Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-06
MAMMOTH HOG HOUSE
TO DE NOVEL FEATURE
AOF FARM BUILDINGS.
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Iowa Falls, Nov. 6.-When n. a..
Grant gets his hog house completed
the neighborhood north of Iowa Falls
will have two very unusual farm build
ings and at least one uncommon form
OF farm activity in operation. MI.
Grant has put in concrete foundations
for q structure 100 feet long and sixty
feet wide with a feeding floor In front
100 feet by 20. The walls will be eight
feet to the plates and the building will
have gable roof The m:ate-!s! &C the
walls hollow blocks. When these di-
mansions are compared with those OF
other buildings of the kind 1t will be
noted that the Grant hog house VIII
be mammoth structure of It's Kind,
adaptable to extraordinary operations
IN swine raising and feeding. MI.
Grant goes into the northern marke 8
for animals for winter feeding and
south for the stuff he finishes in sum.
mer He has found that the northern
grown hog does best here in the colder
month Of the year and that the south
ern specimen Is preferable for hot
weather fattening. II present plans
go thru as they doubtless will, some
thing like 1900 head OF hogs
Will be brought in, finished
and sent on to Anal market
from this big farm factory" within
the next twelve months. If there are
lean years to come in the hog feeding
game" and the system has to be tenn
porarily discontinued at times the dig
building will be used for farm ware
house purposes OF some kind as it will
be constructed with this plan in mind.
1t will require from $500 to 1000 sacks
OF cement in the concrete work and the
estimated cost of the entire structure is
$500. /
Another farm building in the same
neighborhood Is the immense barn on
the farm Of Wood brothers. 1t too has
hollow block walls, is circular In FORM
14o feet in diameter with a big twenty
foot silo in the center No post or roof
support of any kind obstructs the
space within the barn but system OF
FIVE eighths inch wires extending in
every direction from the upper part
of the silo to the top of the barn roof
below holds the latter in place. An
immense iron ring in the silo forms
anchorage for the wires. An expert
authority from the state AGRICULTURAL
college is said to have examined the
building and 10 have pronounced the
structure perfectly safe and capable OF
indefinite endurance. TWO hundred
fifty head of cattle have been comfort
ably housed in this barn at one time
and fifty more could be taken care OF
If necessary.
Much building of greater or less
OF this kind is being done
all over this part of the country. Frank
Hamilton has put in foundation for
hog house 64x2S feet. ten feet high, to
be built Of blocks and equipped with
bedding NOV. granary, water room. |
stove and full windows. This by no
means small building viii cost about
81, 900. A fine double crib and granary
has just been finished on the Peter
Hanson farm in this same comInun-
ity.
Earl Eick is trying out a new idea
in corn sorting apparatus on the Isaac
Eick farm near Owasa. There is no
escape from the necessity Of sorting in
this section and the sort u-husk
sytem is not at all satisfactory to the
farmer nor to his help. Mr.. Eick has
built plank platform at comfortable
shoveling height about four feet wide
and running the entire length OF his
crib driveway. the. back side OF the
platform being up against the crib. 4
single board was nailed on the outside
and the inside boarded higher so that
the platform holds two or three loads
OF corn. The younger men will husk
the corn and get 1t on the platform and
the elder Eick has nothing to do except
sort 1t by hand while the next loads
are being husked. Something on the
plan of putting the boy on the down
row" where the work was easy
Next year there will be no soft corn
in this locality, not an ear OF 1t, for
everybody is fully convinced that forty
bushels, some say thirty, OF small. early
sound corn is better than eighty OF |