CHAPTER VIII. 



THE PIGGERY Continued. 



Don't give the hogs the sunny side of a wire fence for shelter, 

 nor yet put them in a little four by six pen. A well planned hog 

 house will pay. John Tucker. 



When building a more pretentious and permanent 

 pig pen, the following general suggestions will be help- 

 ful. Select a dry spot where there will be natural drain- 

 age, away from the house and other farm buildings, 

 and place the building so that it will open to the south 

 or southeast, and far enough away from the house to 

 avoid any bad odors reaching there. No stock enjoy 

 a sheltered place where they can bask in the sun more 

 than swine. Both roof and floor should be tight, warm 

 and dry. To be shut up in a little, damp, nasty pen 

 on a plank floor or on stones or in the mud with a wet 

 or filthy bed is not conducive to health. While every- 

 thing is warm and tight, do not overlook plenty of well 

 arranged ventilation. 



My old pen was floored with oak planks, but in my 

 ' new pen I have tried a cement floor for the feeding pen 

 and entries ; of course, the runways back of each pen 

 are not cemented. It is not well for the hogs to sleep 

 on a cemented floor even with a good bedding of straw, 

 as they will work down to the cold cement, which robs 

 them of animal heat. It takes too much corn to warm 

 up the pigs and the cement too. I have a sleeping floor 



