WATER, SLOP AND SWILL 4^1 



the feeding of garbage to hogs furnishes one of the most 

 fa\orable channels for the introduction of hog cholera 

 and swine plague bacteria. As a rule, wherever we find 

 hogs in clean, well-ventilated pens and fed upon whole- 

 some food, we find thrift and health, and, conversely, 

 where these animals are surrounded with disgusting 

 filth and fed upon decomposing swill or other unwhole- 

 -sonie food, we expect to, and often do, find disease." 



SUCCESS WITH HOTEL REFUSE 



There are, nevertheless, authorities who believe that 

 hotel and restaurant refuse may ht so carefully sorted as 

 to be valuable. This is the opinion of L. N. Bonham, 

 who says : 



"The table and kitchen waste of hotels and restau- 

 rants contains so much valuable feed that may become a 

 real bonanza to one who has the skill to handle it suc- 

 cessfully, that we have taken some pains to look up the 

 experience of several feeders. In each case their first 

 efforts were discouraging. One man has been in the busi- 

 ness five years; he began by hauling the refuse from 

 hotels and restaurants in a water-tight tank. This he 

 abandoned for covered barrels, that he might better as- 

 sort the feed. He also paid the cooks and dish-washers 

 to induce them to throw the dishwater, broken glass, 

 empty cans, lye and the like into one barrel and the table 

 scraps and kitchen trimmings into another barrel. He 

 carefully examined all, and used only that which he 

 deemed suitable, and the rest was thrown into a sewer. 

 He was exceedingly careful in the beginning to feed 

 newly purchased animals only a small quantity of the 



