RACKS, MANGERS, STANCHIONS, ETC. 17 



FEEDING CRIB FOR PORK-PRODUCING SECTIONS. 



To construct the crib shown in the illustration, four 

 forked posts are set in the ground at the corners of a 

 nine foot square. In the forks are placed stout poles 

 and on these are laid the floor and is built the crib. The 

 posts make the pen high enough for the swine to pass 

 under it ; hence, any corn that falls through it is eaten. 

 The feeding floor is laid under and around the pen. In 

 the greatest pork producing sections, nearly all the hogs 

 are fattened from October 1st to January 1st, the corn 



Fig. 12. CEIB FOB FEEDING LOT. 



being fed to the hogs as it is husked. In the pen shown 

 fifty to one hundred bushels can be thrown enough to 

 feed for two or three days when it is desired to do other 

 work. It is an easy matter to throw the corn from the 

 crib to the feeding floor, and as the corn will never re- 

 main in the crib longer than a week, no roof is required. 

 Set the posts solidly in the ground, for if the weight of 

 the corn should cause the crib to fall, it would kill any 

 fat hogs that "might be under it. The hogs cannot pos- 

 sibly get in to this crib. Rats cannot infest it. The mate- 

 rials exist on nearly every farm, and any farmer can make 

 this crib and in a short time. 



