. Barn plans and outbuildings . ed room. The pens are ten feet three inches by sevenfeet in size. A BRICK PIGGERY FOR COLD CLIMATES The hog house of the Minnesota Experiment Stationat St. Anthony Park, shown in Figures 150 and 151,is built of brick and is 102 feet in its longest dimensionsby twenty-eight feet wide. A wing to be put on the eastend in the near future will be used for feeding experi-ments or for breeding pens if necessary. The walls arc 168 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUiLDlNGS nine inches thick, being made out of ordinary buildingbrick, with an inch of air space in the center. This haspro
. Barn plans and outbuildings . ed room. The pens are ten feet three inches by sevenfeet in size. A BRICK PIGGERY FOR COLD CLIMATES The hog house of the Minnesota Experiment Stationat St. Anthony Park, shown in Figures 150 and 151,is built of brick and is 102 feet in its longest dimensionsby twenty-eight feet wide. A wing to be put on the eastend in the near future will be used for feeding experi-ments or for breeding pens if necessary. The walls arc 168 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUiLDlNGS nine inches thick, being made out of ordinary buildingbrick, with an inch of air space in the center. This hasproved a very satisfactory wall, and seems to be frostproof. The house is dry and well ventilated during thewinter. The ceiling is eight feet in the clear and goodstorage room is provided above for straw and feed. The pens are eight and one-half by eleven feet, withsolid partitions between them of two-inch planks, dressed,and painted. The fronts are made of heavy wire mesh,giving good light and aiding materially in ventilating the. Fig. 150—HOG BARN AT MINNESOTA EXPERIMENT FARM building. The floors are cement, except in the corners ofthe breeding pens, where a nest five by six feet has beenleft with a dirt floor. This is to guard against rheumatismin the winter time, and is satisfactory except that thehogs sometimes root up the nest considerably. A few ofthe pens have been paved with brick within two inchesof the top of the floor, and bedding kept over that. Forsummer this is entirely satisfactory. A slight raise inthe floor around the outside of the nest prevents the waterrunning into it and insures a dry nest always. Immediately over each nest and opening into the loftis a trap door a foot and n half square. During warm MINNESOTA HOG BARN 159 weather and even in the winter time this is left open toprovide good ventilation and make a convenient way ofgetting bedding into the nest without littering up thehouse. Sliding doors at the outside connect with brickpaved yards that are
Size: 2358px × 1060px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectarchitecturedomestic
