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single-board cabins, and these also provide shade during the summer. 

 The food consists chiefly of roots and clover hay (the latter fed whole 

 in racks) with a small quantity of shorts and bran. Sows under a 

 year old require more grain food to provide for growth. The cost 

 per day when dry from November i to April I, amounted to about 

 4 cents per day for mature animals and half a cent more for growing 

 animals that required better feeding. In the early months of the 

 winter, very little grain is fed but towards spring, as farrowing time 



Ideal bacon. 



is approaching, it has been found necessary to increase the amount 

 of meal fed. Sows wintered and fed in this way remain active and 

 healthy and almost invariably yield strong litters which they after- 

 wards nourish well. 



At the Central, the Brandon and the Indian Head Farms, re- 

 peated tests have been made in feeding hogs on wheat that had been 

 frosted. In every case, it was shown that frozen wheat gave excellent 

 results, producing pork at a cost slightly less than 4 cents per pound. 

 The wheat should be finely ground and fed with caution and to very 

 young pigs, in only very limited quantities. 



The value of roots for feeding swine was arrived at by comparing 

 them with clover and alfalfa pasture. The roots consisted of mangels, 

 sugar beets and carrots and were pastured by the pigs. In another 

 test, the roots were given to the pigs in pens. Fed in pens on roots 

 the cost per 100 Ibs. of gain was $4.23. When meal was added 

 to the roots in the pens, the cost was $3 . 09 per 100 Ibs., and when meal 

 was fed to pigs on root pasture the cost was $3.82 per 100 Ibs. On 

 alfalfa pasture the cost of gains was $3 . 67 and on Red Clover pasture, 

 S3 -53 per 100 Ibs. of gain. 



The cheapest gains were therefore made when feeding roots 

 and meal in close quarters. Growing pigs to be kept for breeding 



