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ment. The most economical and convenient hog-house has 

 a row of pens along each side of a central alley which, in 

 larger buildings, should be wide enough to drive through. 

 This allows the hauling in of straw for bedding, and corn 

 or slops for feeding, thereby saving much labor. It also 

 provides for the easy removing of manure. 



The separate pens should be from five to eight feet wide, 

 and from eight to twelve feet long, depending on the use to 



An excellent type of hog-house with outdoor pens. 



be made of them. Pens for brood sows need not be larger 

 than eight by ten feet. If feeding is to be done in the 

 pens they should be larger, or, better still, the partitions 

 should be removable. The floor may be of cement, though 

 for farrowing sows a temporary board floor should be laid 

 over the cement, because of the coldness of a cement floor. 

 Woven wire stretched over the top of the ground to pre- 

 vent rooting is sometimes used as a floor. Such a floor, 

 however, is likelv to be either dustv or wet. Board floors are 



