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I've built an extra hog-house and have bought ten thousand bushels of grain, at a total expense of about $6000. Neither of these items was really needed this year; but as they are our insurance against disease and famine, I secured them early and at low prices.
"If our new hog-house were only finished, you could be absolutely palatial in it. But I think I can do better than any of those. You leave that to me. Only, how about Aunt Lucile? She's essential to the scheme, I suppose. Can you deliver her?" "She'll come if it's put to her right, as a sporting proposition. She really is a good sport you know, the dear old thing. You leave her to me."
The sweat was rolling from his face, his back and arms ached, and his hands, which he couldn't keep dry, were blistered. There were thirty-seven hogs in the hog-house. Dan sat down in the hole. "Maybe if I could git a drink of water, I could hold on a-ways," he said dejectedly. It was past noon when they got into the shed; a cloud of steam rose, and they heard grunts.
They toil not, neither do they spin; but they have a place in the world's economy, and they fit it perfectly. So long as one animal must eat another, the man animal should thank the hog animal for his generosity. Now that my big hog-house seemed so empty, I would gladly have sent into the highways and byways to buy young stock to fill it; but I dared not break my quarantine.
These youngsters were left with their mothers until eight weeks old; then they were put, in bunches of thirty, into the real hog-house, which was by that time completed. It was 200 feet long and 50 feet wide, with a 10-foot passageway through the length of it. On either side were 10 pens 20 feet by 20, each connected with a run 20 feet by 120.
Including my new hog-house and ten thousand bushels of purchased grain, the investment, thought I, must represent quite a little more than $100,000, and I hoped not to go much beyond that sum, for Polly looked serious when I talked of six figures, though she was reconciled to any amount which could be stated in five.
Dan was for getting next a warm cow and beginning to milk. "Not yet," said Claude. "I want to have a look at the hogs before we do anything here." The hog-house was built down in a draw behind the barn. When Claude reached the edge of the gully, blown almost bare, he could look about him.
300 tons of ice at 30 cents per ton $90.00 80 tons of gravel at 25 cents per load 20.00 Fence staples 19.00 Total $129.00 The conference with Sam Jones, the hen man, was deferred until my next visit, and my plans for the cow barn, dairy-house, and hog-house were left to Nelson for consideration, he promising to give me estimates within a few days.
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