prices for pork, the hogs fed at the Central Farm have yielded a 

 substantial profit. The methods that have brought this about 

 have been learned from experiments, the particulars regarding which 

 are at all times available to persons who apply for them. In view 

 of the difficulty of many in making a profit from feeding pigs, the 

 information gained and given out in bulletins and the Annual Reports 

 of the Farms is of great value to the country. 



Only pure-bred swine are kept and many are sold at about 

 two months old at from $6 to $10 per head for breeding purposes, 



Winter health resort at the Central Farm. 



but against the extra revenue these bring, there must be placed a 

 large amount of experimental work that cannot yield much, if any, 

 immediate profit. 



Very valuable lessons have been learned in regard to maintaining 

 the breeding stock in a high condition of vigor. A satisfactory method 

 of accomplishing this has been worked out at the Experimental 

 Farm, and more than that, it is done at the minimum of expense. 

 Not only has expensive housing been found unnecessary for the 

 breeding stock of both sexes, but expensive feeding is not only 

 unnecessary but positively harmful. 



The breeding stock live out-of-doors practically the whole 

 year round, and feed upon such cheap foods as pasture, roots, soiling 

 crops and clover hay with very little grain food. Of course, when 

 the sows are suckling litters, a richer diet must be given for the 

 benefit of the family, but at other seasons, the food of the sows is 

 of a cheap character. 



The only protection given the sows during the winter (and the 

 temperature at Ottawa often reaches 15 deg. below zero) is small, 



