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ing the fender, posts, gates and fences, cost $13.60 per 

 pen. This price of course will vary with conditions. 

 Outside of this, a hog house of this character can be built 

 at a total cost that is similar to the cost of other build- 

 ings of the same size and construction. In order to save 

 expense in a building of this kind it may be made a little 

 narrower, a little lower, and the pens may be a little 

 smaller. The floors may be left out, and the part of the 

 building containing the office, feed bins, scale, etc., may 

 also be left off, all of which would help to reduce the cost 

 to a minimum. 



Location as to Pasture. — In order to be useful to the 

 greatest degree a hog house should be so situated that it 

 will furnish the hogs with an abundance of exercise. This 

 may be done during the summer season by having the 

 house placed to give the pigs access to pasture. The 

 pasture will not only supply exercise, but will also fur- 

 nish a great deal of the feed, together with considerable 

 mineral matter. During the winter season when pastures 

 are not available, a hog house of this kind can still be 

 located to supply the pigs with exercise. It might be 

 placed at a suitable distance from the regular barn yard 

 where the horses and cattle are kept. During the day the 

 pigs may be turned into the barn yard to pick over the 

 manure and thus get the required amount of exercise. 

 The arrangement of the house and pastures as in use at 

 the Illinois Experiment Station is shown in Cut 31. 



HOG HOUSE AND PASTURES. 



In the cut (31) B is the hog house. A' pens on the 

 outside, L a small pasture and E and F are the lanes 

 leading to the pastures. In this particular instance there 

 is very little land available for pasture, while a great 



