Pig Neighbors That Don't Offend
A septic tank for hog houses issue was far from academic
makes feasible the mixing of Purdue University researchers
swine farms and suburban hous- W oi king on contract with ARS
mg without bothering human found that, like many commor*
neighbors with objectionable cial fanncis who once inisc pigs
odors and pesky insects far fiom town, they weie being
The project investigating this surrounded by ramblers and
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fore they started complaining
about the pigs next door
Swine specialist II W Jones,
entomologist R. C Dobson, and
agricultural engineer A. 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
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the lagoon through slots in the
floor of the house,
Scientists scicencd all houses
and the single lot. eradicated
insects inside, and icintioduccd
500 fly pupae into each house to
gam a standaid infestation
They scicencd the lagoons at
the second and foui th houses,
exterminated the mosquitoes,
and spread 500 mosquito larvae
The lagoon with the first house
was left unscreened and un
treated, to have a natural mos
quito infestation for compari
son.
Odor was recorded bom sub
jectively and objectively using
standard tests for alkalinity and
oxygen content of lagoon water.
The septic tank built into the
second setup best solved the
problems of insects and odor
Flies in the house died within
30 days. Only an occasional mos
quito was noticed on the lagoon.
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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
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