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Show BUILDING COLONY HOG-HOUSE Excellent Manner of Using Old Scrap Lumber Is to Put It Into Pens for the Swine. Uiy J. w. (inn r-iN One of the best ways to use scrap lumber Is to build hog houses out of j It. If there Is no old lumber lying j around In the way. It will pay to buy new, even at the present high prices, and build the hAg houses. If it pays to take care of the little pigs when the butcher's stuff Is bring Ing four and five cents a pound. It is doubly profitable when they are eight and ten cents. We have ten Jersey brood sow s and The Colony Hog-House. ten colony houses, built and fenced off, ns shown In the drawing. These houses were built out of lumber lum-ber that came out of an old frame building, once used as a saw mill. We bought the old mill, the frame of which was 33 feet wide, 100 feet long, and two stories high; all the framing timbers were as good as when put In the building. The scrap-lumber scrap-lumber we worked into the hog houses hous-es and the frame and the best lumber lum-ber will be used In the building an up-to-dato feed barn. |