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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
A Cross Bara. 
If a largo number of hogs are to be kept it is better that there be a 
central building twenty-five feet square, sixteen feet of which is to be 
used as a room for the boiler and for storing and preparing the food. 
Extensions from this on every side ardHo be built twenty-five feet wide, 
and as long as necessary to accommodate any required number of hogs., 
A tight boJKnT four small iron wheels arranged so it will turn short 
corns^vill carry the food to every pen, which should of course be pro* 
vkted with a good trough, into which the feed may be easily poured. 
This with extensions, each forty feet long and twenty-five feet wide, will 
give you a cross barn, good for from 150 to .160 full grown hogs ; and 
these extensions may be carried out to .accommodate 500, if necessary, 
but if more than 100 hogs are to bo kept the central building should bo 
forty feet square, three stories high, the upper stories used as a granary 
with corn cribs next the outside. Twenty feet square should be given up 
for the storage and stove room below, and the breeding pens placed next 
on account of the greater warmth. In a building of this description near 
Chicago, wo for years kept and fed, in connection with a largo market 
garden, from 400 to 500 annually, the principal food used being the daily 
waste from large hotel kitchens, which we daily supplied with vegetables, 
the garden furnishing economically the necessary green vegetable food. 
We had no sickness or difficulty worth mentioning. The water supply 
Was ample and pure ; the pens were daily cleaned and washed in warm 
weather ; the drainage was carefully attended to ; salt and bituminous 
coal was supplied, so the hogs could take either at will, and we alwa} r s 
had fat hogs to supply city butchers, and the pigs were turned off at 
about eight or nine months old, weighing from 250 to 300 pounds each. 
This was about fifteen years ago, and the breeds then kept were Chester 
county sows, crossed with Yorkshire or Suffolk boars. 
A Simple Pen. 
When swine are only to be kept in pens during the period of final fat* 
tening, and are allowed to run at large in the fields in the Summer, a pen 
fourteen feet wide, and of sufficient length to accommodate the number 
of hogs kept, will suffice. It should be floored tight, and one-half of the 
width allowed for sleeping. These must be closed in and roofed, the 
feeding pen being open to the weather, the whole being divided into com- 
partments or spaces, eight feet one way, or wide enough for four hogs 
to feed abreast. This also is a good form when not more than a dozen 
hogs are to be kept. 
