Corn Crib and Hog House 

After building his house and barn, Henry Schumacher began acquiring animals, including Poland China hogs. Pigs are not native to North America, but were brought here by European settlers, and have long been an important source of meat.

Although these two buildings are not original to the Schumacher Farm, Henry Schumacher did have a corn crib and a hog house for his pigs in the early 1900s. The hog house provided shelter and safety for the animals, and also had small doors low to the ground so the pigs could enter and leave their house as they wished. Food for the pigs was stored in the corn crib nearby. The corn crib’s slanted walls helped keep most rainwater from getting the corn wet. The slots in the walls encouraged the airflow that dried the corn and helped preserve it by discouraging mold and rot. Henry used a hand-operated machine called a sheller that removed the kernels from the cob. When it was time to feed the pigs, “Father carried the corn from the crib in a metal bushel basket and dumped it on the ground,” Marcella recalled.

Both the corn crib and hog house came from a farm near Sun Prairie and was donated to Schumacher Farm Park in 2000. The buildings were moved to this site then restored to their present condition.