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west. Naturaly the cattle wander very little and if left alone, 

 the hogs would travel still less. The barn is sixty rods from the 

 cribs, and every morning just as the feeder drives out into the 

 pasture, he calls the hogs up to him to be fed. That stone kills 

 two birds. The hogs must walk, at least, 120 rods, and before 

 they get back to the barn, to bother by diving in under the wagon, 

 the feeder is through putting out the feed. Our watering troughs 

 are arranged to let the hogs have plenty of pure water, but not 

 muddy the cattle water. We use more or less medicine — not stock 

 food — buying it in barrel lots and doing our own mixing. The 

 mixture is three parts of Sal Soda, of Glauber's Salts, of Copperas 

 and one part of Sulphur. The principal effects are laxativeness 

 and extermination of worms. In winter, we keep it out before the 

 hogs at all times, putting out fresh quantities three or four times 

 a week. In summer once a week suffices. Our hogs vary in size 

 and weight. In buying, we like big framed lean hogs; the range 

 of weight is from 90 to 175 pounds. Fat chunks and slop fed hogs 

 never do very well following cattle. We ship whenever we can 

 select a load weighing from 225 to 300, the weight depending 

 largely on the market. Our gains, as closely as we can determine, 

 average around a pound and three quarters daily, the rapidity of 

 gain depending on age and condition of hogs and amount of feed 

 they receive. According to the Purdue Station, Indiana feeders 

 report an average of 1.4 pounds and the Missouri Station reports 

 2 pounds. The Ohio Station has gains from .92 to 1.71 pounds, the 

 hog not receiving any extra feed. 



Recently we have been interested in two experiments which 

 are reported by the Purdue Station and the Ohio Station. The re- 

 sults of the experiments show striking value for protein feeds. 

 One when fed to cattle and the other when fed directly to the hogs. 

 I take the liberty of borrowing some of their figures and present 

 them. The Purdue Bulletin is numbered, I believe, 115. Thirty- 

 three cattle were divided into three lots. Lot 1 received corn and 

 clover; lot 2, corn, oil meal, stover and oat straw; lot 3, corn, stover 

 and oat straw. Prof. Cochel says that no extra feed was fed to 

 the hogs. The hogs following lot 1 cattle, gained 1,048 pounds in 

 180 days. Lot 2 hogs gained 996; lot 3 hogs 888; quite a differ- 

 ence in favor of hogs following the corn and clover hay lot. The 

 author also calculated the pork per bushel of corn fed to the cattle. 

 Lot 1, hogs made 2.1 pounds per bushel of corn; lot 2 hogs 1.8 

 pounds; lot 3, 1.78 lbs. The lot 3 hogs were always unthrifty, the 

 big framed lean hogs doing better than the smaller ones. That 



