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as indispensable to the health and growth of the hog. Clean, 

 pure water is also an important health measure. Young corn 

 cut up about the time the ears are formuig, and later, is an 

 excellent food for making bone and muscle, and to give 

 health. Any or all of the different kinds of grain mixed and 

 ground or soaked in water a day or two, produce good results. 



FEED THE PIG 



and the growing hog sparingly of corn, as it alone is too 

 strong and heating, liable to cause disease. In the more ad- 

 vanced stage of his life, in the fattening process, corn or corn 

 meal is the best food he can have, and much the better if it be 

 well cooked. A good hog-house, warm, dry, clean and well 

 ventilated, with sufficient capacity to accommodate the herd 

 without crowding is absolutely necessary to success. I raise 

 a hundred pigs, and fatten from sixty to eight}' hogs yearly, 

 and while millions of dollars are lost all over this countr}^ by 

 hog' disease, my nearest neighbors being large sufferers, I never 

 had a case of it on ray farm. 



V The hog will be filthy if you force him into it, and disease 

 will ensue; but he will be clean, thrifty and liealthy if you 

 make him so. 



DAIRY AND MANAGEMENT. 



I keep a small dair^^ from twelve to eighteen cows, sta- 

 bling them in the stone basement of a large baru, warm in 

 Winter and cool in Summer. I make butter which sells for 

 the highest market price. My dairy-room, or creamery, is 10x20 

 feet, and is located in the north-west corner of my house, Avell 

 built, and remote from all i-nfections. I have a water tank in 

 the north end, twenty-two inches deep, through which a current 

 of cold water is continually passing. My milk is immediately 

 set into this tank, in cans eight inches in diameter and twenty- 

 two inches deep. I cliurn with dog power, and do the dairy 

 work myself. I have an excellent oelhir for storage purposes. 

 I raise my calves on skimmed milk, and meal from two parts 

 of oats and one of corn. I fatten a car-load of steers about 

 every other year. My aim is always to raise horses enough 



