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large experimental hog house at that station. It will be 

 noted that the pens are unusually large, perhaps larger than 

 the average swine raiser would consider necessary or advis- 

 able. However, the house can be reduced in size and the pens 

 made smaller. If the width of the house be made 24 feet 

 instead of 30 feet, the length of the individual pens can be. 

 made 8 feet ; the width can be made anything desired though 

 6 feet should be sufficient, not only in providing room for a 

 sow and pigs, but in allowing ample space for a doorway and 

 for a feeding trough along the driveway. 



This type of house should be built with the windows 

 facing the south. The illustration shows but one window 

 for each pen; this number can well be doubled, for in cold 

 weather or early spring plenty of heat and sunshine are 

 needed. In order to make the house warmer, the outer walls 

 can be made of double sheathing. For low cost, one layer 

 of the wood may be omitted, but in case it is, a layer of build- 

 ing paper should take its place on the inside. 



Numerous materials have been used for flooring hog 

 houses, but none of them have proven so entirely satisfac- 

 tory as wood. The ordinary plank floor is likely to be un- 

 sanitary, however, and for this reason it is recommended 

 that where practicable it be replaced with a creosoted wood 

 block floor as shown in the illustration. The floor of the 

 central driveway is preferably made of concrete and pro- 

 vided with drain tile beneath the floor to carry the drainage 

 from the pens. As will be noted, the floor of the pens slope 

 to the edge of the central driveway where a shallow water 

 drain is provided. 



Fig. 6 shows the principles and details of construction 

 of a highly practical form of large hog house. It has been 

 used with excellent results in practice, and on several ac- 

 counts is to be strongly recommended. The framing is 

 extremely simple, and since the building is hexagonal in 

 shape the different members of the traming are partly self- 

 supporting. With the arrangement shown in the plan, it 

 makes an excellent house for sheltering sows and pigs or for 

 feeding shoats. The partitions between the pens are remov- 



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