Best·Paying Building
6'30.5 /</6 , v.ce� Jl\NUMlY G, I� FA � .CONT1NU1NG MAIL & BREEZE This feed i double-deck and farrowing house These Nebraska-type, 2-sow houses on .. with concrete lot gives Charles Howe, pasture are preferred by Harve Kinzie, Douglas county, the kind of layout bed Brown county. Feed wagon, in back- suited to his farm conditions. ground, cuts down labor. "Hog House� Considering Cost� Is ',' BEST·PAYING BUILDING planning hog housing facilities, This straw-loft central house with concrete feeding how much consideration be should floor has done well for Roy Nelson, Labette county. His the and comfort of WHENgiven well-being layout offers a combination of pig-raising possibilities. the sow and pigs, .and how much to conven ience and comfort for' the farmer who must care for them? Howard Good, Jefferson county, uses A· At first glance it might appear that the sow type and shed-type individual houses in and pigs would be the only consideration. But colonies. His son, Chester, shows arrange in these of labor it be days, shortages may ment for extra ventilation. Mr. Good likes essential that farmers conserve their labor the slled-type better than the A-house. ,1 and time and protect their health against more .physical exertion than.is absolute neces Center of the 'Nelson house is a sary. loafing shed equipped with feed room and a self No other farm building, says a recent U, s. feeder. In the foreground is a 6·foot reser Department of Agriculture bulletin, brings voir connected with the well for water such large returns on investment as does the storage in a central location.
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