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HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA 



treatment. In the Spring I turn sows, shoats and pigs into a 

 six acre lot of Brazilian artichokes. This lot is connected with 

 my artificial grove by a tunnel. As before stated, this grove 

 is connected with the lot in which the spring is situated by 

 another tunnel, thus giving the hogs uninterrupted communi- 

 cation with the spring of water. I keep the hogs in this lot 

 until the middle of May, when I turn them into a field of ten 

 acres of rye. This with the addition of a very little corn will 

 feed two hundred and fifty to three hundred head of hogs all 

 Summer. By this method my young hogs do not come so fast 

 as to compel me to feed grain heavily, but at the same time I 

 think the hogs are less liable to disease. The first of Septem- 

 ber I begin to increase their feed, and by October I have them 

 on full feed and ready to go into the corn field with my feed- 

 ing steers. Then I separate the brood sows from the herd, 

 put them back in the pasture, and treat as before described, while 

 the remainder run with the feed steers, and are sold from time 

 to time, as they become marketable. I usually wish to have 

 about thrae hogs to one steer ; by having this number they 

 keep the^orn well cleaned up, thus preventing the waste that 

 would attend feeding down corn in the field. 



HOG HOUSE. 



My hog house is ninety-six feet long, and six feet wide. 

 It is boarded up and down with twelve foot lumber, which is 

 sawed in two, so as to give the roof the proper slope ; that is, the 

 shorter side about five and one-half feet high, the longer, six 



