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goes away back to the time when the swill barrel was put down in 
the ground and everything went into it. There is no animal living 
that will eat wet food Avhen it can get dry. I always feed dry 
in preference to wet." 
Mr. G. W. Ilockett of Manning, Iowa, also spoke on this sub- 
ject : ' ' I agree in certain respects but I also want to say that some 
of these fellows that feed in the old-fashioned way get pretty good 
results. I have not had as much experience as some but I have 
tried all new methods and have gone back to the old-fashioned way 
and I believe that I have so far had about as much growth on my 
hogs as any. I have tried dry feed, but I never could make it 
work very well. The hog will eat slop if he is used to it and if it 
is balanced right he will not be harmed by it. The trouble with 
feeding slop with some people is making it all slop and no feed. 
The hog will not thrive on slop that is all water. If you make it 
thick they will be all right and will grow if you have the right kind 
of things in the feed. They ought to have dry feed that they 
can run to but if you mix the slop right you can get a good growth. " 
Joe Steward here made the following statement: ^'I just want 
to say that Mr. Ashby put up a first class paper." 
Mr. Browning said: "This question has been gone over a good 
many times. There is a whole lot in it and we don't know anything 
about it. The longer I live the less I believe I know about hogs. 
As to feeding slop, I have experimented a good deal and if you 
go to feeding a little pig on concentrated feed you know what will 
happen. He takes it in liquid form and the older he gets the less 
it needs to be diluted. It seems to me that when he gets to the 
feeding period you want just about the same bulk of water as bulk 
of feed. Take ground oats and corn, put in a little oil cake and 
mix it up just so you have to thump the bucket to make it drop 
out. The pig don't like feed unless he has a little salt too. He 
will get outside of a whole lot of this kind of mixture in five or ten 
minutes and then he will be ready for just as much the next meal 
and the result will be that you will make a bigger gain in that way 
than any Avay in the world. If you want to slop him when he is 
little, you don't want it very thick. But the thing to do is to feed 
him on what you see he will do the best possible on. We have 
both sides of the question. So far as feeding slop goes, if you 
don't Avant to over feed a sow, just give her a little milk with 
some water in it. Then after a while leave out the water and put 
in a little shorts." 
