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Mr. Roberts made a few more remarks as follows: "I do not 

 think a hog should be grown on grass alone but I think the feed 

 should not interfere with the development. Nine-tenths of the hogs 

 in the pasture are killed before they are eight weeks old by feed- 

 ing them corn." 



Mr. Lambing said : ' ' The question of alfalfa has come up and 

 as it is a comparatively new feed I would like to have Mr. Rowe, 

 who is having experience with alfalfa, tell us about it." 



Mr. Rowe refused to say anything about it except that "It 

 was all right." Mr. Lambing replied: "I have observed that 

 such fellows as Rowe and Swallow who know more than the whole 

 bunch of us won't tell anything and we fellows that don't know 

 anything are always talking." 



i\Ir. IMcTavish said : "I think this is a very important question 

 and I think that the woven wire fence is revolutionizing the hog 

 industry in the corn belt, and when the farmers and breeders learn 

 to use everj^ bit of pasture on their places and use every bit of 

 waste in all the feeds, then we will be freer from cholera, and we 

 will have better and more profitable hogs. It is coming about 

 very rapidly with the advent of the w'oven wire fence. It won't do 

 to let the pigs lie behind the crib with nothing but corn nor it 

 won't do to let them have only grass. I believe in feeding a lit- 

 tle corn all the time to balance up." 



Following these remarks and closing the afternoon session, Dr. 

 J. H. ^leXeill, of Ames, Iowa, gave the following interesting talk. 



TUBERCULOSIS IN SWINE. 



DR. J. H. M'NEILL, I. S. C, AMES, lA. 



I assure you it is a pleasure to me to be with you this afternoon and 

 attempt to discuss a subject that is of very vital importance to all of us. 

 I like to meet with the live stock men of Iowa, the swine breeders and the 

 cattle breeders; and I do not believe that we find anywhere a more enthu- 

 siastic and interested band of men than we do among those engaged in 

 that work in Iowa. There is a story that is told of the swine breeders and 

 their interest in their work, and it runs something like this: A man 

 drove up to a farm and inquired of the boy for the owner of the place. 

 The boy said his father was at home, that "he was down in the lane 

 feeding the hogs. You can tell pa. He has a hat on." They are interested 

 in their work and interested in producing something good. 



The subject of tuberculosis is one of worldwide importance. It is one 

 that we are all interested in. We are interested in the subject from the 

 standpoint of human tuberculosis, and probably from that cause we take 



