A TYPICAL CHINESE LARD HOG 
Chinese hogs vary a great deal in type according to the part of the country from which they 
come. 
a year old is from 200 to 250 pounds. (Fig. 
price of good barrows and spayed gilts. 
Unspayed gilts also sell at a cut price. 
The hogs in the plant described above 
are kept in a brick building across the 
street from the brewery. They are all 
kept in one room, about 30 feet wide 
and 80 feet long. Pens are arranged 
along the sides of the room with an 
alley about 6 feet wide in the center. 
These pens are 12 feet square, and 
each contains from ten to fourteen 
hogs. A pen of hogs usually represents 
one litter. The floor of the entire room 
is paved with brick tile, sloping from 
the pens to the alley-way, on either side 
of which is a gutter. The floor 
kept very clean, being washed twice a 
day, and the pigs themselves get washed 
in the process of washing out the pens. 
The solid manure is cleaned from the 
pens before each washing and stored in 
is 
The straight tail is one of their peculiar characteristics. 
The usual weight when 
14.) 
a brick and concrete tank at the end of 
the room where it remains until it is re- 
moved by buyers. 
THE FEED OF VILLAGE PIGS 
Three times a day the village sow and 
pigs are fed a mixture of a cheap grade 
of rice chop and rice bran, and some- 
times wheat bran, about the proportion 
of half and half. Wheat bran is con- 
sidered a better feed than rice bran, 
but it is usually higher in price. In 
the vicinity of breweries, brewer's grain, 
a by-product of the rice wine industry, 
forms a part of the ration. Vegetables 
and green cut grasses are fed. The rice 
is always fed cooked. Other kinds of 
feed are uncooked. In regions where 
corn is as available and cheap as rice, 
it furnishes the main fattening part of 
the ration. At night the hogs are kept 
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