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hotel refuse, along with dry corn. After ten days or two 

 weeks they were given no corn. He found that even 

 brood sows on this feed farrowed strong litters and 

 suckled them well. If a sow gets too much, the pigs 

 scour in a day or two thereafter. By good judgment and 

 care not to overfeed, and to see that the feed is not too 

 washy, his sows turn off strong litters. He supplements 

 the hotel feed with bran or middlings and corn, as 

 needed. He saves the best for the sows and pigs. 



"The feeder in question is careful to have plenty of 

 trough room, and advises a board or cement floor about 

 the troughs, as the hogs will even eat the earth saturated 

 with the juices of meat. In winter he feeds clover hay, 

 and in very cold weather adds some corn. He advises 

 finishing by feeding both corn and hotel refuse the last 

 four weeks. In winter the swill is fed warm. In sum- 

 mer all slop is kept well covered from flies. He gets 

 three to four barrels of swill a day, turns off 125 fat hogs 

 annually, and buys only one boar each year. He is care- 

 ful to watch for paper, strings, broken glass and crock- 

 ery that might be in the swill. He says his hogs never 

 choke on bones. He finds he does not need to feed salt 

 and ashes or use any lice-killers. The alkali and the 

 grease in the slop keep down vermin." 



SAVILL FOR BROOD SOWS 



Danger to pregnant sows sometimes lurks in swill and 

 kitchen refuse. A. J- Lovejoy says : 'T have known of 

 cases where sows during the breeding season were fed 

 such refuse and not one of them could be got in pig." 



