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C Dale teamed up at Lafayette, Ind , to sec how the pigs could be re habilitated for uiban living They built four housing set ups The first was a convention al hog house with fenced lot Manure and othei wastes were washed down a pipe into a 40- by 40-foot lagoon The second house was insulat ed. ventilated, and equipped with a concrete floor, except for slots at the rear covering a manure pit Manure collecting in the pit was pumped automa tically into a septic tank The liquid overflow from the tank also ran into a lagoon The thir house was much like the second, except that wastes were pumped into a liquid man ure spreader and deposited on adjacent farm land The fourth house also was similar to the second, except that the entire building was built over part of a lagoon Manure dropped into Salunga Stevens Feed Mill, Inc. Leola Hydraulic power keeps you on the go even if one, two, three, or more bottoms hit a rock. Each standard has exclusive dual-pivot design. 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D. it 2, Quarryville, Pa. 17566 ( 7i7) jiikl the water was not only odoilcss, but even looked fairly clean Spi ending ni.mme on the field was the second best altci native Flies in the house of the thud setup also died out within 30 days Theie was no pond, and (heiefoic no tiouble fiom pond bicd mosquitoes Odoi was bad, of couise, on days inanuic was spiead The house built ovei pait of a lagoon was the smelliest It also had a model ate fly piob lem, with infestation steady through the summer at about 500 flies Mosquitoes, however, disappeared from the lagoon for the same reason that the odor was so strong- so little oxygen was available in the water that the larvae suffocated. The standard house and lot (Continued on Page 24) 21
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