SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART X. 631 



of to take a bunch of hogs worth from ^1,000 to $1,500 to the far side 

 of the clover field early in the morning to give them an opportunity to 

 begin the daily increase of your bank account of from $7 to $15, at a 

 cash outlay for grain and mill feed of only $2 or $3. 



It is very necessary to provide a place for them to wallow and get 

 cool, or they will not return to the field until they are starved to it. 

 Good drinking water is also necessary. If you will give them about one 

 gallon each of pretty good slop before taking them to the field, you will 

 be amply repaid for labor and mill feed. Do not feed them anything at 

 night, but leave them in the clover field to come in at their pleasure. 

 Many of them will be in the field sampling the three and four leaf 

 clovers, while the whippoorwill's song is being sung. 



I will now give you the results obtained in feeding two bunches of 

 hogs in Ohio in the seventies: 



A gentleman living about four miles from our place fatted a car 

 load of hogs. He had a fine clover field adjoining his feed lot and 

 after his hogs were fatted, he said to me: "I would not give three strains 

 for a clover field for a hog pasture. "Why," said he, "they would not even 

 go out to look at the clover." Now, he owned a good farm, and besides 

 directing the work on this farm he was the principal stock buyer and 

 shipper in that part of the country. I mention this, that you may know 

 he was a man of average ability. You ask, "Why did this man fail to 

 be benefited by his fine clover field?" The answer is, he pursued the 

 wrong method. These hogs would weigh one hundred and thirty pounds 

 the first of May,. He had good shade and water in the feed lot, had 

 plenty of corn and was a liberal feeder. They would eat their corn in 

 the morning, take a drink and lie down. "WTiy should they go for a 

 feed of clover when they already had a liberal breakfast of corn? He 

 fed them at noon and they would do as they did in the morning and 

 the same in the evening. When these hogs were fatted, he just had 

 little fat hogs. They had been grown and fatted principally on corn 

 at a cost equal to what they sold for on the market. 



Now I wish to show the results obtained by feeding another bunch 

 of hogs in the same township; also the method pursued. In the spring 

 of 1870, on my father's farm, was a fine twenty-acre clover field and a 

 bunch of fall pigs w-hich had wintered fairly well. There were about 

 thirty-five of them and their weight was close to one hundred thirty- 

 five pounds. About the twenty -fifth of April, these hogs were turned in- 

 to this field of clover. There was some other stock in this field, prin- 

 cipally horses. The water and shade, which were excellent, were on the 

 north side of this field. As we went to our work each morning we 

 passed the south side of this field and we would take a part of the 

 barrel of slop and not to exceed two ears of corn apiece for the hogs. 

 (The slop and corn were placed on a sled and drawn by one horse.) 

 We would feed them at the southwest corner of the field and as soon 

 as they finished their little lunch they would commence to eat clover 

 and advance toward the water on the north side of the field. When we 

 came home to dinner, there was not a hog to be seen. When we came 

 home from our work in the evening, every hog would be out getting 

 his supper. Every morning, those hogs were near the south side of the 



