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Show BUILDING A $5 HOG HOUSE Low Cost and Ease With Which They Can Be Moved Should Recommend Recom-mend Them to Breeders. The hog house shown In the accompanying ac-companying illustration Is ten feet long by live feet wide, the shed seven feet, tind the open pen In front three feet. The pen Is three feet high, the shed four feet at front, sloping to three at the back, our corner posts, 2 by 4, three feet long, and two upright up-right at front of roof, 2 by 4. four feet long; six boards one fool, wide and 16 feet long make the sides and ends; boards one foot wide and seven tret long, cut from corner to corner, Villi give necessary slope to the roof. The roof may be of board, iron, or any roofing. If Iron Is used. It should be laid over building paper to prevent sweating, writes Stanley WclU In the American Agriculturist. If made of pine these houses cost about $." each, but when made of native na-tive lumber they cost less. When a Hd Is put over the opening In front the The Hog House In Position. houses are weatherproof and safe for farrowing sows at any season. In extremely ex-tremely cold spells I have wanned them with a small oil stove and made them a comfortable as a high-priced, artificially heated house could be made. five ten-foot hoards make a floor, which can be laid In seasons when one is necessary, and w hen not In use can be easily taken up and stored away for another year. Any mau can easily move one of these houses with a stonebont, and when they are to be moved a distance, two can be put on a hay frame. The low cost and tho ease with w hich they are moved should recommend a house of this kind to the renter, who Is liable to find poor facilities for hog raising on many farms. |