. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . OR TOYARD FIG. 73—DETAIL OF PEN FLOOR SHOWING PIPING IN FARROWING PENS where the hosing out of the trough is likely to wash the ad-jacent floor. A bell trap should never be placed in the penfloor, as this becomes foul beyond description. The pen shoulddrain to the outside through the pen door and then into acontinuous
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . OR TOYARD FIG. 73—DETAIL OF PEN FLOOR SHOWING PIPING IN FARROWING PENS where the hosing out of the trough is likely to wash the ad-jacent floor. A bell trap should never be placed in the penfloor, as this becomes foul beyond description. The pen shoulddrain to the outside through the pen door and then into acontinuous gutter, run the length of the piggery. Where thepiggery connects immediately with the manure pit, the drain only through the door and then into the manure 198 MODERN FARM BUILDINGS pit. Care should be taken to locate the piggery on high, well-drained ground, so that a dry building may at all times be as-sured. A bell trap in the passageway is necessary, though asjust pointed out, one must never be put inside the pen. A very necessary thing in the farrowing pens is a 2-in. piperailing 10 in. out from the side walls and the same height abovethe floor; this prevents the sow from rolling over on one ofher progeny and killing it. The pipe rail keeps her away from. SECTION ATTROUQH FIG. 74—SECTION THROUGH FEED-ING TROUGHS the wall and gives the little one a space through which he mayescape. The pen partition walls are best made of concrete,troweled to a hard smooth finish. The feeding-troughs aremade as shown in Fig. 74. A door hung at the top and swing-ing over the trough, makes it possible to separate the animalfrom the feed while it is being prepared. When the meal isready the door is swung to the outside of the trough, whenthe trough itself comes within the is curious to note that in an old volume on farm buildings, OTHER BUILDINGS 199 published in 1833,1 which the author picked up in a second-hand book store in Oxford, the pig trough is shown arrangedin ju
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