ILLUSTRATIONS xiii 



64. The Self-feeder is Used by Many Farmers in the Corn Belt States 



for Feeding Corn or Grain Mixtures to Fattening Steers 268 



65. A Mississippi-raised "Baby Beef ;> Calf 269 



66. A Grand Champion Shorthorn Bull 270 



67. Fattening Steers in California 272 



68. Draft Horses that Give a Good Account of Themselves in the 



Show Ring, as Breeding Animals and for Doing Heavy Work . 278 



69. Horses on the Western Range 289 



70. A Team of Farm Work Mules 291 



71. A Group cf Young Berkshire Pigs 295 



72. The Amount of Feed Consumed Per 100 Pounds of Gain for 



Fattening Pigs Increases with Their Live Weights 296 



73. Well-fed, Busy Youngsters that will Grow into Good Porkers 297 



74. The "Hog Motor," a Device for Making Pigs Grind the Corn They 



Eat 298 



75. Diagram Showing the Acreage of Corn and Number of Swine and 



Cattle Listed in the Twelve Leading Corn-growing States in 



the Union, According to the Census of 1910 299 



76 and 77. Pigs Fed for "Fat and Lean" 301 



78. Meal Time for the Swine Herd 302 



79. Making Pork on Rape and Oats 303 



80. Making Pork on Blue Grass 304 



81. A Thrifty Bunch of Sows and Pigs Crowding around the Feed 



Troughs 307 



82. A Cement Feeding Floor Provided with Sanitary Substantial 



Troughs is an Essential to a Well-equipped Piggery 309 



83. Portable Hog-houses with Low, Flat Roofs 310 



84. Interior Arrangement of Hog-houses at Illinois Station 311 



85. The Self-feeder Saves Labor in Feeding Pigs and other Farm 



Animals 313 



86. A Convenient Self-feeder for Supplying Charcoal and Mineral 



Matter to Pigs on Pasture 315 



87. Pure-bred Flock of Mutton Sheep at the Morgan Horse Farm 319 



88. A Fine Bunch of Yearling Rams 320 



89. A Good Type of Mutton Sheep 320 



90. Grade Dorset Lambs from Merino Ewes Make Excellent Hot- 



house Lambs 326 



91. Range Sheep in Feed Yards at Caldwell, Nevada 328 



92. A Flock of Sheep on a Western Range 328 



93. Lamb-feeding Corrals in Nevada 329 



94. Winter Scene of Range Sheep in the Nevada Mountains 330 



95. A Flock of Angora Goats in the California Foothills 332 



96. An Imported Swiss Milch Goat 333 



