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In all these arrangements for sheep it is necessary to avoid having 

 holes or open spaces into which young lambs might creep, a 

 thing they are very apt to do, but they are not apt to get out again 

 and of course they soon perish. Lambs are 

 unless care is taken to prevent it. 



PIG PENS. 



Some years ago I built a range of pig pens, of which a view is here 

 given. At first it was made seventy feet long, and I found it so con- 

 venient that it was increased by additions to 200 feet. It was nine 

 feet high on one side, and six and one-half on the other, and sixteen 

 feet wide. . It had a four-feet alley the whole length. The pens were 



NIVERSITY 



RANGE OF PIG PENS. 



twelve by ten feet each, divided from each other by partitions three 

 feet high. Each pen had a double door, the upper one used for 

 ventilation, and the lower one to close the pen when the pigs were 

 not allowed in the yard. At one end of the range of pens there was 

 a boiler for cooking feed, which was distributed among the pigs along 

 the feeding alley. As pigs are indispensable on most farms to consume 

 ihe wastes, and as the profit from them and the ease of labor in 

 attending to them depend upon the arrangement of the pens, it is 

 very necessary that this matter should receive attention. A plank 

 floor is required for pig pens, as the pigs would soon dig up any 

 other kind. The floor should have a slope to the yard for the 

 drainage, to keep them dry, for though the pig is supposed to be 

 a filthy animal, yet none other thrive better for being kept dry and 



An excellent piggery, built a few years ago by Mr. F. D. Curtis, of 

 Saratoga County, N. Y., is shown in the following engravings, 

 the first of which represents the general view of the building and 



