HOG HOUSE ADAPTED TO
ALMOST EVERY CLIMATE
As \nlmnls Are Quite Notably Affected by Extremes of
Cold unci Heat, Character of Their
Shelter Is Essential.
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Elevation of Hog House.
As hogs are quite notably affected
by extremes of cold and heat, the
character of their shelter will have
much to do with their successful
rearing. The above being true, we
will naturally do best with hogs when
we have arranged their home and
feeding grounds, to a certain extent,
at least, such as he would choose for
himself in his wild state, writes J. E.
Bridgman in American Agriculturist.
Proper shelter is no doubt the first
and most serious question, and while
the perfect hog house has not up to
date been invented, great improve
ments have been made during the
past few years.
The accompanying illustrations
show a hog house that is well adapt
ed to almost every climate, except
the extreme south. As shown by the
floor plan, the house is 28xG2 feet
square, and 10 feet to the eaves. The
lower story is 7 feet, leaving ample
room above for bedding and feed. The
chop feed is stored in bins above and
drawn through the spouts A A A.
Mixing barrels or boxes are placed
close to the cooker, shown at C, and
the cooked or steamed feed carried to
the pens in a wheeled feeder. A root
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Floor Plan of Hog House.
cellar is located under the feeding | coats of paint. A feed and litter car
room for storing roots; the stairway j rier may be installed if the house has
Is located under the main stair above, j over eight pens, and will save some
The floor of the feeding room is j labor. The cellar has an outside en
dropped 8 inches and covered with j trance.
FEEDING RACK FOR ALFALFA
A large number of successful farm
ers feed alfalfa hay on the ground,
claiming that hogs are almost cer
tain to pull the hay out of racks and
eat it from the ground more or less
anyway. In cold weather when the
ground is frozen or when the yard
is dry, there would seem to be no seri
ous objection to feeding alfalfa in this
manner. Hogs are less delicate in
their choice of food than other farm
animals and are inclined to eat tho
hay though it has been somewhat
S'llied. If, however, the ground is
soft there is certain to be a consider
able waste, due to tho fact that sotne
ot it is trampled into the mud
At the Nebraska experiment farm
alfalfa hay is fed to hogs from an or
dinary sheep rack, having vertical
slats about three inches apart, just
wide enough to permit the hogs to
reach the hay. These racks stand
alout four feet high and are approxi
mately mree feet wide at the top and
eighteen inches at the bottom. The
accompanying drawing shows a very
satisfactory rack made from wire fenc
ing. This design was furnished by
I'rcf Chase of the department of farm
mechanics of the University of Ne
braska. The rack has been used by
several wel! l;r.own farmers in the
state and all who have vied it seem
well pleased, owing to the simplicity
of its construction and the fact that
there is little waste o" hay. It is
made by using 30-inch wire fence in
verted so that the larger opening. - ; wiW
be at the bottom. It is desirable to
use fencing mac-- of heavy wire and a
stock boards. The entire floor con
sists of 8 inches of cem'ent. The feed
room is also used as a slaughter
house. A galvanized iron vent stack
is placed over the cooker to carry
away the steam, and a good brick flue
is built in the corner, as shown. The
house is sided with drop siding, and
lined on the inside with 6-inch floor
ing. Each pen has a small window
and one leading to the driveway, also
one leading to the yards. A sliding
door, shown at B, closes the driveway
from the feed room. A good tight
floor is laid in the loft, and a sxß
open door left for passing down bed
ding and for a ventilator.
All hog men have their own Ideas
of arranging the feed and water
troughs. However, a good plan is
shown in the pen marked X. A nest
is built in the rear corner, a water
trough placed in front, a feed trough
along the side, and a 2x4 timber is
then placed across the pen from the
rear end of feed trough. This makes
a feeding floor for ear corn, and the
hogs will seldom foul this part of the
floor. The house should set on a
good foundation, and have a good
tight roof, and the exterior-exposed
woodwork should receive at least two
rectangular mesh is preferred to the
diamond shaped mesh. These racks
are usually made about three feet wide
at the top and about 12 inches wide at
the bottom. They can be made
of any desired length up to 16 feet,
depending upon the number of hogs .u
the pen. They are also light in
weight and can be moved from one
part ot the yard to another without
diflieulty.
Parasite of Poultry.
