968 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



from the ground, and the floor from a foot to eighteen inches 

 lower than that of the house. It will be necessary to make 

 a bridge furnished with cleats to prevent the hogs from slipping 

 as they pass from the lower floor to that of the house. In this 

 outside pen we keep a supply of straw, cornstalks, or some 

 other good absorbent, and find that the hogs make a large 

 amount of valuable manure here. 



It is impossible to keep a hog-house clean if the hogs are 

 confined to a single room with the floor on one level; and if an 

 outside pen, without a floor, is allowed, the result will be a filthy 

 wallow, reeking with foul odors. With the outside pen floored 

 and supplied with absorbents a hog-house will never become 

 offensive, and it will be an easy matter to keep the house clean. 

 I make the floor to the outside pen of cheap lumber, using inch 

 boards laid on old pieces of scantling, laid flat on the ground.. 

 I can get good beech boards at one dollar and a quarter per 

 hundred, and at this rate all the material for the floor costs but 



about two dollars, and it will last 

 five or six years, when it will need 

 to be renewed. 



The engraving shows a cut of 

 one of my hog-houses, eight feet 

 wide and fourteen long, without 

 HOG-HOUSE. loft. I would advise that the roof 



be made steeper than shown in cut. For a foundation to a 

 house of this size you can use locust or other good posts, 

 large boulders, or brick or stone pillars. The bill of lumber is 

 as follows : 



2 sills 6 inches square and 8 feet long, .... 48 



5 joists 2x10 and 14 feet long, 117 



Flooring common inch, laid double, ..... 200 



4 posts 4x4, for the corners, ...... 32 



2x4 studding for plates, nail ties, etc., .... 48 



8 rafters 2x4 and 10 feet long, 52 



Inch siding, ......... 280 



Sheathing 100 



Total feet of lumber, ....... 877 



