CHAPTEE TWO. 



A VERY COMPLETE SWINE HOUSE. 



Where one is raising hogs on a large scale and does not 

 have to skimp for money to build proper buildings, the 

 building known as the Myers plan is probably the most 

 convenient Swine house, with pasture and house attached, 

 that could be built. The Swine House proper is built in 

 a circle 87 feet in diameter with twenty pens around the 

 outer circle, each pen being 13 ft. front by 12 ft. in 

 depth and each opening to a one-half acre pasture, as 

 shown in ground plan of building and pastures, with the 

 sleeping house at the rear end of each lot, with additional 

 larger pastures opening out from each of these half acre 

 ones. You will notice also by the ground plan that each 

 half acre lot has artificial shade along the fence between 

 each two lots, thus accommodating the pigS' in each yard. 



The House proper which stands in the center of the 

 circle is 30' in diameter with feed bins around the circle. 

 This part should be made with all concrete floor. You 

 will notice an alley out each side of this feed house. In- 

 side is located a hydrant or pump with a drain which 

 runs to a sewer. A steel overhead track with carrier 

 should be used in this building to carry the feed out to 

 the cement walk around the front of the feeding pens, thus 

 making an extremely convenient way of feeding, requir- 

 ing no heavy lifting to feed in a trough as shown in the 

 side view. These troughs should be made of cast iron or- 

 boiler iron. I would suggest in making these houses that 

 a good article of prepared roofing other than galvanized 

 iron be used. Galvanized iron draws too much heat and 

 another thing it would have to be painted every year or 

 would soon rust out. A wagon scale should be located 

 in the circle outside of the feed house, this circle 



