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and may be remedied by cutting down the feed and inducing the pigs to 

 take exercise. 



Worms are best cured by the use of turpentine, santonin, etc. The 

 majority of farmers, however, adopt preventive measures rather than 

 curative measures, and feed such remedies as salt, ashes, charcoal, coper- 

 as, etc. 



Pork w411, in the future, as it has been in the past, be the most profit- 

 able manner of marketing the great corn crop of the middle states. This 

 is especially true in the case of the small farmer who understands the 

 importance of maintaining the fertility of his soil by returning to the 

 «oil its fertility by the feeding of the crops on the land that has pro- 

 duced them, and who cannot afford to put a large amount of capital and 

 equipment into breeding stock. No other domestic animal will repro- 

 duce itself as quickly nor in so great numbers as the hog. Neither will 

 any other domestic animal, except young lambs, make so economical gains 

 vduring the fattening period as the ordinary porker. 



Missouri is excelled in the production of pork only by Iowa, Illinois 

 and Nebraska — states having a much larger acreage devoted to corn rais- 

 ing, showing that the production of corn and hogs go hand in hand, so 

 to speak. For the amount of land devoted to corn raising, no state in 

 the Union excels Missouri in the number of hogs produced. And why 

 should this not be true? No point in the State is more than twelve 

 hours ride from a great packing center, with a stock market that pays 

 full market value for hogs. There is no part of the State that will not 

 grow to perfection some kind of leguminous crop which makes ideal hog 

 pasture, and very few sections but produce an abundance of corn on 

 which to finish what the pasture has begun. 



The ever increasing value of land demands that more attention be 

 paid to the care and management of all kinds of live stock, and especi- 

 ally with stock raised from birth to maturity on the farms of the corn- 

 belt. As hogs are one of the most important products of the State, the 

 <;are and management of the brood sow and her litter should be given 

 more attention. The raising of a pig to weaning time and getting him 

 Avell started after weaning means, in most cases, a money-making porker 

 for his producer. During this time the foundation is being laid for the 

 fat hog of a few months later. 



"With the possible exception of better pastures, nothing will increase 

 the profit of hog raising in the State more than better care and attention 

 of the brood sow and her litter. With this growing need in mind, a list 

 of questions relative to the care of the brood sow and litter, was addressed 

 to several hundred of the most successful hog raisers of the State. This 

 list of questions covered the more important phases of the care of breed- 



