. Hogology. ooder shown bythe drawing here to be very val-uable to me, and I recommend it toevery breeder of hogs whether he hasa heated building or not, for there isnothing equal to the suns rays forgrowing pigs. A frame was built just like a hotbed, the lower side being one foothigh and the upper two feet frame was built tight so that nocold air could get thru the cracks,and storm windows were placed ontop, hinged to the upper side so theycould be raised a little if the air gottoo foul. This brooder was fastened to thehog house on a level with the creep was cut, just large e
. Hogology. ooder shown bythe drawing here to be very val-uable to me, and I recommend it toevery breeder of hogs whether he hasa heated building or not, for there isnothing equal to the suns rays forgrowing pigs. A frame was built just like a hotbed, the lower side being one foothigh and the upper two feet frame was built tight so that nocold air could get thru the cracks,and storm windows were placed ontop, hinged to the upper side so theycould be raised a little if the air gottoo foul. This brooder was fastened to thehog house on a level with the creep was cut, just large enoughfor the litle pigs to pass thru, inthe wall of the hog house and plentyof clean dry straw placed in thebrooder. It was surely a pleasure to watchthe little fellows stretch out in theirwarm nest. When the old sows wouldcall them, they would all run to theirmeals and then back to their sun par-lors. I believe it is worth any mansmoney to build something of this sortif he is farrowing pigs in early A sun brooder for early pigs used\>Y R. W. Hodgson, Rushmore, Minn. I regret that the pigs shown in thepicture were white; it was taken be-fore I came into the Duroc ranks. Eighty-seven HOGOLOGY A House That Keeps Em Warm in Winter
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