100 HARRIS ON THE PIG. 



take the hogs to the dressing table. Triangular pieces, 

 E, E, are spiked to each front partition, and swing with 

 it, forming stalls to prevent their crowding while feeding. 

 These are supported, when the apartment is closed, by 

 notches in the inner edge of the trough, made to receive 

 them. 



The wing, W, (fig. 35) is 12 by 16 feet. This answers for 

 a slaughtering room. In one corner, adjoining the main 

 hall, is a well and pump, P, from which, by means of a 



Fig. 36. VIEW OF FRONT PARTITION. 



hose, water is conveyed to the troughs. At the opposite 

 corner, JT, is a large iron kettle, set in an arch, for cook- 

 ing food, and for scalding the slaughtered swine. We 

 would suggest that, in many localities, it would be a de- 

 sirable addition to have this wing built two stories high, 

 the upper part to be used for storing grain for the hogs, 

 and also that a cellar be made underneath for receiving 

 roots. 



We give from the American Agriculturist illustrations 

 taken from the working drawings of a pig-house which 

 has recently been built at Ogden Farm (Newport, R. L). 

 It is submitted to those of our readers who may con- 

 template improvements of this sort. The building is 

 14 x 32 feet, and cost (built of rough pine battened, with 

 cedar shingles on the roof) only $425, including the exca- 



