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Show FEED TROUGH IS CONVENIENT Piece of Galvanized Iron and Few Boards Make Handy Device for Uso at Farrowing Time. By securing a ploco of galvanized Iron, 18 by 22 inches, af tho hardwaro storo at a cost of not to oxcoed 20 cents, and a plcco of board 1 by C Inches and 5 foot long, a trough can bo mado that will provo vory convenient conven-ient nt farrowing tlmo, says a North Dakota wrltor In tho Farmor. Cut tho 5-foot board into four parts, two 18 inches long, each, for tho ends, and tho remaining two cut into soml- ' ' &JQhcft? Light Trough for Hogs. circles 10 inches in diameter. Nail thoso piecoB togothor, using tho semicircles semi-circles for tho form of tho trough. Tho shoot Iron Is thon bent Into theso forms to mako tho body of tho trough. A 1 by 2-inch strip nailed botweon tho ends closo to tho outsldo edge of tho iron, to which it may bo tacked, adds greatly to tho strength of tho trough. Tho abovo makes a very con-vonlont, con-vonlont, light and economical trough for farrowing tlmo and has glvon tho wrltor very satisfactory results. |