TWELFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 337 



A hog farm properly equipped must have a fair-sized central hog 

 house. I spent considerable time in studying out the plans of my hog 

 house two years ago. This house is twenty-three feet wide and fifty feet 

 long, faces the south; pens seven by eight, and alley seven feet wide. 

 The partitions are all en hinges so they will swing around cross ways 

 and the cross pieces all on hinges so you can turn it from a dozen small 

 pens into two large ones. There is only one door which opens out into 

 the orchard and pasture beyond. I have two good-sized windows for 

 each pen in the south side and in the upper part two full windows. No 

 matter when the sun shines my hogs will get it. The floor is cement 

 throughout and level, but if I w^ere to build again I would build the 

 alley floor level and the. pens with about two or three inches slope. Then 

 in the summer time you could have a small pump and could wash it 

 perfectly clean and I believe it would be a good idea. I have a tank on 

 the ground and a large pump and it is easy to get what water I need. 

 The house is connected at one end with the barn and I have a chute 

 where I can pitch my bedding from the barn into the alley of the hog 

 house. At the south I have a crib and two bins and between the two 

 bins and the corn crib I have a sheller and a grinder and a four-horse- 

 power gasoline engine. I can shovel my com into the sheller from the 

 crib door and run it into either one of the bins and from the bin into 

 the grinder and back into the other bin and the meal and the w^ater 

 are only four' or five feet apart. 



But you can't get along with just one hog house, no matter how large 

 it is. A man should have some individual hog houses and perhaps some, 

 permanent smaller ones in other yards or pastures because you have 

 to divide your sows up, putting three or four together, and you can move 

 the individual hog houses into the different pastures on runners. I don't 

 use the individual hog houses for farrowing any more, because it is too 

 much work. It is easier to take care of them in the hog house without 

 going out into the weather, which means a good deal along in February 

 or March. 



In the discussion that followed Mr. "White's paper R. W. Hal- 

 ford said that he had a cement floor and found it satisfactory. 

 It is sanitary and easy to keep clean. He endorsed the cement 

 wallow. He simply made a ditch and put a wall about four inches 

 in the ground and run it about eight inches or ten inches above 

 the ground and then put in the floor about two inches thick. He 

 runs in the water every two or three days and the pigs run there 

 whenever they want to. He puts in a little dip or oil and doesn't 

 need to be afraid of any of his hogs dying with the heat. The 

 wallow is eight by ten and large enough to accommodate thirty or 

 forty shoats. For more than that you would have to make it 

 larger. He put a small tile at one end and made a plug for it so 

 he could let the water out, but sometimes the hogs rooted it out 

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