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work horses, and generally raise from fifty to one hundred and 

 twenty-five hogs. I send off the young cattle of the herd every 

 Summer. 1 have a pasture for my cows, one for the calves, 

 and one for the hogs. Each pasture has running water, and 

 the pastures are mostly in blue grass ; but some are in timothy 

 and white clover. JNIy grass land that I cut for hay is red 

 clover and timothy, mixed. 



HOGS. 



I raise but little small grain. My plowed land is mostly 

 planted to corn, of which I have often to buy to keep my hogs 

 till the grass has a good start. I feed but little corn after grass 

 comes, until I commence feeding in the Fall. I do not believe 

 in letting the hogs run until the grass is up nicely in the Spring. 

 I have a field of red Brazilian artichokes on which I feed my 

 hogs in the Fall and Spring, with excellent results. I plant a 

 few acres of sweet corn eveiy year for the liogs. I commence 

 to cut and feed stalks and corn as soon as the latter gets into 

 the milk. It gives the hogs a good start, and they are in fine 

 condition to fatten with the other corn when it is hard and gets 

 dry enough to shell. 



SELF-FEEDER. 



I then use a self-feeder for the hogs. This feeder is a long 

 box tliat will hold three or four loads of corn, and it has an 

 opening its Avliole length at the bottom. Tlie opening is so 

 large that the hogs can work out the ears of corn, and can feed 

 wlienever they feel inclined. I have the box on a floor to pre- 

 vent the hogs from scattering the corn in the mud, when the 

 ground is muddy, I think it poor farming to feed hogs in the 

 dirt. After the corn gets dry enough I shell all my corn and 

 grind it with my feed mill. This mill stands in one corner of 

 the corn crib. 



HOG PENS. 



The hog pens are joined to the corn crib. The feed alley 

 passes through one of the cribs into the driveway between the 

 cribs. I use movable panels for the partitions to the breeding 

 pen, and remove them when the p^n is not in use. 



