THE YOUNG FARMER 



increase in live weight, allowing five pounds 

 of dry matter for each pound of increase. 

 Some further details as to food requirements 

 will be found in the paragraphs which 

 follow. 



COST OF PRODUCING HOGS 



Pigs possess two characteristics which 

 make them unique among domestic animals. 

 They consume concentrated and easily 

 digested foods only, and they produce noth- 

 ing but meat, fat and bristles. Cattle fur- 

 nish milk and hides; sheep, wool, hides and 

 sometimes milk; fowls furnish eggs and 

 feathers. On account of their limited range 

 of usefulness and because of the high value 

 of much of the food consumed, it would not 

 be possible to rear swine economically were 

 it not for their prolificacy and the fact that 

 they are employed largely as scavengers. 

 Many cattle are fattened without direct 

 profit. The indirect profit comes from the 

 sale of the pigs which have followed the cat- 

 tle. It is customary to mature one hog with 

 little or no additional food while fattening 

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