106 SWINE GEORGE E. DAT. 



It will be noticed that the sleeping quarters have cement 

 floors. When bedding is plentiful this may give no trouble, 

 but it viTould be safer to place a portable wooden platform 

 on the cement. 



The roof is supported by four lines of posts to which the 

 partitions are fastened. Each row carries a line of plates 

 which support the rafters. 



There are six windows, each five feet long and two and a 

 half feet high, in the south wall, and the same number in 

 the roof, placed as previously described. The north wall 

 has only two windows. 



The dimensions given for the small pens include partitions. 



The pens as described are not suitable for farrowing pens. 

 As stated in another place, it is better to have the sows in a 

 building away from other pigs, especially during cold 

 weather, when the building must be kept pretty well closed 

 up. The air of a piggery where a large number of pigs are 

 kept does not agree well with little pigs. If a part of the 

 large piggery is to be used for farrowing pens, it should be 

 closely partitioned off from the rest of the building. The 

 same style of pen could be made suitable for sows with little 

 pigs by making the sleeping apartments two feet wider, 

 thus giving beds eight feet square. 



The absence of a loft for storing straw will be a strong 

 objection in the eyes of many. The ventilation of the 

 building, however, and the health of the animals are of 

 vastly greater importance than the inconvenience occasioned 

 hy the absence of a loft. It is generally possible to locate 

 the building so as to make it comparatively easy to obtain 

 straw for bedding. If it is not possible to have the building 

 situated with one end adjoining a straw shed, a loft for 

 straw could be constructed over that part of the building 

 used for farrowing pens and feed room. 



It is, of course, impossible to give plans which would 

 likely meet all requirements, and possibly the plan submitted 

 ■could not be adopted in its entirety by many breeders. At 



