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GENESEE FARMER. 



Sept 



PLAN OF A ri(JGi:RRV. — ELEVATION. 



GROUND PLAN. 



Plan of a Piggerj'. 



I FORWARD you my plan of a piggery and 

 other necessary fixtures, which I have in con- 

 templation, and am preparing to put up, on a 

 liasteful and cheap scale, within the reach of 

 every thriving citizen in our State. 



The cost of construction will depend much 

 on the finish. The ground plan of the two 

 buildings, which includes a yard between them, 

 is 40 feet long and 14 feet wide, which may 

 cost from 50 to 90 dollars. A good mechanic 

 has proposed to do all the labor, after the foun- 

 dation was laid, for $40, the boards to be planed 

 and matched. Unless the buildings are to be 

 painted, I would recommend that the boards be 

 put on in a rough state, and whitewashed with a 

 composition of stone lime and water lime. To 

 construct a good cellar would cost about $30 

 more. 



This plan might be enlarged ; I have designed 

 it for six fattening hogs, or for one breeding 

 sow and three porkers. " Millionaires" may 

 require something more expensive, but this is 

 sufficiently spacious for the common citizen of 

 Vermont. The two upright buildings represent 

 the swill house and piggery. Both are 14 feet 

 long and 12 feet wide, the posts 10 feet. 



The ground plan of the first building contains 

 the arch A, for cooking, where boilers and 

 steamers will be placed sufficiently large to ac- 

 commodate the number of hogs to be fed. The 

 feeding troughs, also, T, T, are included in the 

 same building, which is made of white oak 

 plank, and extends the whole length of the 

 house, except the space occupied by the tubs or 

 vats, I, I, which are convenient for the cooked 

 food, swill, &c. One of them may contain the 

 warm food, the other in a process of fermenta- 

 tion to be fed at any time. The dots on the 

 yard side of the house and feeding trough, T, 

 T, represents standards of iron or white oak, 

 arranged along and close to the outside of the 

 trough, at suitable distances to allow the heads 

 of the swine to pass through them into the feed- 

 j ing trough. The sill on this side of the house 

 I is raised and framed to the posts two feet above 

 I the common level of the other sills, and these, 

 j standards or pins which prevent hogs from get- 

 ting into the trough or house, are framed into 

 the sill above, and the feeding trough ; the plank 

 which forms the bottom of the trough may pro- 

 ject on the outer side for that purpose, or the 

 plank may be of such thickness as to enter the 

 upper edge. 



B, B, B, are bins for apples and roots, in each 



