66 REPORT OF THE First ASSISTANT OF THE 
painted two coats. The accompanying drawing gives a general 
plan of the building. | 
The ground floor-of the old cattle barn, underneath the whole 
extent of which was a pool of liquid manure and mud, has been 
torn out and rebuilt into a series of pig pens. The stone wall 
separating this floor from the basement of the main part of the old 
barn was removed. Part of this basement, which has been a — 
store-room for rubbish of all sorts, was also filled with pig pens, 
and the dilapidated stone wall without windows, on the west end, 
was replaced by a low wall and wooden siding, in which are four 
windows. It being considered undesirable to have cattle on the 
same floor with swine, the whole ground floor has been left for pig 
pens, and the bull stalls built on the second floor. In this story, 
which is separated from the basement by a tight floor, a water- 
tight platform was built and on this were constructed five stalls, - 
each six feet wide by seven feet long. At the front and rear of 
each partition is a six by six inch oak post. In a horizontal stick, 
six inches square, in front of the mangers, are ringed bolts to 
which the bulls are fastened by chains which are attached to a 
collar. On the floor of each stall are hard-wood slats, two inches 
wide, one and one-quarter inches apart, one inch thick at the front 
end and thick enough at the other to overcome the fall of the plat- 
form which is two inches in six feet. The drawings show the ~ 
general plan of the stalls, and the plan, location and arrangement 
of the pig pens and yards. They also indicate the locations and 
general ground plans of the other buildings. 
The pig pens have an average size of about nine by ten feet and 
all adjoining pens are connected by doors. The partitions and - 
sides are three feet ten inches high, and those of the boar pens, 
four feet high with a gas-pipe rail one foot above. Under every 
alternate partition, which is separated by a half-inch space from 
the floor, is an open cement gutter, toward which the tight floors - 
of the adjoining pens incline. The open gutters empty into small 
cistern traps which are on a line of glazed tile connecting with the 
large cisterns of the manure platform. An iron pipe connecjs the 
gutter of the bull stalls with this system of glazed tile, the loca- 
tion of which is shown by the dotted lines of the drawing. 
The sliding doors opening into the passage-way and those con- — 
uecting the pens are lifted by means of a rope over a small pulley — 
at the ceiling. The doors opening into the yards swing on 
