The Largest Piggery in the World.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 145, 18 December 1896, Page 2

The Largest Piggery in the World.

Chicago has just built for itself a new piggery, which is the largest in the world. In the language of the West, it is a " 600,000 hog house," and is a new addition to the stockyards of the city. It has taken two years to build, and is capable of holding 220,000 pigs, for which all the uaost recent improvements and a perfect water supply have been provided. It contains no fewer than 36 blocks of 100 pens each, on two floors one above the other ; it is in two parallel sections each 3,000 feet long, and connected with each other by twenty-two door passage ways. It covers forty. nine acres, and in its construction 18,000,000 ft of pine, besides oak girders throughout, have been used, while between 400 and 500 workmen have been employed in its erection. Seven railway companies have sidings from which pigs will be delivered into the gigantic piggery, and for the offices of these two two-storey buildings have been erected, one at each end of the " hog house." It haa been built in consequence of the inadequacy of the old house, and will give accommodation for 75,000 head more pigs.