o6 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept.^ 



DISCUSSION. 

 QUESTION : How about fattening hogs for market? 



MR. CAMPBELL: That is profitable, and they should 

 be finished at six to eight months of age. A few days ago 

 two wagon-loads brought $1,1U0 for us. 



QUESTION : AMiat is your opmion regarding hogging 

 down corn? 



'MR. CAI\IPI>ELL: I haven't had any experience. So far 

 north we do not raise corn, ownng to labor conditions, etc. 

 I would change my opinion of ten years ago. There is no, 

 doubt but what it can be hogged down successfully. 



QUESTION : What causes pigs to break dov/n in the 

 l:'ack ; hind quarters to show humped up appearance? 



]\IR. CA]\IPBELL: That is more or less hereditary. I 

 would absolutely refuse to breed anything of that character. 

 Such pigs are apparently all right to a certain age and until 

 they reach about one hundred pounds. I thought this con- 

 dition was caused by feeding, but decided later it was a mere 

 matter of heredity and eliminated it by selection. 



QUESTION : How warm do you keep the brood house? 



AIR. CAMPBELL: We have steam coils in hoggery for 

 farrowing pigs, but do not keep the hoggery warm, from 

 forty-eight to fifty-five degrees. The men work in their wdth 

 their coats and gloves on. The farrowing sows are kept 

 nearest the heat, and we plan as the pigs grow older to move 

 them farther away, and later they receive very little ad- 

 vantage from the heat. 



QUESTION: How do you handle hog cholera? 



AIR. CAAIPBELL: You may be ever so careful and sani- 

 tary, but sooner or later cholera will get started where any 

 number of pigs are kept. The germ is brought in in some 

 \Ya.y. There is only one thing to do and that is to vaccinate 

 every hog and keep it up. 



QX'ESTION : Until what age do you keep those pigs in 

 the pens? 



