FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 25 



The average man is going to get his pigs on the market all at 

 the same time. 



Mr. Lovejoy : Why do you all want to raise your pigs the 

 same months? Why don't you raise two litters a year? That 

 is the very thing that "busts" the prices. 



A Member : I would like to ask whether slacked soft coal is 

 just as good as charcoal? 



Mr. Lovejoy: Slacked coal has nothing in it but sulphur. 



A Member : In regard to feeding slops and shorts, in what 

 way do you regulate the amount the pig is to eat, — we will say, 

 after you have it weaned — how are you going to regulate it? 



Mr. Lovejoy : We try to make as near a balanced ration as 

 we can. We feed about 40 per cent of corn meal, about 50 per 

 cent of middlings, and we mix it very thick. 



A Member : Do you let the pigs eat all they want? 



Mr. Lovejoy: Certainly; we always feed them all they eat 

 up clean. 



A Member: Don't they get pretty fat on that? 



Mr. Lovejoy: Yes, they do. 



A Member: I would like to ask Mr. Lovejoy the best time to 

 have two litters. 



Mr. Lovejoy: We do not raise them from all our sows. If 

 we raise two litters, we raise them early in March and about the 

 last to the middle of October. Those that come the latter part of 

 April or May, we do not attempt to raise two litters from. 



Mr. McMillan: I just want to emphasize the importance of 

 grass, not only for pigs but for all kinds of young stock. We 

 raise a good many hogs on our farm. -These pigs can be raised 

 to 100 pounds with but very little corn and feed, by having good 

 pasture, either clover or timothy, or blue grass, and feeding the 

 sows with shorts and tankage. By having this kind of feed, 

 you not only grow them cheaply, but you have another advan- 

 tage ; the pigs have the range ; exercise is good for them ; it is 

 good for the lungs, and this green feed tends to expand and 

 enlarge the digestive organs until you begin to feed them corn 

 and other feed ; their capacity will be greater. I believe that 

 even at four pents a pound, in that way, you will make as much 

 profit on hogs as anything else on earth. 



This suggestion, as I say, is not only good as to pigs, but I 

 find in raising colts, that if you can have grass that is not pas- 



