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T T VUUVWUUJ 9 V ; ? ?-J ? ? ? - Sturdy doghouse i; means good hogs i | inj L . , txpenencea diouKmen miuw to Winter Swine Must Be j J? Well Protected. : do 1 tr< i HOW IS BEST TIME TO BUILD | ^ po by ipitn Described Here Has Been Tested ! j Under Rigid Conditions and Has ! ^ ' Proved to Be One'of Best ! ve Designs Known. j 0f th< f Mr, "William A. Radford win answer er, Questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the < <> subject of building work on the farm, for fw the readers of this paper. On account of .. his wide experience as Editor, Author and U1< Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the T1 highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Rad- P0 ford. No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, of EL, and only inclose two-cent stamp for gQ] reply. ; Tt I By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. , ba Nearly every winter there are a m< large number of farmers and stock- B0( men who become convinced that the 001 profitable raising of swine requires a *0< well designed and carefully construct- be ed winter hog house. The spring following a hard winter finds these men planning for the construction of such 8e] a building, which they erect during ?P tie warm weather In readiness for the 001 next winter. , ?P , Fall pigs must be carried through 801 the winter to get the money value out mt of them. A few pigs may be left to root around the straw stacks, but rais- ab ing good hogs to make money requires careful planning to breed two litters th( a year, at the right time to fit in with 9lc the seasons. | ne I The breeding plan on most well-con- e(* ducted stock farms divides the farrow- ^ - - - . fin lng between April for spring pigs, ana ? October for winter pigs. October far- s i on 'jtfjrifi iMi y I Jf** II rftfi TifffiTgp' :-\ rowing gets yonng pigs along to the to ^n?4n? ^ha.Aa*]? nonf a# fhfl ?.# Vuvair age uux Uiuycaiy yui. v v* w*v winter. Just when they should be 3 growing their best Is when the ex- jar tremely cold weather is coming on and cos k good house is necessary to induce wii them to make proper gains in weight no With a well designed and carefully 0nl built house, any farmer can raise pure- Th bred stock and sell the best animals at lie' high prices. Hogs for fattening should cei be made to weigh from 180 to 200 the pounds when they are eight months all old. This is generally the most prof- the ltable age and weight and it is the tell age and weight wanted by the pack- ( fers. In order to attain this standard, j? each pig must gain nearly a pound per . day from birth to market tine. This ?, Is a very profitable average gain for the hogs to make and it is reasonable ' to expect such a gain when well-bred bogs are well tea ana property careu ^ for in every way. ! In the accompanying plan it will be 1 noticed that the pens are small. In practice it has been found better not to nest more than five or six pigs to- n gether. They are better in small lots, wo even if the pens are made quite small. ? When a house is narrow and built s. 0D1 with a double set of windows, it is ? Sir "nngRg|n|nQ * I rMiinHimna^ I rp|j 1LLLCELUJ w1 km no Fil LCuioa nmu ran/ Cel 1 i 1 '' sei Floor Plan. Ta chi easier to get the sun into every part < )ot the house than it is when the house . iai is wider. The length, of course, makes iB| no difference in this respect. i j0 The foundation of the building is ga concrete and a concrete floor is spread l6 over the entire surface with proper gc gutters formed along the length of the 0fl building on each side of the central \y passage. Troughs shown on the plan on may also be built of concrete, the sa forms required for their construction i being exceedingly simple. A concrete W( floor in a hoghouse is almost an abso- q, lute necessity, but it is too cold for 0(j hogs to sleep on. For this reason, the jj( HC81S arc pitujtu uu nwuvi* qq floors which may be moved about for te cleaning. These floors are about half te the size of the pens. There should be p, a ridge around the edge of each floor ra, to hold" the bedding. | R( ' The upper windows are pivoted so fo any number of them may be pulled open for ventilation. With five shoats In each pen, the house will be warm enough to have some of