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troughs are placed is weatlier-boarded up and down, 

 but the siding- only extends down eight feet from the 

 eaves, this leaving a space of three feet between the 

 bottom end of the siding and the ground, through which 

 space the hogs eat out of the trough. The openings on 

 the sides above the troughs are sliding windows for 

 throwing ear corn to the platform. If shelled corn is 

 used it can be fed in the troughs. With this arrange- 

 ment as descril)ed tlie feeding can all be done from in- 

 side the house and it is impossible for the hogs to dirty 

 or waste the feed ; besides, the partitions in the troughs 

 prevent the hogs from iighting and pushing one another, 

 and it is much less work to clean the feeding pens when 

 they are outside of tlic building. 



A NEBKASKAN'S HOG HOUSE 



The description iierewith and two illustrations it con- 

 tains pertain to a house and adjacent feeding pens 

 built by \\\ E. Tobias of Custer County, Nebraska, as 

 published in the Nebraska Farmer. The house is 14 

 feet 8 inches wide by 100 feet long, with 5-foot posts 

 on the low side and 12-foot on the high side. There 

 is a \-cntilator in tlie roof every 8 feet. The building 

 is all floored with 2-inch plank. There is a side door 2 

 feet wide in each pen to open into outside pens which 

 are of the same width as the inside pens. The inside 

 pens are 4x10 feet; outside pens, 4x12 feet. These out- 

 side pens also have a slide door 2 feet wide which opens 

 into a large yard. These inside doors slide up and down 

 1)}- means of a small rope and a pulley fastened to the 

 plate above the duor. The other end of the rope is 



