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with skim-milk, buttermilk, and whey constitute the chief 

 feeds. Large feeding plants which depend chiefly on 

 garbage collected from the large cities are an important 

 recent development in the East. Few hogs are raised in 

 the arid plains region of the West because the simple 

 digestive apparatus of the pig is not adapted to the con- 

 sumption of bulky feeds alone. Not enough hogs are 

 produced here to supply the demand for pork products. 

 The production in the South has not yet reached a point 

 where home needs are supplied ; but with the necessity 

 of adopting a more diversified system of management to 

 maintain production, the cotton farmer promises to use 

 his great natural advantages to increase the number of 

 hogs. 



Pork production is an essential part of practically every 

 type of farming in America. Even in districts which are 

 exclusively grain-growing, the hog performs the important 

 function of saving the wastes of the grain fields and in 

 utilizing the offal from the kitchen and milk-room, as well 

 as in supplying the home demand for fresh and cured pork 

 products. The average general farm is never without 

 some hogs for the same reasons. Dairy-farming cannot 

 be conducted along the most efficient and profitable lines 

 without a sufficient number of hogs to utilize the skim- 

 milk, buttermilk, or whey which may be available for 

 feeding, and the undigested grain in the dropping of the 

 cows. It is doubtful whether any system of farming can 

 as easily satisfy all the tenets of good farm management 

 as a properly conducted dairy business which depends 

 on its output of cream or butter and pork for its principal 

 revenue. 



Hogs are essential to successful beef-production. The 

 pork produced from the undigested grain from cattle in 



