974 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE 8TOCK DOCTOR. 



So, in feeding cattle, swine should glean what is left. One or two 

 hogs should follow each steer or cow, according to how much grain is fed 

 to the hogs in addition. Our plan always was, to allow two hogs to each 

 steer, and then at night to give the hogs what extra corn they would eat. 



rX. Value of Mast for Hogs. 



This will depend upon the range and the number of nut^producing trees. 

 When a suitable range is to be had it should always be used, especially for 

 breeding hogs, and young swine. For fattening, it will only be available 

 in extensive forest districts, and for half-wild swine. In any event, hogs 

 fed on mast should be allowed full feeds of grain for at least three weeks 

 before slaughtering. 



X. Hog Feeding in the South. 



Swine-feeding can be prohtably conducted on a large scale at the South, 

 only in the more temperate regions where corn may be economically 

 grown. There is, however, still so much forest area there, that it should 

 be made use of to the fullest extent for hog pasture, on account of the 

 natural roots, the wild fruit and the mast. The supplementary food 

 must depend, as it does everywhere else, on the cost. If it has to be 

 bought, corn and mill feed will be found the cheapest. Every planter 

 should raise and cure enough hogs to furnish pork, bacon ard hams 

 for his home use. I. will be found, in nearly every instance, cheaper than 

 to buy the bacon and pork already prepared. 



XI. Feeding in Close Pens. 



In all cases, where few pigs are kept, or where only the family supplies 

 of pork are fattened — especially when the fattening pigs are bought in the 

 spring — it is cheapest to feed in close pens. These should always be in 

 two apartments, one closed in for sleeping, and the other an open plat- 

 form for feeding. A pen twelve by sixteen Avill accommodate six large 

 hogs ; and this will allow the sleeping room to be 8 by 12, and the feed 

 room the same size. In every case where hogs are to be kept and fattened 

 in cold weather, warm sleeping places must be provided ; and evei where 

 large numbers of hogs were kept to be fed fully fat, we have found the 

 plan of close pens to be most economical in the end. 

 XII. Hog Bams. 



When many hogs are kept, a permanent structure should be built for 

 fattening and wintering them. The simplest form of a hog barn is alow 

 buildino", with ranges of pens on each side of a four-foot passage way, 

 the sides being divided into pens eight feet square. This would give 

 twenty feet for the width of the building. In the middle, a twenty-foot 

 room should be left for the boiler, and for the storage of feed. The 



