A Modern Sanitary Hog House 



IN Iowa, where the hog is given the 

 first place on many a tarm, hundreds 

 of new hog houses have been built. 

 They are very practical, easy to build, 

 and make the most of the materials. 

 Houses built after this plan harness the 

 sunlight most effectively. The windows 

 are in the roof, that is on the south slope 

 of the roof, which is at half pitch. Any 

 farmer who has only ordinary skill can 

 put together such a structure during the 

 nothing-to-do period on the farm or at 

 the end of the rush season. 



The foundations for the walls are 

 made of concrete and go down below 

 the frost line, so that the tile-walls 

 will not crack. The pen-floors are of 

 hollow clay, tile laid, on a sand cush- 

 ion. This makes a warm and dry bed 

 for the old mother sow and her litter. 

 The pen partitions and the walls of the 

 house are made of clay tile 8'' thick, 

 and a stanchion is bolted to the wall 

 every 6'. The rafters are 2'''x6'' and 

 are 16' long and spaced 2' apart. 



The house is solidly put together, 

 if the plan here shown is followed out 

 by the builder. It will need but little 

 repairing. The materials that will be 

 needed for the farmer who will want 

 to build such a house have been listed 

 below. For a sixteen pen house, that 

 is with eight pens on both sides of 

 the center feed-alley, and with pens 

 6'x8' in size, the materials will cost at 

 the rate of about $20 per pen in many 

 sections. For a house that has outside 

 ground dimensions 21' x SCK the follow- 

 ing materials will be needed: 



25 barrels cement for foundation and 

 feed-alley floor. 



2,500 hollow, clay blocks for floor and 



walls, 5"x8"xl2". 

 10 pes. 2'x8'— lO' for plates. 

 52 pes. 2''x6'' — 16' rafters for roof. 



26 pes. I'x6' — 12' cross ties for 

 rafters. 



1,600' roof-sheathing. 

 15,000 cedar shingles for roof. 

 16 skylight sashes for roof. 

 16 pen doors. 2'x3'. 



2 doors, 3'x7'. 



1 metal cupola, 18". 



Stake out the building site, 21'x50', 

 and inside the lines dig the founda- 

 tion trenches. These are 10" wide 

 and 2^/^' deep. If the ground is solid, 

 wood forms will not be needed, but 

 always use care and do not jar loose 

 any of the trench walls when pouring 

 concrete into them. Make the iconcrete 

 with one sack of cement, three cubic 

 feet of sand and five of gravel. •Mix 



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PLAN 



Floor and section plan of sanitary 



hog house 



the sand and cement thoroughly before 

 adding the gravel and the water. Slush 

 the mixture into the trench at once 

 and be sure that the top is leveled off 

 properly. 



The tile walls (8" thick) of the house 

 are laid directly upon the concrete 

 foundation, as the diagram illustrates. 

 The common size blocks are 5" x 8" x 

 12" in size. Lay them flatwise in the 

 wall. Use a lime and cement mortar, 

 but only a small amount of lime will 

 be allowed, not to exceed one tenth 

 part by volume. The lime makes the 

 mortar plastic, so that the mortar will 

 stick to the ends of the blocks when 

 they are being laid up in the walls of 

 the hog house. The tile walls of the 



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