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management may be made very profitable. This is 

 especially the case where pigs are kept in small num- 

 bers. When the proportion of them to other stock is 

 rightly balanced, so as to make them a convenient 

 appendage to the barnyard, to the kitchen, and to 

 the dairy, the cost of maintaining them is so trifling 

 as scarcely to be felt. 



When they are increased beyond this proportion, 

 though the cost of keeping the additional number is 

 somewhat greater, yet with good management the 

 comparative expense may be made very moderate. 

 The incidental and economical sources of food for 

 swine on a well-managed farm are so many and various 

 that very little positive expense is incurred, except for 

 the grain that is superadded to the other feed in the 

 process of fattening. 



But here is where many farmers make a serious 

 mistake. They postpone the use of grain until a late 

 period, and then commence feeding it in excessive 

 quantities, that are often suddenly increased with but 

 little regularity and little or no system. 



With such treatment, neither corn nor any other 

 grain or feed can exert its proper and legitimate effect. 

 Experience has proved that the most certain mode of 

 feeding hogs, with profit, is to commence the use of 

 grain or meal with the young pig. It matters not 

 how young the pig maybe, provided the meal is given 

 with due care and judgment, in small quantities, well 

 scalded or cooked, and fed in connection with milk 

 and other waste from the dairy and kitchen. 



If this practice is continued with a very gradual 



