14 Forty Yeaes' Experience of a Practical Hog Man. 



in cold or stormy weather. If the business was large 

 enough to justify, a nice small office should be on every 

 breeding farm, so that all comers would have a place where 

 they could go and "talk hog" to their heart's content with- 

 out being obliged to do this in the dwelling. All buildings 

 should be built of good material, nicely painted and always 

 kept in good condition. The various hog houses, as well 

 as the smaller individual ones should all be nicely made 

 of lumber and well painted and each should be numbered. 

 A plat of the farm proper should also be made by a sur- 

 veyor and each field numbered, so that a regular record 

 can be kept of what each field produced and what its crop 

 rotation should be each year. All convenient utensils 

 should be kept on every swine breeding farm such as mix- 

 ing vat, steam boiler or water heater, good well made gal- 

 vanized pails and dippers, a set of scales in the feed house 

 or some other convenient barn where pigs and feed for 

 them can be weighed, so that one could keep his feed 

 account and know how much feed he was giving 

 each different lot of pigs or hogs. Water should be in 

 every feed house, either pumped directly with windmill or 

 engine or from a compressed air water system. A low 

 down wagon should be had, with the bottom not over 12 or 

 14 inches above the ground large enough to hold three to 

 five barrels, or in lieu of this a galvanized tank made to 

 set on the wagon, with about 4 compartments holding a 

 barrel or more each, with covers strongly hinged with iron 

 hinges to cover openings, so there would be no slopping 

 from the tank when hauled from yard to yard or from field 

 to field. Feed house should be so arranged that this wagon 

 could be driven into it, where feed and water could be mixed 

 and where the steam could be turned into the feed in cold 

 weather if desired. 



If a central hog house is used a system of ventilation 

 should be arranged so that the walls would not be covered 

 with dampness or ice during cold weather. 



A chute for loading pigs into wagon or into crates set 

 on a platform wagon should be made and set on a pair of 

 wheels, so that it would almost balance and could be 

 wheeled from one place to another, a picture of which is 

 on next page. 



