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round of pleasure, although neither the path of the dairyman or the 

 swine breeder is strewn with roses, each has his troubles. The swine 

 breeder has occasional visits of swine plague, leaving him a much poorer and 

 a no wiser man, yet for a series of years the feeding and breeding of swine 

 either for market or for breeding purposes will be found a profitable busi- 

 ness. How many cattle feeders have we that could make any money were 

 it not for the hogs. The hogs are also a profit to the dairyman in using the 

 by-products of his dairy. They also pay the grain farmer by condensing a 

 portion of his crop of grain and grass into first class meat, so from what- 

 ever side you look at it, the hog is a source of profit. The more time you 

 devote to him, and the better you care for him, the better he will pay you. 

 You must get the idea out of your head that anything is good enough for a 

 hog. Better have the idea in your head that nothing is too good for him. 



The President: The paper is open for discussion. 



Mr. Ames : I would like to ask Mr. Lovejoy how much he 

 will have to sell his hogs for in the market, when he has to feed 

 sixty -cent corn? 



Mr. Lovejoy: I shouldn't feed altogether sixty- cent corn; 

 I would mix it with clover and grass. A pig that will weigh 225 

 pounds will make one-half of its growth from its mother alone. 

 You can feed one -half clover and corn. But half the growth of 

 the pig marketed today is pretty nearly obtained from her 

 mother. 



Mr. Ames : Half of a 225 pounds of a pig at eight months' 

 time that is a little strong. I do not believe there are very many 

 market raisers of hogs that will do that. Then it costs some- 

 thing to raise the mother. I would like to have that put in 

 dollars and cents. I do not believe it is paying us today to 

 raise hogs at four cents a pound. 



Mr. Lovejoy: You are not raising them for that today. 

 You speak about the sow and the pigs. Take a sow with eight 

 pigs and give her a little slop and these pigs will weigh 100 

 pounds the day they are three months old. It does not cost to 

 exceed three or four dollars to feed that sow. I don't care if 

 you feed her sixty- cent corn, or shorts or tankage, or anything 

 else, when they are ninety days old they are ready to wean. 

 This same feed continued right along, will make them a pound 

 a day. 



Mr. Ames : The point I was trying to get at was that the 

 average man in the State of Iowa who raises hogs for the market 

 has got to grow these hogs a certain time of the year. These 

 pigs will be dropped the latter part of April or month of May. 



