The model farms and their methods : giving the experiences of over one hundred successful farmers in the various branches of husbandry in different portions of the country; stock raising; fruit growing; dairying; title drainage; cost and profits of mixed husbandry, etc With over one hundred illustrations and plans of buildings . Door. S. OWelU GRANARY. N. (0 a GRAIN BINS. ao cS 1 ^ 1 ?d Alley. Door. fl o g. (0 ^ GRAIN BINS. 34 530 BLACKHAWK COUNTY, IOWA. My buildings are well sheltered from wind, by artificialgroves of cotton wood and soft maple, with a few rows of birch,larch, and Norway spru
The model farms and their methods : giving the experiences of over one hundred successful farmers in the various branches of husbandry in different portions of the country; stock raising; fruit growing; dairying; title drainage; cost and profits of mixed husbandry, etc With over one hundred illustrations and plans of buildings . Door. S. OWelU GRANARY. N. (0 a GRAIN BINS. ao cS 1 ^ 1 ?d Alley. Door. fl o g. (0 ^ GRAIN BINS. 34 530 BLACKHAWK COUNTY, IOWA. My buildings are well sheltered from wind, by artificialgroves of cotton wood and soft maple, with a few rows of birch,larch, and Norway spruce. I have four acres of grass. I havea young orchard of four hundred and fifty apple trees whichare just coming into bearing. W. H. COLBURN, WATERLOO, BLACKHAWK COUNTY. Plan of a Hog Barn^ at Lester, Blackhawk County. I consider this hog barn as near perfection as possible. Aboiler occupies one corner, having a water tank and steamer, inwhich to cook feed, set in an DoorTront of the Trough. The tank is connected by a pipe to a windmill pump, sothat water can be run into the tank, boiler, or troughs, at troughs run the whole length of the pens, on each side ofthe alley. The pens are double, and the front part or sectionis used for feeding, and the rear opens .into the yard for theremoval of the offal, which is easily cleaned out by throwingit through the small door below the space marked door front of the trough is hung by a round tenon at DESCRIPTION OF HOG BARN. 531 each end, and is made fast by a pin. It can be swung backover the trough, crowding the hogs back, so they can notget into the trough when being fed. Tlie hogs He in the outerpens much of the time and only come into the feeding part to befed, so that that section is kept clean at all times. The pens areconnected with doors; thus the hogs can be removed from onesection to another, readily. At one end of the building is ashute for loading hogs into Avagons when carried
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