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sow and pursue the Medlock policy of adequate 

 feeding. During the gestative period, in addition 

 to plenty of good feed, the sow gets a daily tonic: 

 a tablespoonful of a 1/128 solution of potassium 

 iodide. This grows hair on the young, so that 

 when they arrive they are well armored against 

 the weather. 



If you, by chance, should contemplate growing 

 your own pork, let me conclude these notes thereon 

 with a caution: keep hands especially little chil- 

 dren's hands away; a pig has powerful jaws and 

 the hardest teeth in the animal kingdom. It is not 

 a vicious animal, only heedless. And a brood sow 

 is querulous and flighty. Let her be tended by the 

 same person all the time; if she needs help at far- 

 rowingpigs frequently have great pain and diffi- 

 culty at birth let that person be the one to nurse 

 her. For a week or so after farrowing let no one go 

 near her pen ''just to look" at the young. After a 

 sow has had six or eight litters she may be bred 

 twice a year it is time to sell her to the pork 

 butcher and start breeding from a young animal. 



