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" The roof covers the passage way and eating and sleeping apart- 

 ments on each side, and is made sufficiently high to enable the feeder to 

 pass between the pens. The floors of the eating and sleeping apart- 

 ments are made perfectly tight ; the floor of the promenade in the up- 

 per story is laid with narrow planks, placed 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 no floor. The only passage for 

 passing the pigs out and in, is by a slide-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 arc placed than at the other, the 

 floor of the boiler room is on a level with the passage way of the up- 

 per story, where the pigs kept in this part of the building are taken in 

 and out. At the other end of the building, the floor of the passage 

 way in the lower story is on a level with the natural surface of the 

 ground, and by a door at that end of the passage way, the hogs in the 

 lower story are taken in and out. You will perceive that a pen 100 

 feet long and 34 wide, with 3 in a pen, will furnish ample accommoda- 

 tions for 120 hogs. A passage way for the feeder is made from the 

 cooking room to the passage way in the lower story." — New England 

 Farmer for September, 1840. 



