for summer feeding, and from S4.25 to $7.75 for winter feeding-. The 

 average being $4.43 for the summer and $5.34 for winter production. 



Norfolk. 



Berkshires and Yorkshires are about equally in favor with farmers 

 here. The Tamworth is also quite popular and there are some Chester 

 Whites. Crossing of the Yorkshire or Tamworth with the Berkshire 

 is largely practised. It is said that there was a time when people would 

 be continually changing from one breed to another, but each farmer 

 is now making his choice and trying to stick to it, much to his own 

 advantage. Several expressions of disappointment are noted from those 

 who after they have raised the best type of bacon hogs have failed to 

 secure any better price than their neighbors who marketed hogs unsuit- 

 able for the bacon trade. Grade sires are still used in considerable 

 numbers. The high price prevailing for hogs is stimulating more activity 

 in breeding with promise of a largely increased output within the next 

 year if no marked decline in prices takes place. Each farmer kept on 

 an average 2.05 sows in 1904; 1.87 in 1905, and has 2.15 this year. 

 Bad luck was experienced with some litters during the cold weather of 

 March, but as a rule litters are somewhat larger than usual, the num- 

 ber at weaning time being 7.8. Marketing of hogs during the summer 

 will be about as last year. 



Discussing the cost of feeding a correspondent says: "It depends 

 largely upon the feed used. Clover and rape along with plenty of 

 whey and milk help wonderfully, as do mangels, turnips, and sugar 

 beets in the winter. The finishing should always be with a grain ration." 

 The estimated cost of summer feeding is $4.60 per hundred; winter feed- 

 ing. $5-4°- 



Haldimand. 



Although Yorkshires are by far the leading breed, there is a strong 

 tendency to introduce more Berkshire blood, in hopes of securing easier 

 feeding, earlier maturing hogs. Tamworths and Chester Whites are 

 bred to some extent. About half the correspondents have noticed the 

 use of grade sires in their localities and a large proportion of the sows 

 are grades. 



Individual feeders will endeavor to raise more pigs than usual this 

 year, but the movement is not general. Uncertainty regarding future 

 prices for marketable hogs, and the present high prices of grain tend to 

 retard breeding operations. One writer says: "If buyers would pay 

 a more regular price it would be better for all." Another says: "The 

 feeling of farmers is that there will be a shortage of hogs, but they 

 do not care to increase the output on account of grain being high priced' 

 and hogs are liable to be low when ready for market." 



Farmers are keeping on an average 1.74 sows this year; in 1905 

 they had 1.6, and in 1904, 1.5, which shows that there is a gradual 



