WATER, SLOP ANl) SWILL 4I I 



XUMHER OF 

 SOURCE. GERMS PER CU. CM. 



Tile drains 8,000 



Six cisterns without tilters. . . . 5,000 to 91,000 



Four cisterns with lihers 580 to 3,000 



Dug well receiving- surface 



drainage 420,000 



Dug well 14 feet deep in corner 



of unprotected barn lot 398.000 



Eight tubular wells 60 to 150 



feet deep 4 to 16 



PONDS AND WALLOWS 



Where it is found desirable to use water from a sur- 

 face source, the best plan is to construct a pond which 

 will afford a minimum of danger, and to fence it so that 

 the stock cannot get at it directly. The water may be 

 supplied in a trough, through a pipe in the dam. 



Stockmen differ widely as to the advisability of hog 

 wallows, some of the most successful breeders heartilv 

 favoring them, while by others they are vehemently 

 opposed. Some maintain that a wallow is a benefit and 

 almost as necessary as the feed trough, and others would 

 not permit one on their farms. W. H. Haskell, warden 

 of the Kansas State Penitentiary, says that 25 years' 

 experience in raising hogs in large and small herds has 

 convinced him that the first step to take in arrang- 

 ing a hog lot or pasture, is to fence out any running 

 or pond water so securely that the hogs cannot get 

 to it. A herd of 600 hogs is maintained at the Kan- 

 sas Penitentiary, and Mr. Haskell says that prior to 



