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tured down too close in the fall, you can let the colts run out 

 during the winter, with simply an open shed to run under, and 

 they go through the winter with very little grain feed. We raise 

 our colts in that way on the farm. We have a bunch of colts 

 now, yearling stallions that are still on blue grass pasture, and 

 in that way we raise them until practically fit for the market- 

 We have yearling colts in the pasture now that never had a 

 halter on, that will weigh from fourteen hundred to fifteen hun- 

 dred pounds. 



Mr. Ames : I would like to ask Mr. Lovejoy to be a little 

 more definite in regard to his feed that he feeds a sow. He says^ 

 a sow can produce a pig until it weighs one hundred pounds, 

 three months old, with very little feed. We do not understand 

 that. Does the sow starve while she is raising them? 



Mr. Lovejoy : I said very little feed to the pigs. 



Mr. Mills : We would like to know what that amounts to? 



Mr. Lovejoy: We estimate that our herd of brood sows cost 

 us twelve dollars a year. 



A Member: You have them on good pasture? 



Mr. Lovejoy: Certainly. I do not call four dollars a very 

 expensive feed for a sow with eight or nine pigs. 



A Member: I would like to ask Mr. Lovejoy where he gets 

 his pay for the rest of that twelve dollars; he charges four dol- 

 lars for the litter of pigs? 



Mr. Lovejoy : I get it when I sell the pigs. 



A Member: Don't, you have to charge them with twelve 

 dollars? 



Mr. Lovejoy: No, sir; I charge the entire herd up with the 

 entire amount of feed for the year, care and everything else, 

 and credit it with the sales. There is no litter of pigs but what 

 will bring a good many times twelve dollars. 



The President: Before we adjourn I will call- attention to 

 the afternoon program. Mr. F. A. Delano and Mr. H. C. Nutt 

 will talk on "Transportation — Its relation to the Iowa Farmer;'* 

 Prof. P. G. Holden, on "How to Increase the Average Yield 

 of Corn Five Bushels per Acre."' Tomorrow morning L. H. 

 Kerrick of Bloomington, Illinois, will address you on "Cattle 

 Feeding;" and George H. Wells, on "Commercial Corn Grad- 