The worst external parasite of poul
try against which the poultryman an J
farmers have to contend is the "com
mon chicken mite" or "red chicken
mite" (Dermanyssus gallinae, Redi.)
There are other species of mites
which attack poultry, but they da
much less damage. This bloodthirsty
pest causes great loss to the poultry
of the country by killing
aiuiC\fowls a i"l chicks and cutting
down <«gg production. It not only at
tacks poultry but horses and even
man as well.
Fertile Egys.
Copulation does not fertilize the
egg laid the same day. A study of the
ovaries teaches that the egg that is
laid to-day was already coated with
shell at least 12 hours before being
laid. That meeting, however, should
fertilize a series of eggs laid after
ward by the hen, although it might be
several days before fertility in eggs
would be found. Some authorities
claim that a male actually fertilizes
ten eggs at the same time
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1910
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What Governor Deneen, of Illinois,
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( iuiii'ln. He has aiiid in
"As an American I nm
il M deliehtc»l to mo tlio re-
H Qlf markuble progress of
| B'lUfVfcPA Western Canada. Our
Thoy are all donn* well.
m unity in tho Middle or
no ' Q representative in Manitoba,
Saskatchewan or Alberta."
125 Million Bushels of
Wheat in 1909
Western Canada field cropn for
• enHilv yield to tlx* farm-
A $170,000,000.00 In CIINII.
if lon - v • Free Ilomestendaof HtOncre*,
nm ' pre-emptions or KitMirres
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Fii ifclV tli« proceeds of one crop.
, A Splemlltl cllimite. coo<l schools,
ili * excellent railway facilities*,low
112 fr«*lK"ht ratcH, wood, water uud
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Cut cmt cathartics and mxrgatxva. They are brutal
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Hook and Advice FHKK. Jlanon,
W* LA I jf' ni I Ki-iiwlrk k Lawrenre, \Vashin«ton.
I Mi I fail* I I).C.Kst.4Dyrs. Bcbt referenceh.
$125,000 net from 1200 acres grapes.
$15,000 from 22 acres peaches.
$3 ? 200 from 20 acres raisins, in the
San Joaquin Valley, California
A cow and an acre of alfalfa will earn
Grapes will yield from siootos3C>o p
while oranges will produce from $250 to $5
an acre. There are ten million arable am
unimproved land for SSO an acre.
Ten acres are enough to comfortably si
a fine living, with money in the bank. Tort
You pay from one-fourth to one
third down, balance vuttilj can be pui<l
for out of I In- crop*.
Almost anything- can be raised in the
San Joaquin country—oranges and
wheat, tins and apples, delicate grapes
and hardy potatoes. Products of the
temperate and semi-tropic zones nour
ish side by side.
I'lcnty of Tvnter for irrigation drawn
from the near-by Sierra snows, it I*
<•!!*>• for one to ntnke n ntnrt. Land be
tween the rows can be used, while or
chard is youns?. for many profitable
crops. The point is to make every
aqua re foot bear nomethlnK-
What Nome fnrmerM linve done:
Frank Thomas, of Fresno, Cal.,
bought twenty acres of land live years
ago. He had but s.'!oo to start on. To
day his place is paid for and he has an
income of over $2,000 a year.
William Shrayer. R. F. D. 7. Fresno,
Cal., bought his tlrst ten acres six
years ago. Now owns sixty acres all
paid for, and refuses J12.000 for his
place.
M. F. Tarpey, of Fresno, owns vine
yard of 1.200 acres, from which he
takes an annual profit of $125,000.
On the Harold estate, twenty-two
acres of peaches yielded a $15,000 crop.
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1 irrigable acres here. You still may buy
ipport a small family. Twenty acres afford
y acres should make you rich.
Carson Reed. Keedley. Cal., from a.
twenty-acre crop of Sultana raisins
netted $3,200.
I know thin valley from end to end.
I have seen crops planted and harvest
ed in every one of its counties. I have
Interviewed farmers, ranchers and mer
chants. I have collated the testimony
of crop experts.
All this valuable information is con
tained in the San Joaquin Valley land
folder Issued by the Santa Fe Railway.
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A. T. & S. F. Ry. System
1150 Railway Exchange Chicago, 111.
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W. N. U.. CLEVELAND, NO. 3-1910.
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