Word: pigpen
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...mixed by electrical machinery. Humming motors run corn-husking devices. Electric clocks dump pecks of oats into feed bins at 5 a. m. Electricity warms incubators where motors revolve the eggs periodically. Chicks are automatically herded under ultraviolet rays to ward off the pip. Electric heaters keep the pigpen cosy...
...with a great many chickens laying for him will usually take his small boys out around the haycocks, the mangers, back of the pigpen, under the icehouse, the wagons and the currant bushes, to show them all the nests and how to collect the eggs, carry them carefully, set them down uncracked in the dairy ready for market. After the boys know their job, the man is free to go off and saw wood or milk his cows...