the windows f open most of the time. Of course, hogs need ventilation just as much as any other animal In order that they may maintain their good health. w The pens are divided with solidly ai constructed fencing, space between in boards being sufficient to allow a free Q. rcnlatlon of air. Strong gates with 4 ding bolt locks are placed at the H rner of each pen next to the central B ssage. The remainder of the front ffi each pen is taken up with the jngh, above which a swinging gate H hinged to swing into the pen, a slid- H g rod stop being dropped down M ainst the inside edge of the trough 5S hstl/1 Hia irot-a nnon whllp thp trmiph JUV1U CUV/ gUiV V^/VU IIM?V -? ? - a being filled. The same slide rod NS :ks the gate shut when it is dropped HB wn against the outside edge of the H >ugh. KB This building is framed in a simple B t rigid manner. The roof is sup- H rted by the two outside walls and Hg two inside bents which define the Hj atral passage. The extension of one H these bents forms the wall in which U e pivoted windows are framed. A H rtical post is set at the inner corners each pen. The plate surmounting ese posts supports the rafters. Latal bracing is spiked to the posts and the outer wall studs and also to the o rows of posts immediately beneath b plate below the pivoted windows, te foundation under the two rows of sts is not continuous, but consists f a concrete pier carried down to a lid footing under each of the posts. lese piers are placed at the time of A ilding the floor. One very good fl jthod consists in embedding metal 1 ckets of suitable size in the soft Qcrete above the piers in the exact ration of the posts which will then 1 held firmly In place in the-finlshed B Ilding. I The floor plan illustration also pre- J its a suggestion for the fencing and en pens which might be used in nnectlon with this building. The en pens are formed between the A nth side of the building and the I dn inclosing fence, which is 11 feet ^ >m the building on this side. Movie fences are set up to divide off , ? """o fl>o nnnnalfo stria of C puuot vu UiV vk"vv V ?? ? s building the inclosing fence is built ^ ise to the wall to form a runway, ar the center of which it is intend- ? that a dipping vat be constructed, lis illustration also shows a feed d litter track installation. The track continuous through the building and ' t at each end, across the inclosure - O the gates In line with the end doors mmm the building. ^ There are hundreds of farms where R ger animals wearing thick hairy B its are carefully housed through the B iter, while the hogs with practically B hair to protect them, are left with B y a loose board roof over them. B ere are farmers who seem* to be- fl re that a hog Is tough and that * B tain amount of abuse Is good for B im. Hogs are the most abused of B domestic animals and yet they are B > most profitable when handled la* B llgently. j B \ ^Bf THE PRESIDENTS' CHURCH fl ny Prominent Men Have Worshiped M at 8t John's In National B Capital. : B Sstoric St John's Protestant Epls- fl >al church, just across Lafayette fl tare from the White House, In B ich more presidents ai^d men. prom- I , nt in Washington official life have H rshiped than In any other church I tho nntfnnnl hna Pelehrftted ffi centennial anniversary. The pres- Rh t rector Is Rev. Roland Cotton 3t John's was the first building to . erected on Lafayette square after ; White House, which was completed fJU 1800, the Christian Herald observes. ^ e presidents of the United States o worshiped here were John Quincy ams, Madison, Monroe, Van Buren, lliam Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Imore and Arthur, and in more relt times the Wlyte House was reprelted by Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Qpe ft, who made St. John's church their m Ul tU 11UU1C* r _ Other prominent people were regu ly seen in the congregation, includl Stephen Decatur, Henry Clay, Tho hn C. Calhoun, Chief Justice Fuller, feej ^ lmon P. Chase, Benjamin F. Butler, 3piittij wis Cass, George Bancroft, Winfleld ^ ott and George Dewey. Its rectors ' ' iciated at nearly all of the early ' 0 a< hite House weddings, many notable es having taken place within its laisy cred walls. / anc* *( The denominations have been pretty phatec ?11 represented in the presidency. We