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grown successfully in some localities. If this be true then some one 

 has not been treating the raw material intelligently. Brains has 

 not directed muscle in the right manner. Nature has said "Thus 

 far shalt thou go and no further." Here then is the turning point. 



Therefore we teach of the home, the school and the soil. Without 

 good homes, the school can not be supplied with good children, or 

 good teachers, and the brains required to work intelligently and 

 successfully with that intricate and poorly understood matter, the 

 soil, will not be sufficiently developed to meet the demands of the 

 age in which we live. The future farmer should be better than 

 his father. If not, both are failures. The one is a failure because 

 he has not instilled into that youthful mind the thoughts and prin- 

 ciples for which he has lived. The other is a failure because he 

 has not embraced the opportunity of enlarging upon the possibilties 

 of the future. 



'Tis ours to dignify and elevate our calling by carefully guarding 

 and protecting our interests, rather than allow disinterested parties 

 to direct our affairs, remembering that the hope of agriculture lies 

 in the home and the school. 



The following paper, as per program, was presented by Prof. 

 Watson: 



FEEDING SWINE. 



By Pbof. G. C. Watson, State College, Pa. 



Swine have been known to exist, both in Europe and in Africa, 

 since very early times. Some bits of early history mention swine, 

 but do not give any clue as to origin or history of domestication. 

 While a species of wild hog is found in this country, yet it is not 

 thought that the domestic swine came from this species. Natural- 

 ists and others hold that the wild swine have descended from the 

 wild hogs of Europe and Asia. The mingling of the blood of these 

 two species, which represent distinct types, have produced the 

 various breeds of improved domestic swine of to-day. Marked 

 changes have been made in producing the domesticated swine of 

 to-day from their wild progenitors. Man is responsible for the 

 great change that has been wrought in transforming the narrow- 

 bodied, long-legged, swift-footed animal of the forest to the com- 

 pact-bodied, quiet, peaceful animal of domestication. He has cre- 

 ated an organization whose energies are expended in an entirely 

 different direction from those of the wild stock. In nature, the 

 energies of the swine were largely, if not wholly, expended in seek- 

 ing food for sustenance and in propagating the species. In domes- 



