The key to letters shown on frame is as follows: (a) Pieces 8 feet long: 

 - inches long;^(c) 6 feet long; (d) 2 feet 6 inches long; (e) 2 feet 

 3 inches long; (/) 7 feet long; (g) 3 feet 9 inches long; (ft) 5 feet 4 inches long; 

 (it 11 inches long. 



The following amount of lumber is necessary to construct the house described : 

 Six pieces 2x4 inches, 1C feet long; five pieces 2x4 inches. 12 feet long; two 

 pieces 2x4 inches, 14 feet long, for frame; three pieces 2 x 12 inches. 10 feet long, 

 rough, for floor; eleven pieces 1 x 12 inches, 12 feet long, dressed one side, for sides 

 and ends; five pieces 1 x 12 inches, 1C feet long, dressed one side, for roof; and 

 four pieces O.G. battens 16 feet long, eleven pieces O.G. battens 12 feet long, for 

 roof and sides. 



A larger house of the shed-roof type may be built if desired. The plan is given 

 for a house 8 x 12 feet. This house will accommodate eight to ten mature hogs, 

 cir twenty growing pigs. By partitioning off the house in the middle, the house 

 can be used for two different lots of hogs, or two sows at farrowing-times. In this 

 case it should be provided with two doors, windows, and ventilators in the front. 



The illustration shows the framework of the S x 12 house. The runners are 

 shown underneath the joists, the same as is shown in the smaller house, and the 

 method of construction is practically the same. The two 2 x 2's shown at the 

 centre in front and also the place in the rear opposite them is arranged to provide 

 for putting in a plank partition. The planks for the partition may be sawed 

 diagonally at one end in order to release them easily on being removed. 



The key to the letters which are shown on the frame is as follow < : i n i Pieces 

 12 feet long: (&) pieces 11 feet 10 inches long: (c) 11 feet 8 inches long; (d) 9 feet 

 long; (e) 7 feet 10 inches long; (/) 7 feet 6 inches long; (g) 7 feet 8 inches long; 

 (7i) 6 feet 6 inches long;, (i) 3 feet 9* inches long; (;) 2 feet 7 inches long; 

 ( /.- 1 2 feet 4 inches long. 



The amount of lumber necessary to construct the above-described house is as 

 follows: Eight pieces 2x4 inches. 12 feet long; three pieces 2x6 inches. 12 feet 

 long; two pieces 2x4 inches, 18 feet long; six pieces 2x4 inches, 16 feet long: 

 three pieces 2x4 inches. 14 feet long, for frame: eight pieces 2 x 12 inches, 12 feet 

 long, rough, for floor: eight pieces 1 x 12 inches. 14 feet long; six pieces 1 x 12 inches. 

 12 feet long: two pieces 1 x 12 inches. 10 feet long; one piece 1 x 12 inches, 16 feet 

 long, for sides and ends; one piece 1 x G inches. 12 feet long, for braces and cross- 

 pieces for doors: thirty-six pieces O.G. battens 10 feet long, for sides; and thirteen 

 pieces 1 x 12 inches, 10 feet long, for roof. For a shingle roof it will require 

 130 feet of rough lumber 14 feet long and six bunches of shingles 4^ inches to 

 the weather. A shingle roof is preferable. 



In winter the portable houses may be brought up near the farm buildings, and 

 located on high, dry ground. A feeding-floor with troughs should be provided in 

 a handy place near by. The houses should be well bedded at least once a week : 

 oftener in wet and muddy weather. They are made warmer and draughts prevented 

 by banking round the outside with earth or strawy manure. With good care, hogs 

 will winter well in these houses. 



Straic House. In Manitoba hogs have wintered well in straw houses made by 

 piling straw thickly over a pole structure, with a low passage to the middle. In 

 any dry. cold climate this house will answer well, provided the straw is thick 

 enough to keep out draughts and absorb the moisture from the animals' breath. 



Large Permanent Hog-1tou*e.\ large permanent house is more expensive than 

 the portable-house system, but has advantages connected with it. especially in 

 winter. The hog is sensitive to cold, and in severe weather needs cozy quarters 

 to do well. Hogs winter well in portable houses, but cost more to feed, because 

 such quarters are often colder than a permanent hog-house. 



In erecting a permanent house five things should be especially considered 

 light, ventilation, warmth, ease of cleaning, and dryuess. The house should be on 

 a north and south line, so that the sides facing east and west will get equal 

 amounts of sunlight. In the house shown in the figure the feeding may be done 

 either in the inside sleeping-pens or outside in the yards, whichever is preferred. 



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