Harris on the pig. Breeding, rearing, management, and improvement by Harris Joseph

Author:Harris, Joseph. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Swine. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd company
Published: 1883-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

HARRIS ON THE PIG.

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gentle slope from the wall, and the old hole, where the former pig pen stood, was raised in the same way. This gave us a dry foundation. As we have said, the wall was built 6 feet high, but, by the time we had scraped out the basin, and put the dirt on the side of the wall, we had raised the land 18 inches, or 2 feet. In other words, the land on the east side, towards the barn-yard, was nearly 2 feet higher than on the opposite side of the wall. The underdrain alluded to, runs along the side of the wall, on the west side, outside the bam-yard, and now, instead of needing India rubber boots, we can walk around in slippers.

On the top of the wall, a stick of timber was placed, and we proceeded to put up a common shed, with roof boards, 14 feet long, and battened in the ordinary way. Of course the roof slopes towards the wall, so as to carry the water outside of the barn-yard, where it soaks through the soil to the underdrain. This shed is divided off into pig pens, as shown in the diagram, figure 31.

The pens are 12 feet deep, and 16 feet Avide. (It would have been better to have had the roof boards 16 feet long instead of 14 feet, as it would have added very little to the expense, and would have given us pens 14 feet deep.) Between each two pens is an alley, 3 feet wide, boarded up on each side about 3 feet high. The pig trough is placed along-side these partitions, and the food is poured into it from the alley.

Each pen is divided off into two parts—one for sleeping, and the other for feeding. The sleeping apartment is boarded up tight, with a sliding door, against the wall. One of the boards that forms the partition between the feeding and sleeping apartment is hung on hinges, so that it can be opened or shut, according to the weather. It is fastened by a common wooden button. One of the boards which form the outside of the pen is hung in the same way. This is very important, as it enables us to give an abundance of fresh air in warm weather, and we can close

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