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MR. AYRAULT’S TWIN STEERS. 
house and piggery. Both are 14 feet long, and 12 
feet wide, the posts 10 feet. 
The ground plan of the first building contains 
the arch A, for cooking, where boilers and steam¬ 
ers will be placed sufficiently large to accommodate 
the number of hogs to be fed. The feeding troughs 
also, T, T, is included in the same building, 
which is made of white-oak plank, and extends the 
whole length of the house, except the space occu¬ 
pied by the tubs, or vats, I, I, which are conve¬ 
nient for the cooked food, swill, &c. One of 
them may contain the warm food, the other in a 
process of fermentation, to be fed at any time. 
The dots on the yard side of the house and feeding | 
trough, T, T, represent standards of iron, or white 
oak, arranged along and close to the outside of the 
trough, at suitable distances to allow the heads of 
the swine to pass between them into the feeding 
trough. The sill, on this side of the house, is rais¬ 
ed and framed to the posts two feet above the com¬ 
mon level of the other sills, and these, standards, or 
pins, which prevent the hogs from getting into the 
trough, or house, are framed into the sill above, 
and the feeding trough ; the plank which forms the 
bottom of the trough may project on the outer side 
for that purpose, or the plank may be of such 
thickness as to enter the upper edge. 
B. B, B, are bins for apples and roots, in each of 
which a window opens for the purpose of shovel¬ 
ling them in, two of which are seen in the upright 
part. The hog’s are to lodge in the pen, and can 
pass from their apartments, P, P, through 
yards, Y, Y, to the feeding trough, T, T. A par¬ 
tition divides the sty, or open yard, and extends 
across the piggery, forming two sleeping apart¬ 
ments, P, P, and two yards, Y, Y; six doors and 
passage ways opposite, D, D, D, D, D, D. The 
main door in the piggery opens into the passage, 
X, 2| feet wide, for the convenience of the attendant 
to carry in straw, &c. The open yards may be 
used for litter, and to manufacture manure; these 
occupy the space enclosed between the two up¬ 
right buildings, and are 16 feet long. 
The floor of each building and the yard should 
be flagged with stone, 
or brick, secured from 
frost. The sills of the 
two main buildings are 
to be raised upon a 
wall 18 inches. A 
cellar may be con¬ 
structed under the first 
building for the stor¬ 
age of roots; if seven 
feet deep, will hold 
600 bushels, allow¬ 
ing 2,420 cubic inches 
to the bushel. A con¬ 
venient wheel and 
windlass is arranged 
in the loft of this 
house, for handling 
the hogs at the time of 
killing, and may be 
convenient for dress¬ 
ing other animals. 
There are many pig¬ 
geries in this state, constructed about 
30 feet long and 20 feet wide, which 
contain all the cooking apparatus, the 
hogs, grain in the loft, and sometimes 
a wool room which form a complete 
nuisance. I am opposed to feeding 
swine in close buildings, where they 
make their litter, and cooking food 
under the same roof. The effluvia 
cannot be very pleasant for man 
nor beast.— Transactions of the N. Y. 
State Ag. Society. 
S. W. Jewett. 
Weyhridge , Ft, Nov. 1 5th, 1847. 
MR. AYRAULT’S TWIN STEERS. 
The twin steers, of which an account is annex¬ 
ed, were fattened by Hon. A. Ayrault, of Geneseo, 
Livingston county, and were exhibited in Albany, 
last winter, for a few days. When on their way 
to New York, they were considered by those who 
saw them here, as the best pair of fat cattle ever 
shown in this city. One of the animals was pro¬ 
nounced by the butchers, and others, who are good 
judges, as the most perfect fat animal they had ever 
seen, and this animal when killed, fully justified, 
we are told, the opinion expressed, in the quality 
of his meat, which was very superior. 
They were slaughtered in New York, by Mr. B. 
Lawrence, of the Centre Market. Tbeir live 
weight, was 5,522 lbs.—their dressed weight— 
| quarters 3,450—tallow 512—hides 214=4,376 lbs. 
I It will be seen by the description annexed, that they 
PLAN OF A PIGGERY.- FlG. 85. 
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