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type of hog-. For instance, we find among the Duroc Jerseys 

 some hogs that look hke the bacon type and then there are 

 others of the same breed that are rather big boned and loosely 

 built." 



Mr. Munson expressed himself on this subject as fol- 

 lows : "My idea of this bacon hog business is this ; that if 

 you feed any hog on bacon feed it will be a bacon hog. Take 

 any bacon breed and feed corn and you will have a corn fed 

 hog. You can not produce good bacon in Iowa where we feed 

 corn. When you feed corn you will not produce bone and 

 muscle but fat." 



Mr. Robinson agreed with this, saying, "I want to 

 say that you are right. And why do you feed your 

 hogs corn ? Because they bring you more money than bacon hogs. 

 That is what we raise the corn for." 



Mr. Funk gave his thought on the bacon hog in these words : 'T 

 think there are two different breeds. The bacon hog is the hog 

 that takes exercise ; the fat hog is the hog that eats and lays down 

 The bacon hog will eat his meal, take a run around the pasture 

 and come back and eat again and so makes solid fat." 



Mr. Munson asked how long it would take to make a bacon 

 hog into a lard hog or a lard hog into a bacon hog^ if you feed 

 right, to which Prof. Curtiss answered, "It is easier to ask 

 some of these questions than to answer them. I will 

 say this, however, that all that has been said here in regard 

 to feeding being the factor in determining the type of our hog.s 

 is strictly true. We produce in general in Iowa the fat hog 

 because of the conditions under which it is produced being 

 favorable to that type. At the same time, there is another 

 type that is distinct and recognized as such and it is easier to 

 change that type by breeding within a single generation or 

 within two or three generations than it is by feeding. We 

 have conducted stune experiments along that line and while 

 you can take a bacon hog and make him fat it is easier to 

 change the type by breeding. If you take a car load of the fat 

 type as pigs and feed them the best possible bacon ration tha.t you 



