24 THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Afternoon Session. 



PROFITABLE ADJUNCTS TO DAIRYING. 



M. L,. Aseltine, North Fairfax. 



Every dairy man keeps or ought to keep hogs and while 

 many, with ten or twelve cows, raise about pork enough for 

 their own use, it is possible to double or thribble the income 

 from the hogs on the average farm. To begin with get good 

 stock, registered if you can, as that pays the best. Then ad- 

 vertise in your local or county paper not spasmodically but reg~ 

 ularly, and aim to sell your pork products as pigs or shoats and 

 not as pork. The profit is much greater. From one male 

 and four females I sold $270 worth of pig, shoat and pork in 

 1899. 



Farm stock will be just what the owner makes it. This is 

 true of swine to a greater extent perhaps than of any other 

 animal on the farm. They can exist under adverse conditions 

 and live with less care than any other stock except, perhaps, 

 the hen. On the other hand they will more readilv respond 

 to good care and feed than any animal we raise on the farm. 

 They can eat anything from spring water to oat straw and 

 grow upon it if given something else to fill out the ration. 



Should the dairyman not care to sell breeding stock, his 

 aim should be to get the breed of swine best adapted to his 

 individual surroundings. The man who is forced to keep his 

 swine in a small pen needs a different breed than the one who 

 has large hog pastures. 



In most markets the demand is for a pig* that will dress 125 

 to 200 pounds with as much lean meat as can be had. The 

 time when tons of lard can be sold as pork has passed away. 

 Hence in the selection of breeding stock we should try to get 

 such as will weigh from 100 to 200 pounds in the shortest time 

 with the minimum amount of feed. But whether thorough- 

 bred or scrubs are kept remember that your profit is gauged 

 by the feed and care given. Do not think that because he is 

 only a hog that anything is good enough for him. He ap- 

 preciates good sweet feed and a dry bed and will show his ap- 

 preciation by turning the waste products of the farm and dairy 

 into that very useful commodity, money; and he will do this 



