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 A Modern Sanitary Hog House

��IN Iowa, where the hog is given the first place on many a tarm, hundreds of new hog houses have been built. They are very practical, easy to build, and make the most of the materials. Houses built after this plan harness the sunlight most effectively. The windows are in the roof, that is on the south slope of the roof, which is at half pitch. Any farmer who has only ordinary skill can put together such a structure during the nothing-to-do period on the farm or at the end of the rush season.

The foundations for the walls are made of concrete and go down below the frost line, so that the tile-walls will not crack. The pen-floors are of hollow clay, tile laid, on a sand cush- ion. This makes a warm and dry bed for the old mother sow and her litter. The pen partitions and the walls of the house are made of clay tile 8'' thick, and a stanchion is bolted to the wall every 6'. The rafters are 2'x6 and are 16' long and spaced 2' apart.

The house is solidly put together, if the plan here shown is followed out by the builder. It will need but little repairing. The materials that will be needed for the farmer who will want to build such a house have been listed below. For a sixteen pen house, that is with eight pens on both sides of the center feed-alley, and with pens 6'x8' in size, the materials will cost at the rate of about $20 per pen in many sections. For a house that has outside ground dimensions 21' x SCK the follow- ing materials will be needed:

25 barrels cement for foundation and feed-alley floor.

2,500 hollow, clay blocks for floor and

walls, 5"x8"xl2". 10 pes. 2'x8'— lO' for plates. 52 pes. 2x6 — 16' rafters for roof.

26 pes. I'x6' — 12' cross ties for rafters.

1,600' roof-sheathing. 15,000 cedar shingles for roof. 16 skylight sashes for roof. 16 pen doors. 2'x3'.

2 doors, 3'x7'.

1 metal cupola, 18".

��Stake out the building site, 21'x50', and inside the lines dig the founda- tion trenches. These are 10" wide and 2^/^' deep. If the ground is solid, wood forms will not be needed, but always use care and do not jar loose any of the trench walls when pouring concrete into them. Make the iconcrete with one sack of cement, three cubic feet of sand and five of gravel. •Mix

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the sand and cement thoroughly before adding the gravel and the water. Slush the mixture into the trench at once and be sure that the top is leveled off properly.

The tile walls (8" thick) of the house are laid directly upon the concrete foundation, as the diagram illustrates. The common size blocks are 5" x 8" x 12" in size. Lay them flatwise in the wall. Use a lime and cement mortar, but only a small amount of lime will be allowed, not to exceed one tenth part by volume. The lime makes the mortar plastic, so that the mortar will stick to the ends of the blocks when they are being laid up in the walls of the hog house. The tile walls of the

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