. Agriculture and the farming business . them on many farms. Yet hogs are farmore sensitive to cold than horses or cattle, which havethick fur coats to protect them, while the hog has almostnone. Hogs lie down more than most animals, and need abetter bed. They live close to the ground, and easily breathein dust and impurities. They need sunshine more than dohorses and cattle, yet little is provided for them. Hogs take cold very easily. Little pigs, especially, needto be kept warm, dry and away from drafts, if they are notto have their growth checked, or even lose their lives by 588 AGRICULTURE
. Agriculture and the farming business . them on many farms. Yet hogs are farmore sensitive to cold than horses or cattle, which havethick fur coats to protect them, while the hog has almostnone. Hogs lie down more than most animals, and need abetter bed. They live close to the ground, and easily breathein dust and impurities. They need sunshine more than dohorses and cattle, yet little is provided for them. Hogs take cold very easily. Little pigs, especially, needto be kept warm, dry and away from drafts, if they are notto have their growth checked, or even lose their lives by 588 AGRICULTURE AND catching cold. Neglect of these simple rules indicates shift-less farming, and causes great loss. Hog-houses.—Every farm that makes a business ofraising pigs will find a well-built hog-house a paying invest-ment. The most economical and convenient hog-house hasa row of pens along each side of a central alley which, inlarger buildings, should be wide enough to drive allows the hauling in of straw for bedding, and corn. Hog-house for southern states. or slops for feeding, thereby saving much labor. It alsoprovides for the easy removing of manure. The separate pens should be from five to eight feet wide,and from eight to twelve feet long, depending on the use tobe made of them. Pens for brood sows need not be largerthan eight by ten feet. If feeding is to be done in thepens they should be larger, or, better still, the partitionsshould be removable. The floor may be of cement, thoughfor farrowing sows a temporary board floor should be laidover the cement, because of the coldness of a cement floor. THE FARMING BUSINESS 589 Woven wire stretched over the top of the ground to pre-vent rooting is sometimes used as a floor. Such a floor,however, is hkely to be either dusty or wet. Board floors areexpensive and drafty if built above ground. They also har-bor rats, which not infrequently kill young pigs. A dou-ble trough may supply each pair of pens. Young pigsshould ha
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