No. 3. 



Double Milk Pans. 



91 



out about six feet from the line of the upper 

 outside promenade line. 



PLAN OF THE FLOOR OF THE UPPER STORY. 



Fig. 12. 

 END VIEW. 



Fig. 13. 



The roof covers the passage way and eat- 

 ing- and sleeping apartments on each side, 

 and made sufficiently high to enable the feeder 

 to pass between the pens. The floors of the 

 eating and sleeping apartments are made per- 

 fectly tight — the floor of the promenade in 

 the upper story is laid with narrow plank, 

 ]ilaced about one inch apart, so that whatever 

 is dropped by the pigs, falls through on the 

 compost beneath. The promenade of the 



lower story has i-) floor. The only passage 

 for passing the pigs out and in, is by a sI.»;g 

 door between each dormitory and the main 

 passage way. The pen being on ground 

 which is a little higher at the end where the 

 boilers are placed than at the other, the floor 

 of the boiler room is on a level with the pas- 

 sage way of the upper story, wiiere the pig.s 

 kept in this part of the build mg are taken in 

 and out. At the other end of tj^ building, 

 the floor of the passage way in the im\er story is 

 on a level with the natural surface of the 

 ground, and by a door at that end of the pas- 

 sage way, the hogs in the lower story are 

 taken in and out. You will perceive that a 

 pen one hundred feet long and thirty-four 

 wide, with three in a pen, will furnish ample 

 accommodations for one hundred and twenty 

 hogs. A passage way for the feeder is made 

 from the cooking room to the passage way in 

 the lower story. 



Very respectfully, yours, 

 N. E. Farmer. E. PHINNEY. 



* Dormitory 5 ft. sqr. j Eating apartment 5 ft. sqr. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Sir, — In reply to your correspondent, Mrs. 

 Jenkinson, page 52 of the Cabinet, I beg 

 to say, I have no doubt the use of lead pans 

 for the dairy is highly objectionable, particu- 

 larly, as she intimates, " in the hands of filthy 

 and careless persons." In many places, how- 

 ever, zinc pans have been substituted with 

 perfect success; and an addition has been 

 made to them which facilitates the operations 

 of the dairy, and seems to embrace all that 

 can be desired in that department of rural 

 economy. For the information of those of 

 your readers, who have not seen or heard of 

 this invention, I beg to offer, for insertion in 

 your valuable pages, a particular account of 

 their structure, together with the mode of 

 using them, and remarks on their introduction 

 to general use. One of these pans has been 

 made in this country, and is now in u;e ; the 

 result of the experiment might form the sub- 

 ject of a future communication to the Cabi- 

 net. Your Subscriber, J. P. 



September 20, 1839. 



DoiiWe MilU Pans, 



For the use of Iar;:e or small Dairies. 

 These pans, made of zinc, prepared afler a 

 peculiar process, possess many and great ad- 

 vantages over those in general use, and are 

 recommended as far superior to any ever 



