COST OF RAISING GRAIN — HOGS. 



477 



for sowing all kinds of grain, and the Walter A. Wood's com- 

 bined reaper and mower. 



COST OF RAISING GRAIN. 



My wheat crop in 1879 cost me 69 cents per bushel. 

 * My corn crop in 1879 cost me 15 cents per bushel. 

 My oat crop in 1879 cost me 13 cents per bushel. 



CATTLE. 



The best cattle I have for beef are the Short-Horns. Many 

 of them are fine cows for milk. My milk cows consist mostly 

 of grades and Short-Horns. I find them almost universally 

 better milkers than the native cows. 



HOGS. 



The Berkshire and Poland (3hina hogs are the best for 

 early marketing. Raising hogs is a branch of stock growing 

 which can be done very easily, when well understood. The 

 first thing to do is to have a good dry house for the sows 

 and little pigs while they are sucking, made on the plan of the 

 following or some such diagrana. 



HALL. 



12 8 



u u u u u 



1 — Peed room. 2 — Steaming feed room. 3 — Well room. 



This house should be inclosed with a yard, to prevent the 

 sows traveling off too far while the pigs are young. In breed- 

 ing, to have success with pigs, they should come about the first 

 of April. A short time before sows have their pigs, I feed 



