482 FEEDING ANIMALS. 



ter to grind the corn in the ear, leaving the cob to give bulk 

 in the stomach, and cook the meal into the most palatable 

 mush, for 200 or more hogs. And, that the cooked food 

 may be handled with the least labor, two box-cars, on wheels 

 two feet high, each car being five feet wide, three feet high 

 and sixteen feet long, holding about 200 bushels, are re- 

 quired. There is a track in the middle of the feeding floor 

 on which these cars are run. One of these cars, when full, 

 weighing some four tons, may be handled by one man, and 

 run along the track, so as to feed the pigs upon either side 

 of the feeding floor. A small rope runs the whole length of 

 the feeding floor and is fastened at the other end, whilst at 

 the car end it runs over a small pulley or windlass, and with 

 crank the feeder moves the car along from pen to pen. The 

 mush, when thin enough, runs through a spout to the 

 trough in the pen on either side. The feeder soon learns 

 how to apportion it to each pen. The car, when full, con- 

 tains 40 bushels of meal, 20 bushels of cut clover-hay and 

 640 gallons of water, or 16 gallons for each bushel of meal. 

 The water is pumped by the engine into an elevated tank, 

 holding the requisite quantity, which is heated nearly to 

 the boiling point in the tank, and then drawn into the car 

 through a pipe. There are marks inside the car to indicate 

 each hundred gallons, so as to show the feeder when he has 

 the requisite quantity. This water is brought to a brisk 

 boil in the car, when the meal may be sifted into the boil- 

 ing water through a sieve suspended above. The meal, 

 when ground, is elevated into a hopper over the sieve, and, 

 being drawn through the spout upon the sieve whilst that 

 is swung back and forth, the meal is sifted evenly into the 

 boiling water in the car, and no lumps are formed. After 

 the meal is sifted in, one-half bushel of cut clover-hay to 

 each bushel of meal is mixed in with a rake. When the 

 mush is too thick to run it is taken out with a scoop and 

 put into the troughs. We have found the best way to ap- 



