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pigs should come early enough that they may be weaned 

 before snow time. 



Fall pigs should not be kept together in large numbers ; 

 eight or ten are enough for one pen, as they are likely 

 to pile up so that the steaming of their bodies will render 

 I hem liable to colds. They should have the nearest sul)- 

 stitute for fresh, green food that the owner can pro- 

 \ide, and be given access to salt and cob charcoal or 

 similar correctives, tonics or appetizers. 



Feeds for winter pigs must necessarily be more expen- 

 sive than for summer pigs; more food is recjuired to 

 produce a pound of pork in winter than in summer, since 

 a greater amount has to be utilized in merely keeping 

 the body warm. If the price of pork remains the same, 

 a dollar's worth of feed stuffs fed to summer-grown 

 hogs will return a greater \n-i)\\t tlian a dollar thus 

 invested for winter-grown hogs. The matter reduces 

 itself to this: to make winter pig-growing" pay, summer 

 conditions as to both cheapness of feed and comfortable 

 surroundings must be approached as nearly as possible. 



I'he foregoing suggestions apply, of course, to the 

 more northern sections of the United States. In the 

 Soutli and milder sections of the Pacific coast region 

 less exacting conditions prevail. 



NEED OF EXERCISE 



It should not be forgotten that a growing pig needs 

 abundant exercise. This will not only stimulate growth, 

 but it will also do much to ward off sickness. Many out- 

 breaks of disease might have been avoided if its victims 



