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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



To sum up the matter, I will say that while the Yorkshire is generally 

 looked upon as the ideal bacon hog, yet it is not as such that the breed is 

 adapted to Iowa conditions. With the splendid constitution and large frame 

 I consider that there is furnished a most excellent opportunity to the skillful 

 feeder who desires to make the greatest possible weight in a short time, 

 and unless one is located so that he has access to a bacon market where a 

 premium of twenty-five or fifty cents per hundred is paid, it will certainly 

 pay to carry even the Yorkshire hog to eight or nine or possibly ten months 

 and to feed a heavy corn ration during the last two or three months. How- 

 ever, I would not advise feeding corn exclusively, as I think that a little mill 

 feed, tankage and oilmeal fed in the form of slop can be used with profit, 

 not only with this breed but with all breeds; because under such treatment 

 a fattening hog really seems to get more benefit from the corn consumed. 



First prize improved Yorkshire Junior Yearling Boar, World's Fair, St. Louis. 



