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area devoted to each bed is 8 x 8 feet. The 

 driveway, which also serves for temporary 

 storage of manures, is 8 feet wide and extends 



lengthwise through the 

 building. The floor of 

 tne driveway should be 

 about one foot lower 

 than the feeding 



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and sleeping 

 floors at the mid- 

 dle, and should 

 be paved or as- 

 phalted. (See 

 cross section. 

 Fig. 129.) The 

 feeding floor upon which 

 the troughs rest may be 

 4 or 5 feet long, and 



Fig. 128. A more elaborate piggery. sllOUld dCSCCUd tOWards 



the driving floor. Ordinary gates are hung to 

 the posts which serve, with the boarding, to 

 separate the pens. These gates are fastened at 

 the other end of the posts which separate the 

 feeding compartments. When so fastened each 

 brood animal has a bedroom 8 x 8, a receptacle 

 for manure 8x8, and a feeding floor 4x8 feet. 

 This arrangement presupposes that most of the 

 foods will be fed in the troughs. If, when the 

 animals are first placed in the pens, the paved 



