. Biggle swine book. Swine. [from old catalog]. THE PIGGERY. 53 grain descends through the feed chute. There is a door P between the cook room and shed. The corn crib is three feet at the bottom, and four at the top. The slats on the outside run up and down. The open- ing into the alleyway is a sKding door. As shown here the house has four pens, but it can be continued on the same general plan until it has twenty. This pen is double boarded w^ith wide boards and heavy building paper in between. The flue for the stove is shown in the cooking room. The piggery of a Brattleboro, Vermont, institut
. Biggle swine book. Swine. [from old catalog]. THE PIGGERY. 53 grain descends through the feed chute. There is a door P between the cook room and shed. The corn crib is three feet at the bottom, and four at the top. The slats on the outside run up and down. The open- ing into the alleyway is a sKding door. As shown here the house has four pens, but it can be continued on the same general plan until it has twenty. This pen is double boarded w^ith wide boards and heavy building paper in between. The flue for the stove is shown in the cooking room. The piggery of a Brattleboro, Vermont, institution which cost |8ooo is here shown. There are forty pens. A MODEL PIGGERY. in all, twenty on each side of a central alleyway. The pens are eight by thirteen feet with yards eight by twelve feet. The entry is twelve and one-half feet wide. The building is cemented throughout. In the building at the end are the steam boiler and slaughter-house. The building accommodates 200 pigs. Six pens near- est the steam boiler are heated by steam for farrowing sows. All pens slope towards the yard. It has all the desirable features, such as sliding doors operated by rope and pulleys, ventilation, swinging trough doors to keep the pigs away^ while the food is being put in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, Wilmer Atkinson co.
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