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Louden Tubular Steel Hog Pens — Continued 



Hog House on Homewood Farms, Moline, III. — Louden Equipped 



hog houses in this country. It is fitted throughout with the Louden Tubular Steel Hog Pens 



so clean and is so well ventilated that it is entirely free from the disagreeable odor common to hog pens 



If we will stop to consider we will 

 find that the hog has been outrageously 

 abused in many ways which it is not 

 necessary to recount here. The hog is 

 not irrevocably a filthy animal. It is 

 largely the way he has had to live that 

 has made him filthy. The fattening 

 process is more or less a heating process, 

 and the hog goes into the mud hole to 

 cool the fever in his blood. The hog 

 needs clean comfortable quarters and 

 this can be secured by using the Louden 

 Tubular Steel Hog Pens, set in a con- 

 crete floor, and supplied with plenty of 

 pure water to keep him clean. 



The illustration to the left shows a 

 section of the Hog House on the Home- 

 wood Farms near Moline, 111., — Owned 

 by Wm. Butterworth, President of 

 Deere & Co. This is one of the finest 



It is kept 



Fig. 1286. Panel With Guard Rail. 



Fig. 1 167 shows one of the Lou- 

 den Pens fitted with a swinging panel 

 set over a trough so that the panel 

 can be swung either to the inside or 

 to the outside of the trough and be 

 locked in either position. The ob- 

 ject is to swing the panel in to keep 

 the hogs out of the trough while fill- 

 ing it and then swing the panel out 

 to give the hogs the entire width of 

 the trough while they are eating. 



Fig. II 68 is a sectional view of 

 the arrangement. The panel is 

 hinged to the top-rail of the pen 

 and is held in position by a chain, 

 C, which is passed over the top-rail 



Fig. 1168 



and under the lower rail of the swinging panel, and is then fastened to opposite j— ' 



sides of the trough. The chain is passed through a locking piece, L, which is 



slidably mounted on the top-rail. This locking piece has an opening in its 



center large enough for the chain to pass through and let the panel swing to the sides as far as the dotted 



lines in Fig. 1 168. 



The ends of the locking piece have narrow slots and when slid to either one side or the other it will catch 

 the links of the chain and will hold it in locked position. The arrangement is extremely simple and it is 

 easily operated It is also strong and reliable in its operation. Fig. 1 168 shows a concrete trough. 



The pens in which brood sows are housed should be provided with strong guard rails along each side 

 to prevent the sows from lying on the young pigs. 



The Louden Guard Rails are made of I "^ g inch steel tubing, supported by short curved pieces of the 

 same material clamped to extra heavy uprights in the panel. They are strong, durable, and ornamental. 

 Fig. 1286 shows a section of a pen fitted with guard rails. 



Our Tubular Steel Pens are also well suited for sheep and we are supplying them for this purpose. We 

 are prepared to equip either hog houses or sheep houses, large or small, with pens to suit requirements, 

 and will be pleased to furnish further information or mail blue prints showing different installments. 



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