INDEX 



359 



Curing pork, liquid smoke, 289 

 plain salt, 286 



smoke flavoring powder, 289 

 smoking, 287-289 

 sugar cured hams and bacon, 



286, 287 



trying out lard, 290 

 vessels for, 285 



Dipping, 324, 325 

 Diseases, bronchitis, 334 



chapter on, 327-350 



constipation, 337 



eczema, 341 



foot-and-mouth disease, 346-348 



hog cholera, 327-333 



home treatment, 348 



indigestion, 337 



infectious sore mouth, 339 



inflammation of the udder, 340, 

 341 



mange, 343, 344 



medicine, administration of, 349 



paralysis, 342, 343 



pneumonia, 334, 335 



post mortems, 348 



rheumatism, 341, 342 



rickets, 342 



scours, 338 



swine plague, 333, 334 



thumps, 339, 340 



tuberculosis, 335-337 



worms, 344-346 

 Disinfection, 319, 320 

 Distillers' grains, 178 

 Draughts, 298 

 Drenching, 349 

 Dry cured pork, 287 

 Dryness of piggery, 295, 296 

 importance of, 322 

 Dry vs. wet feed, 214 

 Duroc, 76 



Duroc- Jersey, comparative tests, 41, 

 42 



description, 75 



disqualifications, 78 



distribution, 77 



origin and history, 75, 76 



score card, 78-82 



types, 77 



utility, 78 



Eczema, 341 

 Emmer, 171 

 English bacon hogs, 278 



Essex, description, 110 

 distribution, 111 

 origin and history, 110, 111 

 score card, 112, 113 

 types, 111 

 utility, 111, 112 

 Ether extract or fat, requirement of, 



136, 137 

 Exercise, influence on firmness of 



meat, 134 

 the boar, 220 

 the sow, 228, 229 

 young pigs, 237 



Fall rye, for pasture, 197, 250, 251 

 Farrowing, 232 

 pens for, 303 



portable pens for, 309-317 

 Fat or lard type, 9 



breeds of, 13 



description of, 10-13 



feed required compared with 



bacon type, 44 

 scale of points, 19, 20 

 Fattening, chapter on, 243-261 

 correctives, 245-247 

 cost increases with age, 244, 245 

 money returns for feed, 247, 248 

 quantity of feed, 244 

 regularity, 244 

 winter, 243, 244 

 Feed for maintenance, 140 

 Feeding and management, 

 of boar, 219-225 

 of fattening hogs, 243-261 

 of sow, 226-235 

 of young pigs, 236-242 

 Feeding for health, 322 

 Feeding standard, 135-137 



criticism of, 138, 139 

 how to use, 137, 138 

 Feeding stuffs, composition of, 351- 



355 



Fermenting feed, 214 

 Floors, 302, 303 

 Flour, 173 



Foot-and-mouth disease, 346-348 

 Frosted wheat, compared with barley, 



168, 169 

 fed in combinations, 167 



Garbage, 211, 212 

 Gentry, advice on in-breeding, 27 

 Gestation, period of, 227 

 table of, 269 