ant attended the Metropolitan Meth- a glas 1st church, McKinley the Foundry ;poonl ethodist church"; Benjamin Harrison ft t0 id Cleveland attended the Presbyrian church; Wilson is a Presby* orevjQ rian and, like Cleveland, the son of a * ^ esbyterian minister; Garfield was a ' ember of the Disciples' church and ' eans josevelt attended the Dutch Be- the f1 rmed church. , The Large Families for the Poor. and h Dr. G. W. Kosmak of New York op- is woi >sing family limitation ideas, is out a] loted as saying that "the poor must waste ive large families to recruit the up- Spienc >r classes and to furbish men and ft js s omen to do the rough and unpleas- ^ ^ it work of the world." In hls.opinn, quantity as well, as quality is.. ;eded In the production of jChil^rien. JL 111 ALWAYS AT Good prin business. Jo~printin l pour Dusir pou where Printing that' *ny more tl I r Now is the time Printing. Yc THE PREi Printing Tha ' ""ji at the drug sto # n , .11 , to make anyone 1SS Ol Hot Water biliousness, cor _ _ i r i trouble or rheur Before Breakfast ** SUbj tatino. Try it a Splendid Habit you wi"10 r better in every n sluices of ths iyt.m e.sh CL|p AN ornlng and wash away the , >o]sonous, stagnant matter. , ^ t se of us who are accustomed to Cincinnati Man ull and heavy when we arise; Up Corns or ig headache, stuffy from a ' I.ift Off Foul tongue, *nasty breath, acid :h, lame back, can, instead, ook and feel as fresh as a Ouch ! ?! ? always by washing the poisons talk will be heai >xins from the body with phos- if people trouble 1 hot water each morning. low the simple should drink, before breakfast, cinnati authority s of real hot water with a tea- few drops of a ful of limestone phosphate in when applied t 1 1 flush from the stomach, liver, corn or naraenc ,rs and ten yards of bowels the ness at once, ar 'US day's indigestible waste, callus dries up aile and poisonous toxins; thus without pain, ing, sweetening and purifying He says freez itire alimentary tract before ly and never.in g more food into the stomach, tates the surrou s action of limestone phosphate bottle of freezo ot water on an empty stomach tie at any drug iderfully invigorating. It cleans tively remove e il the sour fertnentations, gases corn or callus f and acidity and gives one a lions of Americ lid appetite for breakfast and come this ann< aid to be but a little while until inauguration of " ?* 1 ? in +V10 vnnr druererist d JSCS UCglll IV Oyjk/VM* lit w**v j ~ ? . ows. A quarter pound of lime- tell him to ord< phosphate will cost very little you.?Adv. YOUR SERVICE IP V ting is the That is the g that will less "stand ver you se 'stands up" dpi tan the "Iay-c I ; to place your > u'll need lots of i . / )S AND BAN t Stands Up. re, but is sufficient 1 who is bothered with 'A\//\flS TT1 istipation, stomach jjl I v AVUll^ 1J natism a real enthu- j|j; ect of internal sani- VJVV^^|WW1 and you are assured ;j;? Hf| I M J J I ok better and feel ? IVI II M I way shortly.?Adv. I 1H1U1I D PIN Ati o*r?r?C" r\ 1 f WIFE'S DRESSER j|| ALL SIZES OI Tells How to Shrivel | Calluses so They ? With Fingers. d less here in town 1 id with corns will fol- >z ijTjW^WjT^ r, who claims that a J |z * drug callftd freezone |j IL ' 7r<r ^ one dries immediate- jj! flames or even irri- T.. D , e , < , . . ? ! [ *"?? Red Seal < inding skin. A small ;;;; Battery will give ne will cost very lit- you the cervice store, but will posi- |i| y?? want. Once very hard or soft a u,er *ou w'" *" rom one's feet. Mil- j|> wa*# an women will welmncement toe the | . | | f) f) rf me uigu nccio. *x xj W'SK WW WW oesn't have freezone jjj I I || I 1.I. er a small bottle for ;|; . *** 1 . * * ' s ?'s . "O 1:JU;5 fl \ir. j ' & 4 THIS LINE I ;.'s . ;"? ' ? nwniHr ' I -'! I . j ?"-\ :- | dress of j kind we j I MAKE 1 I up" for |j 1L .11 ncl it n't cost youi'm lown" kind j T 4 i JBL?^ \ 'vl order for Fall I it this year | A , \ NER CO. | Phone 10 | HT 1 =? ROUBLE ON ROAD USE jj ni im tires & : r.l.lll TURFS ; UUJI* 1 . * v/uuu M HAND AT ALL TIMES i! ??? ? ??t ; ; eeusfor i| iuto Tools - Spark Plugs # ? Patches ? Auto Oil ? Mud Hooks ? I .nd other useful articles1 ;; for the car owner 1 i; or - i; MORE MILEAGE ... buy... Standard Gasoline r j j_ T li Station on lviam street i Operated by C. P. BROWN, JR. n.tfinrt f!n ll 11 lllllg vv. I A