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trouglis. The objection to this last arrangement was, tliat the swill had to 

 be made tliin cnoiigli to How freely. Tlio arrangement, however, was a very 

 pcjfect one, and woithy of imitatinn upon all bimilarly situated farms. 



34G. Itaihray Cooking Arrangeniciit for I'i?s. — We suggested the following 

 arrangement, more than twenty years ago, for cooking food for jiigs or anv 

 other stock, and we afterward had a model made and exhibited at the fair 

 of the American Institute, which awarded it a silver medal. 



Tliis is the plan: arrange a steam chamber of any given dimensions — sa_v 

 three feet by six feet, and three feet high — over a furnace kettle, or any- 

 where that steam could be conveyed into it from a boiler. This chamber 

 has a door at one end, made steam-tight, and rails in the bottom upon which 

 a car travels, and these rails should extend outside to tlie root-bin, or meal- 

 tnbs, or rescrvoire of food to be cooked. The car being loaded, is rolled into 

 the chamber, and door closed. "When the food is cooked, shut off steam and 

 open an esca]ie-valvc, and then the door, and roll out the car over cooling 

 vats, and open a trap in the bottom of the car, and let the contents drop. 

 These cooling vats may be placed near enough to dip tiie swill into the tV-ed- 

 trpughs, or it maybe carried in anoilier car along an alley, and thence dipped 

 into the feed-troughs, or made to run into them through conductors. Such 

 aa arrangement would, without duubt, save a great deal of hard labor, and 

 it would not be very expensive. Whatever the arrangement of the piggery, 

 keep ill is fact constantly in view, that in some sections of the country the 

 manure which yon can make while fatting your pork, if your pigufcry h 

 well arranged, will prove to be the most profitable part of the pork-making 

 pi ocess. 



There is another necessary farm-building which we may as well speak of 

 here, particularly as it is one that may, whenever the situation will admit, 

 very properly be located in the immediate vicinity of the piggery, and it is 

 equally valuable to the farmer as a mine of manurial wealth. It is — 



347. The Temple of Cloaciua. — Every fami-houso must have a temple set 

 apart for this heathenish deiiy, but no farm-house should have such a neces- 

 sary appendage a disgrace to civilization, as too many of them are. Such 

 a building should be placed convenient to tlio bouse, l^ut i.ever in flight. 

 It should be located in a clump of shrubbery, mostly evergreens, out of sight 

 from the house, or else it should be made part and j)arcel of some of the out- 

 buildings, so as never to be a prominent object. We have often seen ihcso 

 buildings so placed that they were the most conspicuous things ahout tlio 

 place. A very little relinement in a farmer's family will make it revolt at ex- 

 posing the part of a farmery that should bo hidden from public gaze. A 

 very litlle knowledge of the deoderiziug eflVct of fine, dry, swamp muck, or 

 charcoal, or plaster, or copperas will serve to keep a jdace that must bo 

 visited every day, by every member of tho family, so sweet that it never 

 will he offensive; and the valual)li- contents* of the vault, which should bo 

 always shallow and easy to clean, will then become a source of profit, instead 

 of a nuisance both disagreeable and disgraceful. 



