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flush on the surface. 'J"*) make this grout, mix three jjarts sand to one part 

 cement into ordliKif.v nKU'tar. then in a half bucket of water mix sufficient 

 mortar to make the grout just thin enough to run into the joints. Previous 

 to pouring in the cement grout, throw a ivw l)uckcts of water over the floor 

 to wet all the bricks, to prevent them from absorbing the moisture out of the 

 grout too quickly. The floor must, of course, be graded to the back to an 

 open gutter, to carry ofi' all drainage. On-this brick floor, portable batten 

 floors, as previously described on page 8G1 (1907), may be laid in sections to 

 make them easier to handle. 



Fencing. 



The fencing" of the runs may be of posts, with to^) rail, J]-! inches high 

 (for sows), a barb wire on the ground, a No. 8 wire 24 inches up. and iJ-t in. 

 X 4 in. mesh, and 14-gauge wire-netting threaded on the wires and 

 stapled to the posts. The cost of this fencing (for material only) would be 

 be about 13s. per chain. On the front line, sun-shade and feed-pens ma.v 

 be constructed with a few saplings and bushes. Houses and runs thus 

 arranged, the pigs can have the whole of the house room, while only one of 

 the runs is being used: the other may he sweetening up for a few weeks. 



A Portable House. 



Where it is desired to use pigs to feed oft' crops and improve the land, 

 shelter is very necessary, and nothing better can be on hand for this purpose 

 than a portable house. 



Fig. 20. Portable pig-house. 



Fig. 20 shows one 12 ft. x s ft., huilt lightly, but strongly, of sawn timber 

 frame, on ^S in. \ '■'> in. hardwood slci'iiers as slides, and boarded on the sides 

 and ends with i)inc weatherboards, and on the roof with ^/o-inch match 

 boarding. A drop tlap-dooi- on the front ])rovides a gangway for the pigs 

 to walk into the house on. and fasten them in if rccpiired. The floor is of 

 battens % inch apart to allow the di-ainage to soak through. Drag chains 



