A PLACE FOR THE PIG ON THE FARM. 8l 



inches above the first. This will keep hogs, and another wire 

 breast high will turn any kind of stock. We have never had a 

 pig get through the fence. 



QuEs. Do you not have sows when they are farrowing very 

 cross at times ? 



Ans. I have not had a sow on my farm for years but that I 

 could go right in among the pigs and handle them. They are 

 never cross with us. Where a sow has been shut up in a pen and 

 fed on corn, she has been having a fat producing ration, she has 

 had nothing that will produce muscle or bone. She has been 

 robbing nature all winter and she is feverish and cross, and when 

 she approaches the litter of pigs she bites a pig and gets a taste 

 of the blood, a taste of that feed which she has been deprived of 

 all winter, and she eats them up. We want to look after their 

 wants carefully, to take so much pride in them that we will give 

 them proper care, and then we shall make a success of the 

 business. 



