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live weight, we get $1.42 worth of manure. On the basis of 80 per 

 cent, of pork to the live weight, in the production of every hun- 

 dred weight of pork, we get also $1.78 of value in manure. Thus, 

 in estimating the profit or feeding hogs on corn, we may calculate 

 If cents per pound in addition to the price of the pork for the value 

 of the manure obtained. 



A TABLE SHOWING VALUE OF HOG MANURE FROM A TON OF FOOD. 



The Best Way to Feed the Sow and the Young 

 Pigs The sow while engaged in suckling young should be 

 given a large quantity of rich and diverse kinds or food. The 

 drain upon her system is so great that it is indispensable that this 

 loss be made good by the use of sufficient additional nutritious sus- 

 tenance. Pigs at birth weigh on an average two pounds and a half, 

 and at six weeks old their average weight will be from fifteen to 

 nineteen pounds, dependent upon the breed and the way in which 

 the mother has been taken care of. This enormous increase will 

 illustrate what we mean in speaking of the drain which the suckling 

 of the young pigs makes upon the system of the sow. When this 

 additional food is given, it will be found advantageously supplied by 

 the use of skimmed-milk and corn-meal, and oats and peas ground 

 together. Oil-meal may be substituted for the milk, if the latter 



