44 ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 



Fig. 27. Good feeders. 



weather just as people do. Pigs do well on pasture. 

 We have learned that pigs fed on corn alone on 

 blue grass pasture gain weight as rapidly as if 

 they were fed a carefully balanced ration in a dry 

 lot. But clover or alfalfa is better than blue grass 

 or timothy pasture. (Fig. 24.) Corn fed on clover 

 pasture is better than the more costly feed of corn 

 and shorts in parts of two to one in a dry lot. 



Coarse, bulky foods do not suit hogs well.' Wheat 

 bran, corn-and-cob meal and oat feed are too bulky 

 to give the best results. It has been proven that 

 com soaked from one feeding time to the . next is 

 more easily digested. 



Rooting. Hogs relish herbs, roots, grubs, and 

 mineral elements and they like to root for them 

 in the soil. Eooting is good exercise for hogs, 

 but it destroys grass and forage crops and the 

 habit once acquired is difficult to eradicate. Hogs 

 will do less rooting if fed wood ashes, charcoal, 

 grit, and salt; but even then they are likely to root 

 up the soil in cool, shady places. Often it is neces- 



