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home with good results and have my pigs coming along with wonderful 

 good growth and I do not stint on corn, as long as they have plenty of 

 clover and milk or anything that will balance it up. Study what to feed 

 your hogs. Mix a good deal of brains, so to speak, in with the feed, 

 /and you will have success. If you do not you will run up against failure. 



To this Mr. Johnson said : 



There seems to be a great problem in pasture for hogs. I have 

 white and red clover and alfalfa and that is what they need. What we 

 want to do is to give our hogs pasture, not put too many together and 

 not breed from too young stock. Do noi use a sow until she is past a 

 year of age. This is an interesting topic and we must think of it. 



The program provided for a paper on the subject, ''Precautions 

 to the Breeder," but the gentleman to whom it was assigned failed 

 to respond. Mr. Turner referred to it briefly, saying: 



What is the meaning of this "precaution of the breeder," that Is 

 as regards business transactions? I think that we, as business men, 

 should do a good, straightforward business. If a man buys an animal 

 for breeding purposes I feel that he is entitled to something that will 

 do him some good. If we sell a thoroughbred hog the buyer is entitled 

 to a pedigree and not have to wait six or eight months for it. I feel 

 that we, as a body, should take some action as regards this matter. T 

 bought a thoroughbred sow some time ago. I have waited five months 

 for the pedigree and am about to send the hog back and demand my 

 money. The seller said she has never raised any pigs for him and 

 she has not for me. I would like to know the idea of the association and 

 how far it justifies it. 



No new light was shed on this vexatious subject : 



"Alfalfa and the Hog," was another subject proposed, but on 



which the paper failed to appear. Henry \Vallace, however, ex- 



prcosed himself on the matter as follows : 



I have lately been out in the alfalfa country and learned that they 

 raise more hogs there than we do, and raise them on alfalfa. Fivo 

 pounds of alfalfa chopped fine and one pound of corn a day will make 

 them gain about six tenths of a pound a day. I spent about a week 

 among the farmers, and what struck me was the fact that hogs groAV 

 on alfalfa into different kinds of hogs. That is, they are longer and 

 more of the bacon type. Alfalfa puts more bone and muscle into them. 

 The Nebras^ta Experiment Station takes pigs fed on corn and then 

 alfalfa and breaks the bones and they find that the breaking strain of 

 the bone of hogs fed on alfalfa is from four hundred and fifty to five 

 hundred pounds and of the corn hogs three hundred and fifty pounds. 

 We can grow alfalfa if we take the proper precaution. We can not 

 cure it, but we can grow it enough for hog pasture, if we go about it in 

 the right way. And I think we can do it with a good deal of success. 



