The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-10-18
PROPER HOUSING
DURING WINTER
Increase Pork Production by
Making Pigs Comfortable in
Cold Weather.
HOG Raising IS PROFITABLE
Little Pig to Thrive Must Be Kept
Dry, Warm, Away From Drafts
and Provided With Fresh Air
Sunshine Also Needed.

The corn belt hogs furnish one Of
Ing the corn crop. With the exception
Of chickens, they are the most numer
Gus of all farm animals, and are grown
/ for market on more farms than any
other stock. Hog raising has probably
made more clear money for the corn
/ belt farmers than any other enterprise.
/ In view of this one might expect to
/ find hogs the best housed of any ami
mails on the farm, but the opposite is
the case. 1t is still hard for many
farmers to get rid of the notion that
anything is good enough for Il hog.
Yet there is no animal on the farm
which requires better protection from
cold than the hog; none for which a
good bed is more necessary, and none
so much in need of sunshine as the
little pig. The horse and the COW have
good coats Of hair-even calf or a
colt when left in the cold is provided
with good fur coat the hens feath-
ers are the best of protection against
cold but the hog has almost nothing
between his skin and the weather.
One of the first requisites for sue.
cess with hogs is a shelter where
young pigs can be Kept warm and well
supplied with sunshine and fresh air.
A little pig takes cold very easily and
RECEIVERS slowly if at all. To prevent
taking cold he must be kept dry, warm,
away from drafts, and provided with
fresh air.
Most good hog raiserS who have
warm buildings try to have their sOws
commence farrowing about March l,
but without good hOuses this is i'm
practicable. Breeders find it necessary
to have their pigs come about this time
in order to have them large enough
for the fall demand, and producers Of
market hogs find The practice profit
able. Early pigs have several marked
Without good house two
litters year cannot be raised to adj
vantage, because the spring pigs must
be put off until so late that the fall
litters do not get well started before
cold weather, but with Il good house
two litters can well be raised. Most J
farmers do not feel that they can keep |
an old sow for one litter, but with two |
Iitters it becomes a different PROPOSE |
lion. 1t is universally conceded that |
DID sows raise better pigs than young
1nes, and the keeping of old sows en-
ibles one to select and keep only the
pest producers.
Types of Large Houses.
The variety Of hog houses is almost
Is great as the variety of individuals
lsing them. 1t is rare, indeed, to find
wen a semblance of uniformity pre-
'ailing in q community. There are,
lOwever, only two or three general
ypes which commend themselves to
he careful hog man. OF the two styles
f large houses, the larger has two
Ows of pens, an alley through the
eddie, and jog in the roof for win
Gws to light The north pens, while {
he smaller has but one row of pens,
nth an alley and row of windows on =
he south side. The double house is =.
luch cheaper per pen, and for that :
easOn is to be preferred. Less work .
J also required to care for the hogs .
han where a single row of pens is .
sed. .
Probably the cheapest house possible i.
) low building with single row of !
ems and no alley, but such house is
Iuch less convenient, especially in 1
.ormy weather.
In the majority Of large hog houses
lie upper windows are not so placed :;
hat sunshine will strike the floor &