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Show MAKES SLOPPING HOGS EASY Pen so Arranged That Animals Cannot Get at Trough While It Is Being Filled or Cleaned. I have a hog pen with trough so located lo-cated that the hogs cannot get at it while it is being filled. To make such a pen take corner posts of 2x4 and nail on lengths of 1x4 or 1x6 for sides and For Feeding Hogs. ends, writes N. S. Widders in the Missouri Mis-souri Valley Farmer. Make the usual V trough and nail securely to the bottom, bot-tom, board at one end of pen. Instead of boarding up. the pen tight at the trough end leave an open space the length of trough, -with a board across top and bottom, then make a gate and hinge to the top board on the inside. Take a short length of stout wood for a latch and bolt to the second board of gate, with one bolt. When you want to fill the trough turn the latch until it misses the trough, push the gate in till latch is beyond trough, then turn latch to upright position again. The hogs cannot bother you while you are cleaning the trough or pouring in the feed. |