HOG 



personal property. The individual house is quickly and 

 cheaply built, easily moved and located wherever desired, is 

 useful both to the general farmer and to the breeder of pure- 

 breed stock, and only the simplest kind of workmanship is 

 necessary to build it. 



The large hog house is so arranged as to have a num- 

 ber of pens, each containing a sow and her litter. It is a 

 comparatively durable building and possesses some advan- 

 tageous points for the careful hog raiser. Excellent sanita- 

 tion can be secured in a substantially built house of this type 

 in spite of its size. The swine may be handled very easily 

 and conveniently and the plan of the pens may be such that 

 feeding can be done with very little labor. With removable 

 partitions, the house may be divided into farrowing pens or 

 the partitions may be omitted, thus providing for an abun- 

 dance of light. In bad weather the feeding of hogs in a large, 

 centralized house is much more convenient than when they 

 are scattered about the lots in a number of smaller buildings. 



It is possible that many farmers will find that their 

 needs are best met by a combination of the centralized house 

 and a few individual ones. The peculiar advantages and dis- 

 advantages which each may possess may be so equalized in 

 the combination as to make the combined system a very 

 efficient arid practical one. 



SMALL PORTABLE HOUSES 



Figures 1, 2 and 3 show designs of small portable hog 

 houses. The construction details are clearly indicated in 

 these drawings so the average carpenter should have no diffi- 

 culty whatever in using them. 



In Fig. 1, the "A" shape, is a type of hog house that 

 is perhaps more widely used than any other, since its con- 

 struction is very simple. The framing consists of 2 x 4's 

 mounted upon a 2-inch floor nailed to 4x4 runners. An 

 end doorway is provided through which the swine may enter 

 the house. On one of the sloping sides are set two doors 

 which open to the side. These may be hinged at the top if 

 desired, but it is better to have them hinged at the side, since 

 w T ith the latter arrangement a greater amount of sunlight 



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