A PIGGERY.—TO KILL LICE ON CATTLE. 
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mg them perfectly secure against overthrow by 
winds or unruly cattle. It would avoid the ne¬ 
cessity of double posts where the sections joined, 
by substituting mortices to receive the boards, by 
Avhich each end-post should be made to admit the 
end boards of double sections, and the convenience 
of moving by withdrawing the boards, would be 
thus facilitated. R. L. Allen. 
Buffalo , 10th March , 1844. 
The above was forwarded us at the time of its 
date, the writer not having at that time seen any¬ 
thing of a similar kind, which has since appeared 
in other papers. 
A PIGGERY. 
Tn constructing a piggery, I went upon the prin¬ 
ciple that a judicious outlay of capital upon a farm 
in necessary buildings or other improvements, in¬ 
creases in a much greater ratio than the interest, 
the productiveness of the capital already invested ; 
and also, that to farm profitably, there must be a 
regular system in the management of every branch 
of business. Thus, there should be a place for 
horses, carriages, harness, grain, and hay, all un¬ 
der one roof if possible ; and in like manner, for all 
other kinds of stock; and in particular, a place 
where we can keep swine, from the pig to the 
porker, with all their feed convenient and at hand. 
A Pjggery. — Fig. 43. 
A, B, front, 60 feet by 20, the part A, 2 stories, or 13 feet 
posts; the other part C, C, rear for pens, 30 feet 
square, 7 feet posts; 5, 5, &c., pens 13 by 10, alley 4 
feet wide ; v, v v, v, vats on a level with pens ; 1 , safe¬ 
ty valve ; 2, steam-pipe; 3, supply-barrel to boiler b ; 
/, furnace ; p, platform, part over boiler; 4 , chimney, 
8 inch stove-pipe, with damper; t, drain; w, water- 
cistern ; g, door to cellar; s, s } stairs; d, d , doors; 6,65 
&c., scuttles to cellar; y, y , &c., yards to pens. 
The piggery is designed for fattening from 50 to 
60 pigs annually, and the fixtures have been made 
with that reference. By the annexed plan, it will 
be seen that it has a front of 60 by 20 feet; the 
first 30 feet having 13 feet posts, the other 30 feet 
but 7 feet posts. The first floor presents a room 
50 by 20 feet, 10 feet from one end being taken for 
a boiling-room, or rather for a furnace and boiler, 
as ail the cooking is done on the floor which is on 
a level with the pens. The rear is 30 feet square, 
6 feet posts, an alley 4 feet wide through the cen¬ 
tre. There are 3 pens on each side, 10 by 13 feet, 
each pen will accommodate 7 large hogs, or 8 mid¬ 
dling sized ones, while fattening. 
Under the main building is a cellar 20 by 60, 
8 feet deep, 10 feet from the east, and is walled 
out and no floor laid over it. Here is a boiler 
made from sheet-iron, not so thick as boiler-iron, 
but a medium between that and stove-pipe iron, 
6 feet long and 24 inches in diameter, set in brick¬ 
work. It has a safety-valve, and water and steam- 
cocks, &c., and is capable of working 45 inches, 
but is never used beyond 18 or 20. The steam is car¬ 
ried from the boiler to a series of vats on the floor 
adjoining, constructed as follows: The outside is of 
2-inch pine-plank, 12 feet long in the clear, grooved, 
matched, and keyed together into one bin or vat 3 
feet deep, and 4 feet wide. It is divided into four 
equal parts by tight partitions of the same materi¬ 
al, so that we have 4 vats 3 feet deep, 3 feet wide, 
and 4 feet long, holding about 7 barrels of liquid, or 
22 bushels of vegetables. All the food is cooked 
in these vats by the steam, and fed thence to the 
hogs. All unnecessary labor is saved, as the food 
does not have to be handled after filling the vats 
until it is fed out. 
The building is double-boarded, the floor over 
the cellar is lined and has scuttles. The hog-pen 
is also double-boarded ; the front fitted with swing- 
doors, so that the hog can go out and in at pleas¬ 
ure, and still keep the building warm. Over each 
door is a window 6 lighted of 7 by 9 glass; at¬ 
tached to each pen is a yard 12 feet square. Two 
of the pens have double-doors, and can be used 
for tying up cattle. A floor is laid over-head, 
which gives a fine room for storing soft-corn or 
other food. The second story is very valuable for 
a storage room. The cellar will hold a large 
quantity of roots and apples. Thus we have a 
place to keep our hogs and their feed, whether 
green or dry, and prepare it all under the same 
roof. The piggery has been in operation four 
years, and has fully answered our expectations in 
every particular. T. C. Peters. 
Darien , TV. Y. 
To kill Lice on Cattle.— Mr. Starr, of New 
Jersey, informs us, that scattering buckwheat flour 
plentifully over lousy animals, is an effectual 
cure for them. We presume other kinds of flour 
would do just as well. One of the best things we 
ever tried, was rubbing our stock well with rancid 
lard, or whale, or tanner’s oil. The Boston Cul¬ 
tivator recommends washing the animal a few 
times with a decoction of red-cedar bark. 
