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Lot Fencing. — The term lot is here used to designate larger enclosures, 

 such as those furnishing pasture and forage crops. In pursuing 

 economic methods of swine husbandry, pasture and forage crops are 

 essential throughout the greatest possible portion of the year. Few crops 



Fig. 48. 



provide continuous pasturage throughout the growing season and even 

 those which do may require resting spells for recuperation. Continuous 

 pasturing and foraging by hogs is largely dependent on a succession of 

 these tw.o classes of crops. As a small area can be made to produce suf- 

 ficient green crop for large numbers of hogs, this fact, in addition to 

 the two already stated would seem to require either a number of small 

 lots or one large one subdivided by portable fences or hurdles. Portable 

 fences constructed of light lumber have been commonly used in the past 

 but this material is no longer practicable under general conditions. If the 



