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above the feeding floor, and be closely boarded up all round 

 except the gate to the entrance. 



" The watering barrel may be placed where convenient. 

 Two kerosene barrels are set side by side, connected by a 

 short piece of gas-pipe. Water is let into the barrel with 

 the valve and float from the reservoir, and can rise no 

 higher than confined by the float, and as fast as drunk out 

 will be immediately filled provided, always, the reservoir 

 is not allowed to get empty. By this arrangement & peren- 

 nial spring is brought to the very place wanted. 



" The cooking arrangement will probably be omitted by 

 the great majority, should they build upon a similar plan. 

 In raising large numbers of pigs, it is next to impossible to 

 make slops for the sows and their pigs without some sort of 

 a heating apparatus, and I think this has the merit of be- 

 ing convenient. We make the wind do all the lifting of 

 the water, and a very small quantity of fuel, rightly applied, 

 will boil a large quantity of water. The cooking tub may 

 be of any desired size. Ours holds five or six barrels, and 

 is made with a hinged valve ; and the food is dropped into 

 the cooling trough, where it is made of the proper consis- 

 tency by the addition of cold water, drawn from the cooling 

 trough, into a truck, and wheeled upon the platform, or 

 where desired, and then drawn into troughs. There is no 

 lifting of water or swill at any place. 



" Our piggery is very cheaply constructed. Large cedar 

 posts are sawn in half and set in the ground, for the frame- 

 work. Ribs, 2 by 4, are spiked to these posts, to which the 

 weather-boarding is nailed. The tops are sawn off to the 

 proper level, and the plates spiked to them, upon which the 

 rafters rest. These posts are set six feet apart ; and as our 

 breeding pens are six feet by ten, they form one side of 

 each compartment. The partitions are removed when not 

 wanted for breeding pens, and the whole space used as a 

 sleeping floor for the fattening of hogs or pigs. 



