Show 1 aa J HOG WALLOW WILL GIVE protection corkers porkers need shade a and cool caterin water in hot season while there Is not nothing bilig esthetic about ab outa a hog wallow there Is satisfaction for the hogs and protection tor for their owner in hot bot weather the hog more than most other animals Is liable to overheating likely to be attended ten ded by very high mortality plenty of shade and cool water together with freedom from any disturbance are preventatives against this source of losses in the hog og lot on the john brown farm near M me ohio there Is a hog bog wallow ot of concrete which pretty well suits the ideas of J T W het animal husbandry specialist at ohio state university as to what a hog wallow should be about 25 feet square the sides of the wallow slope very 9 gradually toward a drain in the center in one on corner comer there Is an automatic drinking fount fountain aln the overflow from which anns directly into the pool over the wallow there Is a roof supported on posts all four sides are open the capacity of the wallow Is highly elastic clastic since every hog which grunts brunts lits his way into the water displaces Is his own volume in water and raises the level of the pool tile more hogs in the pool pooi the more water the surface of the water in the pool carries a floating film of crude 01 dl which keeps down insect pests on the hogs and also checks mange among them |