William A. Radford · Radford Architectural Company · leaf 73
ise. Sows differ as much as cows intheir milking proclivites. One sowwill raise eight or nine pigs, and fur-nish all the sustenance they require;while another will not have milkenough for half that many. This iswhere individual attention is re-quired. To get the profit out of pigs,it is necessary… … As an individual hog house propo-sition, nothing is quite so satisfac-tory as an A shaped house, built asshown above so it may be moved about.Such houses may be placed in a rowin the early spring, with a panel ofportable fence between. Later, as thepigs get older, these small cots maybe hauled off…
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