. Hogology. cement has set a little. Thenremove the tile and you have a niceround bottom in the trough. I findsuch a trough very easy to clean. Automatic Hog Waterer In making this hog waterer, con-nect a supply tank on the farm whichhas fresh water in it always and hasfall enough to get the water to thehog, with a common barrel in theground by means of an inch pipe runthree feet underground. Use a floatin the barrel to regulate the flow ofwater into this receptacle. Then con-nect the barrel with a trough on thelevel with the water edge, using oneabout one foot wide, ten inches deepand about t
. Hogology. cement has set a little. Thenremove the tile and you have a niceround bottom in the trough. I findsuch a trough very easy to clean. Automatic Hog Waterer In making this hog waterer, con-nect a supply tank on the farm whichhas fresh water in it always and hasfall enough to get the water to thehog, with a common barrel in theground by means of an inch pipe runthree feet underground. Use a floatin the barrel to regulate the flow ofwater into this receptacle. Then con-nect the barrel with a trough on thelevel with the water edge, using oneabout one foot wide, ten inches deepand about three feet long, so several hogs can drink at the same desired, one end of the troughcan be put through a fence and allowtwo bunches of hogs to drink fromthe same place at one time. This is the best method of water-ing hogs that I know of. It saves itscost many times, and is especiallyconvenient when you are away fromhome, for no matter how late you re-turn, the pigs always have water be-fore Eighty-four Hog Housesand Pens -rir—Rn—m^iii^Hir—HH—NN—IK—NN—an—^M^an-^ii—Hii^ii ■*i»—iih—mt^yi-^i^ i PART II Sun Brooder for Early Pigs I have found the brooder 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 w
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