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Q. I would like to ask what preparation Mr. Giinn uses for 

 the purpose of getting rid of worms in his hogs ? 



Mr. Gunn: I have run the whole gauntlet. 1 use nothing 

 now. I tried all kinds of stock foods. The last one I tried the 

 agent sold me $15 worth. I fed it as directed; I had six or seven 

 hundred hogs, and I watched pretty closely to sec if they were 

 wormy, and I found two worms. So the next time the agent came 

 around I told him that $7.50 apiece for worms was too high-priced, 

 and I wouldn't buy any more. 



I am situated a little bit differently from a good many. I have 

 a creek running through my field that is spndy. There are places 

 in it where the hogs can root into the bank and get mud to wallow 

 in. Once in a while it rises and washes down some fresh sand. 

 I have been out after a freshet when the hogs would be out eating 

 that sand just as a boy does sugar. I have also seen them eat 

 stones as big as the point of my finger. Worms aren't going to live 

 in their intestines. So I feel as though I am not competent to 

 answer that question. 



Q. Have you any special breed of hogs that you favor? 



Mr. Gunn : 1 will plead ignorance of that. I never have had 

 but one breed on the place since I have been in the business. They 

 happen to be Duroc Jerseys. I suppose if they had been Poland 

 China I would have stayed by them. I did a foolish little thing 

 once, yet it made me some money. I crossed it with Yorkshire. 

 The result was that I was able to sell sixteen carloads of hogs 

 from them. But on some of them I made two crosses, and I 

 shouldn't have done that. ]\Iy herd now is practically Duroc 

 Jersey, and I expect to keep them. 



President Sykes: Mr. Hood touched on a question that might 

 be of interest to some : that of making a floor out of dirt and woven 

 wire fencing. It might be well for him to explain here how that 

 is done. 



Mr.> Hood: I know nothing about this more than everybody 

 else knows who has read the papers, and of course that means 

 eveiybody here. The idea is simply to take some fine woven 

 wire and put it in your hog floor. I have always insisted that the 

 proper floor Avas the earth floor, and I Avas bothered with the hogs 

 rooting holes in it, and finally we hit on the idea of using Avoven 

 wire. Get a reasonable fine mesh, tAVO inches square, perhaps, with 



