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not fall on the floor of the pens where it is needed by the 

 pigs. 



The hog-house should run east and west, so that it may 

 have one full side exposed to the sun. This arrangement 

 will necessitate having one row of pens along the north side. 

 In order to get sunlight into the north pens, the ''broken 

 roof style of building is used. Care must be taken to place 

 both upper and lower windows at such a height that the 

 sunlight will reach the floor during the winter and early 

 spring months, which are the farrowing season. 



To do this, the angle of the sun, say in February and 

 March, and the width of the building must be carefully com- 

 puted. At the latitude of southern Iowa, or central Illinois, 

 Indiana, Ohio and Nebraska, the tops of the upper win- 

 dows of a hog-house twenty feet wide should be ten and 

 one-half feet from the ground. If the north pens are eight 

 feet long, and the alley is four feet wide, the sunshine will 

 just reach the back line of the pens at ten o'clock and at two 

 o'clock on the first of March. Care to such details will save 

 the lives of many young pigs farrowed in the early spring. 



Individual hog cots. Many hog raisers are now pro- 

 viding two types of hog-houses, the large permanent house 

 for farrowing purposes, and the small individual cot for 

 the sows and their litters as soon as the latter are old enough 

 to be put out-of-doors. The individual cots may be scattered 

 about the lot or pasture, and moved as often as necessary 

 to keep the quarters clean. For winter service the cots 

 can be collected side by side in a sheltered place, banked 

 and used for sleeping quarters. 



The feeding floor. The use of a sanitary feeding- 

 floor should be much more common than it is. It is a 

 great waste of grain to scatter it in the mud or dust of a 

 dirt yard. This mode of feeding is also injurious to the 

 health of the pigs, for it compels them to breathe in a great 



