474 THE POTATQ 



Lincolnshire Curly-Coated Pig Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation, but I get up no pigs for showing and make 

 no fancy prices. My pig business is principally 

 feeding. The last two years, when prices have 

 been good, I have sent away on an average of 

 twenty fat pigs, weighing about twenty stone (280 

 pounds) each, live weight, every six weeks. 



"I feed all my waste potatoes to the pigs. I 

 have a boiler which holds about 350 pounds of 

 potatoes, and when we have plenty of waste po- 

 tatoes, or our ordinary potatoes are making any- 

 thing under 40 shillings per ton, we cook on an 

 average of nine hundredweight per day. In my 

 valuation I put all waste potatoes down at 15 

 shillings ($3.60) per ton, but I do not sell any under 

 20 shillings ($4.80) per ton. 



"As to meal, etc., for feeding pigs: When po- 

 tatoes are plentiful, we cook liberal quantities and 

 mix in a large cemented brick receptacle that will 

 hold about 200 gallons. Say we shall throw into 

 this about six hundredweight of potatoes and mix 

 up with about four hundredweight of meal, one 

 half barley meal and the other half wheat shorts. 

 If the boiler is not freely employed cooking po- 

 tatoes we fill up the time by cooking maize pre- 

 viously ground. This makes good food to mix in, 

 and we consider cooked maize very good food for 

 pigs. Also, if beans, peas, and wheat happen to 

 be as cheap, or nearly as cheap, as barley, we grind 

 them up pretty freely and mix with the barley 

 meal. Barley meal, sold as barley meal, is well 

 known to be often by no means ground from bar- 

 ley alone. If lentils or Indian grain are reason- 

 able in price, all in moderation make excellent 

 food for pigs, but sows that have just farrowed 

 and which are suckling their pigs should have very 



