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grain descends through the feed .chute. There is a 

 door P between the cook room and shed. The corn 

 crib is three feet at the bottom and four at the top. 

 The slats on the outside run up and down. The open- 

 ing into the alleyway is a sliding door. As shown 

 here the house has four pens, but it can be continued 

 on the same general plan until it has twenty. This 

 pen is double boarded with wide boards and heavy 

 building paper in between. The flue for the stove is 

 shown in the cooking room. 



The piggery of a Brattleboro, Vermont, institution 

 which cost $8000 is here shown. There are forty pens 



A MODKL PIGGKRY. 



in all, twenty on each side of a central alleyway. The 

 pens are eight by thirteen feet with yards eight by 

 twelve feet. The entry is twelve and one-half feet wide. 

 The building is cemented throughout. In the building 

 at the end are the steam boiler and slaughter-house. 

 The building accommodates 200 pigs. Six pens near- 

 est the steam boiler are heated by steam for farrowing 

 sows. All pens slope towards the yard. It has all the 

 desirable features, such as sliding doors operated by 

 rope and pulleys, ventilation, swinging trough doors to 

 keep the pigs away while the food is being put in the 



