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of them. As has been indicated, some attain a large measure of success 

 without formal instruction along these lines, and yet there can 

 be no question but what their success would be greater and more readily 

 attained with such instruction. Ideas and methods have radically changed 

 in the last few years as to the necessity for being posted in them, and it is 

 probable that there will be still greater and still more pronounced reasons 

 for the necessity of such knowledge for the conduct of the breeding in the 

 future. 



But underlying all these is the more practical question of feed and 

 care. Feeders are born, not made, and if a person is not satisfied that he is 

 a success as a feeder and as a caretaker he had better try something else. 

 Visit a model farm and note how the litters are divided and cared for sepa- 

 rately and watch with what regularity the feed is given. Careful attention 

 to these matters is absolutely necessary where hogs are raised in large 

 numbers. A few on a farm can be cared for with some degree of success 

 without so much attention to these details,, but where a farm is given over 

 almost exclusively to hogs and that is made the main product of the farm 

 the success or failure of the venture depends more on the manner of their 

 care and methods of feeding than on any other feature of the business. 



Swine breeding as a profession will become more and more of an exact 

 science and many of the methods of feeding and breeding which have here- 

 tofore yilded fairly good results must soon be discarded for better ones. 

 There seems to be some difference of opinion as to what the great Ameri- 

 can hog is. Some would have us believe that he is of a bacon type. But 

 1 am convinced that the bacon type of hogs, for this section, is a long 

 ways in the future. It is remarkable to how near the same standard all 

 the breeds of hogs are working today. It would seem hardly probable that 

 such a practically unanimous opinion as is evidenced by the results sought 

 to be secured could be entirely wrong. Our Canadian brethren are con- 

 vinced that we are chasing after false gods and could make a great deal 

 more money if we were careful to produce a little different type of hog and 

 market it at 200 pounds weight. They point to the fact that they get over 

 $1 per hundredweight more for hogs than we do, making allowance for the 

 difference in freight rates, but I think the much talked of bacon demand 

 would fade into insignificance if it was supplied at the rate of 200,000 hogs 

 per week of this type going into the Chicago market. So I am convinced 

 that our type and our methods as recognized by the most up-to-date 

 breeders are the proper ones for the country in which we live and that a 

 thorough study and improvement of them will result in the most profit and 

 best advancement of swine growing as a profession. 



JUDGING BY SCORE CARD— ITS BENEFITS. 



W. J. Kennedy, Ames, Iowa. 

 I am pleased to have this opportunity to appear before the Iowa swine 

 breeders on this occasion. I am glad to have this privilege of forming your 

 acquaintance and learning your methods of breeding, feeding, etc. We can 



