476 FEEDING ANIMALS. 



Neponset, Illinois, Dr. Ezra Stetson. The doctor has 

 been a very successful breeder and feeder for the general 

 market. We are indebted for the illustration to the National 

 Live Stock Journal. The engravings are upon a scale of 32 

 feet to the inch. 



Figure 16 shows a side elevation of the building, which 

 is a very plain, unostentatious structure, but -substantially 

 built. Figure 17 shows the ground floor, with its sub- 

 divisions. The main elevation at the right (Fig. 16) is 

 devoted to corn-cribs and the cooking apparatus. This 

 part of the building is 26 x 48 feet, and is divided as shown 

 in Figure 17; L being a corn-crib, 9 x20 feet; N a corn- 

 crib, 9 x 48 feet ; M a hall, or drive-way, 8 x 48 feet ; P, 

 platform scales for weighing grain, hogs, etc.; is a plat- 

 form outside of, but adjoining, the corn-crib on the south 

 side, and is 16 x 56 feet, with doors opening to the corn-crib, 

 as shown in* the diagram. This platform is surrounded by 

 substantial fence. Before feeding, the gates Gr, G, G are 

 all closed, and the platform swept perfectly clean. The 

 corn is then placed on the floors, the gates are opened, and 

 the hogs walk in to their repast. When it is designed to 

 load a part of the hogs in the wagon, to take them to the 

 market, the gates G G are closed, in a line with the west 

 end of the platform, leaving the southern gate, which swings 

 across the platform, open. As many hogs as are wanted 

 are then driven into this wing, or L, of the platform, and 

 the south gate is closed across the platform from the fence 

 to the southeast corner of the corn-crib. The hogs are thus 

 securely confined in a small inclosure. The large, outside 

 gate G is then swung round toward the corn-crib, across 

 the platform, and this reduces the space to which the hogs 

 are confined to about one-half. The wagon is then backed 

 up to the small gate G, which is then opened, and the hogs 

 are loaded without difficulty. 



K t represents a platform, 18 x 48 feet, constructed simi- 



