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when cool, feed it to our pigs for a few weeks before they are butch- 

 ered. Within the last twelve months we have sold ten fat pigs. The 

 youngest was six months old, the oldest eleven months old ; the 

 smallest weighed eighty-four pounds, and the largest one hundred and 

 eighty-two pounds. Two of these six months' old pigs were from a 

 small China soav and a very large boar. They inherited early maturity 

 from the sow, and size from the boar. They weighed one hundred and 

 thirty -five pounds, and one hundred and thirty-seven pounds. We feed 

 {o our store hogs in winter the slop of the house, a few oats or roots, and 

 sometimes a little corn. Last summer my boar and two breeding sows 

 lived in a field of clover and timothy. We fed them one ear of corn a 

 day, giving the boar a quarter of a pail of milk in addition once a day. 

 The AVaukesha butchers were anxious to buy them when living on this 

 pasture. It is far more pleasing to have a breed of hogs that the 

 butchers desire to buy from the pasture, than to have a neighbor come 

 and say, ' Your hogs are in my grain — you must come and get them out, 

 and take care of them.' 



" Grass breed sows are poor breeders. The pigs are, at first, very 

 small and slim, but with care in feeding the sow, and a good, comfortable 

 pen, the pigs can be raised. I have often been grieved, in passing the 

 pig-sty of a poor Farmer, to see his hogs in a pen with the sky for a 

 covering ; and after the rainy weather, with the mud several inches deep 

 in the pen. It is not surprising that hogs will not gain in such a place, 

 though fed ever so well. If a man is too poor to build a comfortable 

 pen, he had better sell his hogs, for they will only add to his poverty. 



" Our Farmers here were. accustomed to let a sow raise one lot of pigs, 



and then fatten her. This soon runs out a good breed. Now, when they 



^et a good breeding sow, they keep her year after year, and expressly for 



breeding. We have now some very fine pigs from a grass-breed sow, 



and a Mocho boar. 



' " If we depended on an Eastern market, we should make heavier pork. 



We now prefer that breed of hogs that will give an hundred weight 



:of pork from the smallest amount of feed. 



Joseph Carpenter." 



William Knight's Statement. 



- " The weight of my sow, exhibited at the Fair at Milwaukee, was five 

 hundred and thirty-two pounds, being then in store order. Her breed 



