the pigs from interfering with 

 the feeder when he is filling the troughs. Each 

 pen is provided with a fender made of two-inch 

 iron pipe set six inches from the wall and nine 

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