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Show folFORT OF i!0G F.fQSTDESiOAOLE Well-Made Sanitary Wallow Is Like Coney Island Bathing Beach for Porkers. CONCRETE TYFE IS POPULAR Grower Faces Two Temperature Extremes Ex-tremes in Many of Pork-Producing States Many Farmers Neglect Proper Shelter. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) It is ns natural for the hog to want to wallow as it is for the small boy to scurry to the old swimming hole with the first breath of spring. Hot weather is hard on fat animals, the portly porker included. That is why a well-made, well-made, sanitary hog wallow is like a Coney Island bathing beach for the hogs. A popular and serviceable type of wallow advocated by the United States department of agriculture should be made of concrete about 12 inches in depth and large enough to accommodate the herd of hogs. The wallow should be supplied with a satisfactory sat-isfactory intake and outlet so that it can he filled about two-thirds full of water and drained every few days, or as often as is necessary to keep the pool fresh and cleanly. At the present time a test is being made at the experimental ex-perimental farm of the department of agriculture at Beltsville, Mil., to determine deter-mine the value of the cement hog wallow wal-low as a comfort for hogs. The results of this investigation will be published upon completion early in the fall. Temperature Extremes. The hog grower in many of the leading lead-ing pork-producing states faces two temperature extremes during the year. During the winter, unless he provides comfortable houses and warm quarters, his hogs are likely to suffer from the cold, while in the summer season he must handle the animals under conditions condi-tions of extreme heat. Any animal as fat as the average hog which is to be marketed in the late summer or early fall suffers greatly during hot weather, and unfortunately many hog farmers neglect to provide shelter and protection protec-tion for their hogs from the extreme Some of Uncle Sam's Porkers at Beltsville, Md. heat. During hot weather hogs need an abundance of shade natural shade1, such as is furnished by trees and bushes being the best. Temporary Shelter. Where natural shade and shelter are not available, the hog owner should put up a temporary shelter by building a framework about 4 feet high and thoroughly covering the top with brnsh, straw, grass, or hay. This inexpensive inex-pensive sunshade should be of sufti-clont sufti-clont size to protect a herd of hogs in comfort as they lie under it. As a rule, the ordinary hog house should not be used for shade purposes during the summer. Each year hog mortality is comparatively heavy due to "porker sunstroke" Induced by maintaining the hogs in the open without sufficient protection pro-tection from the ruddy glow of Old Sol's furnace. |