Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . n all A Cheap Hog House—A122 The cheapest kind of a hog house isshown in plan (A132.) It is only sevenfeet six inches wide, but it may be anylength. This house is thirty-one feet sixinches long because this length is coveredby two sixteen foot joists. Even on wellregulated hog farms where there is a good solid hog house this shed afifair will befound useful to hold the overflow. It of-ten happens that shoats in fall are keptin a muddy feed lot o
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . n all A Cheap Hog House—A122 The cheapest kind of a hog house isshown in plan (A132.) It is only sevenfeet six inches wide, but it may be anylength. This house is thirty-one feet sixinches long because this length is coveredby two sixteen foot joists. Even on wellregulated hog farms where there is a good solid hog house this shed afifair will befound useful to hold the overflow. It of-ten happens that shoats in fall are keptin a muddy feed lot or sold too soon forlack of just such shelter as this to holdthem while being finished. Beginners inthe hog business could not do better than 72 RADFORDS PRACTICAL to build a little cheap hog house like thisto start with. The seven and one-half foot width per-mits of roofing the shed with sixteen footboards cut in two in the middle. Each six- of the, building and the floor boards runcrosswise and slant back for easy space is left between the floor boardsand the boarding at the back so a scrapermay be used. In cold weather this space. ? i ^^ f^ 1 ?\ 1 i. ^ ==i=E=: 1 3/& /==^/J/V /9A//P J^CT/OA/ OF //OG A/OL3£ \ ^ce-o^ ^os rj ^ teen foot section will make two pens near-ly eight feet square which will hold fromfive to seven or eight pigs according tosize. The posts are just set into the groundand the floor raised about a foot to keep itdry. Four two by six joists run lengthwise is closed by a hinged board which dropsdown on the inside. This precaution isnecessary because a cold draft on the flooris a very bad thing for hogs. This littlehog house dont run into very much moneybut it is a very useful, practical aff^air. A Small Carriage House—A131 A small carriage house with stable roomfor two horses or a horse and a cow is avery convenient thing when a person hasa good sized lot in the city or village. \
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