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"Feed corn and all the milk slop I can raise." 



"Feed corn and a slop of tankage, oil meal and shipstuff, and pasture." 



"Feed corn and milk." 



"Let them eat with other hogs." 



"Feed shorts and Alfalmo slop. In cold weather mix with warm water, in warm 

 weather mix with cold water for dinner. Feed corn morning and night." 



"Feed corn and oilmeal soaked twelve hours, and let run on pasture (clover 

 pasture preferred). 



"Alfalfa pasture and corn as soon as they will pass into a creep where the sows 

 cannot get to it." 



"Alfalfa pasture and shelled corn and a slop of equal parts oilmeal and cotton- 

 seed meal. I like them mixed better than either alone." 



"Feed plenty of slop made of mill feed." 



"Give free access to grass and ear corn." 



"Feed milk, shorts and cooked corn. Soak shorts twelve hours and corn twenty- 

 four hours." 



"Feed with sow. Give ear corn, milk, dishwater and scraps in a slop." 



"No particular feed." 



"Feed slop of shipstuff and wheat bran, soaked twelve hours. 



"Feed with sow. Give thick, sweet slop of water and ground feed." 



"Feed ear corn, and skim milk fresh from separator, and clean pasture." 



"Feed corn and let them run on grass. 



"Feed shelled corn, and let them run on a large white clover pasture." 



"Feed a sweet slop made of mill-feed." 



"Feed ground wheat." 



"Feed mostly slop of oats, corn or ground rye. Grind and sometimes cook it if I 

 have time." 



"Feed corn and slop." 



"Feed corn and slop from the house and generally some skim milk." 



"Feed skim milk and shipstuff." 



"Feed corn and grass." 



"Begin to feed them as soon as they will eat a slop of soaked oats and corn." 



"Feed shelled corn and oats soaked from one feed to the next, but not soured." 



"Have a clover and bluegrass pasture with a creep for pigs. Feed one ear of 

 corn and one-half quart of slop made of bran and oilmeal. Mix bran and oilmeal dry 

 in a trough, pour water in until a thick slop is formed, and tlien turn pigs into creep." 



"Slop twice daily with almost all the corn they want on bluegrass pasture. Mix 

 the slop and let it stand from one feed until the next." 



"Feed pigs with the sows. Feed skim milk in a creep." 



"Feed soaked or chopped grain and a slop made by stirring oilmeal into skimmed 

 milk and kitchen slop." 



"Feed some shelled corn and as much shorts and skimmed milk as possible. Mix 

 the slop fresh each feed." 



"Feed with sows on corn and grass." 



"Feed shorts and fresh milk, soaked from one feed to the next." 



"Feed with sows on corn and grass." 



"Let the pigs run with sows in summer and feed some shorts and warm water in 

 winter." 



"Feed all they will eat of a slop made of shorts, bran, chopped corn, oats and 

 oilmeal mixed with water and fed fresh." 



"Feed with sows on a fresh slop." 



It will be noted that of seventy replies, only nine mentioned feeding 

 corn alone to the unweaned pigs. Of the feeds used to supplement the 

 com or to be fed without corn, skimmed milk and some kind of mill feed, 

 such as shorts, middlings or shipstuff, were the ones most generally used. 

 The number of farmers using the different kinds of feeds are as follows : 



A — 25 



