Loading Pigs with Grate

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 December 1915, Page 3

Loading Pigs with Grate

For loading pigs (writes an American fanner) I use a crate without a floor. This I place over the pig or lot it through the door in the end. Two planks 10 to 12 feet long are used instead of a chute, one end resting in the •ond of the"'waggon box and the other on the ground. I then take hold of tire cart and slide it up cite phmfcs, witih the ( pig walking "backwards. As the crate touches his nose ho will "walk Lack up the planks and into the waggon. I then pass a mp*; over the ci'ato and fasten jt down, ll the ifig is to be loaded into" a car, i set one end of the plan,ks on the waggon and the oilier in the car door, and slide' the crate along the planks into the car. 1 have -loaded pigs alone in this way that weighed 600 lbs. .v •crate ..used for tTiis purpose shouler •l»e. made with slate close together 3tf that "the pig cannot get its. nose beiweoii them.