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ciency of the food, because more food is required. We find 

 that it is not good economy in our section to raise pigs for 

 the market to an exceptionally high weight. As I said 

 before, there is nothing to be made on a pig weighing much 

 more than from one hundred and seventy-five to one hun- 

 dred and eighty pounds with our ordinary market prices. 



Finally, it pays well to keep an animal well protected 

 from the injclernency of the season ; and it is better 

 economy, as far as the effect of a given amount of food 

 is concerned, to feed during the moderate season with 

 good protection, than to feed during the winter season 

 with very insufficient protection. It requires more food 

 to produce the same amount of live weight in the winter 

 season than in the less severe season, when fair weather 

 favors the animal. It requires more food in the winter 

 season to make up for the inclemency of the weather and 

 the coldness of the atmosphere surrounding them ; and it 

 does not pay in the same degree, under identically the 

 same circumstances, to feed during the winter season as 

 well as during the earlier spring and later fall season, 

 unless you have exceptionally good provisions for keeping 

 your stock warm. 



The Chairman. I would like to hear a few words from 

 Mr. Heustis of Belmont, whose father, who has just passed 

 away, was one of the early breeders of Yorkshire swine in 

 this country. 



Mr. Heustis. I agree with the lecturer in almost 

 everything he said, except, as Mr. Rawson says, as to 

 his way of feeding. We have to feed with swill chiefly, 

 using some milk. I think there is hardly any profit in 

 a pig after it gets up to two hundred and twenty-five 

 pounds. 



Mr. Louis. May I ask a question of the chairman? He 

 and the gentleman who last spoke take exceptions to my feed- 

 ing method, or not really to the method, but to the necessity 

 that causes it. What constitutes your swill feeding? 



Mr. Rawson. The swill collected by the city and sold 

 to us. 



Mr. Louis. Do you add meal or any solid substance to 

 the swill, or feed it just as you receive it? 



Mr. Rawson. Feed it just as we receive it. 



