TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Choice of Individuals 425 



Boars 426, 433 



Sows 431, 434 



Mating 432 



Castrating 433 



Spaying 433 



Farrowing 436 



Two Litters Yearly 439 



Weaning the Pigs 439 



Advice to Beginners 441 



Gestation of Swine 443 



Feeds and Feeding 442 



Economy 442 



Corn Alone 443 



Cost of Gain ,445 



Corn for Breeders 445 



Corn Ground 446 



Corn, Cooked, Etc 446 



Corn, Wet and Dry 449 



Corn, Hogging Down 449 



Supplements for Corn 450 



Wheat 451 



Middlings 452 



Bran 453 



Barley 453 



Shorts 453 



Oats 453 



Rice 453 



Millet 454 



Beans 454 



Cotton-Seed Meal 455 



Linseed Oilmeal 457 



Soy Bean Meal 457 



Distillery Grains 458 



Beef Meal 458 



Tankage 459 



Milk 460 



Pastures and Forage 463 



Permanent Pastures 463 



Summer Pasture 463 



Alfalfa 467 



Cow Peas 470 



Soy Beans 471 



Canada Field Peas 472 



Peanuts 472 



Sorghum 473 



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Oats 473 



Winter Pasture 473 



Rape 474 



Chufas 474 



Grain with Grass 475 



Roots 476 



Sugar Beets 477 



Potatoes 477 



Silage 478 



Pumpkins 478 



Molasses 478 



Hotel Slop 479 



Climate 479 



Feed for Boars 481 



Feed for Sows 482 



Feed for Pigs 488 



Fattening for Market 491 



Weight of Pigs 492 



Finishing 493 



Short or Long Period 494 



Stock Foods 495 



Mineral Mixtures 495 



Salt 496 



Housing Pigs 497 



Portable Houses 498 



Farrowing Pens 503 



Floors 505 



Racks 505 



Troughs 505 



Dipping Vats 506 



Fences 507 



Exercise 510 



Ventilation 510 



Whitewashing 511 



Sanitation 511 



Market Pork 512 



Bacon Types 512 



Lard Types 512 



Pork Classified 513 



Dressed Hogs 513 



Grading Dressed Hogs 513 



Pork Cuts 514 



Lard 516 



Curing Pork 517 



Hams 517 



Sausage 517 



Part V. 



POULTRY 



The Breeds 518 



Starting with 518 



Classes 521 



General Purpose Breeds 522 



Plymouth Rocks 522 



Wyandottes 523 



Javas 523 



Dominiques 524 



Rhode Island Reds 524 



Buckeyes 524 



Orpingtons 525 



Houdans . . 525 



KEEPING. 



Meat Breeds 526 



Brahmas 526 



Cochins 527 



Langshans 527 



Dorkings 528 



Cornish 529 



White Indian 529 



Egg Breeds 529 



Leghorns 529 



Minorcas 532 



Black Spanish 533 



Andalusians 533 



