LARGE VS. SMALL BREEDS AND CROSSES. 27 



"After the breeding, come the feeding and attention. 

 Milk and fat must go in at the mouth before it makes its 

 appearance in the animal. I do not believe those, who say 

 their pigs get fat on nothing. I know from experience 

 that one pig would live where another would starve, and 

 what it would take to make one large-bred pig fat, would 

 make several smaller-bred ones 'up.' A great help to 

 profitable pig-keeping is warmth, and confinement, and 

 regularity in feeding ; as "by also keeping the skin of the 

 animal clean by washing and brushing occasionally. If 

 two animals of the same litter be put into two different 

 sties, and have the same quantity of food each, the one 

 that is kept warm and with the skin clean will gain more 

 weight than the other. I found that out one winter, when 

 Jack Frost was astir, before I put up a new pig-shed. My 

 man was feeding a lot of pigs alike, tfnly some were in 

 common sties and others in a warm shed. The difference 

 was very striking : those kept warm fed nearly half as fast 

 again as the others. This induced me to build a long 

 covered shed sixty feet long and eighteen feet wide, that 

 would hold seventy porkers or fifty bacon pigs, where, 

 when the thermometer has been below freezing point out- 

 side, it has inside been very warm and comfortable. The 

 pigs have their food warm in winter, and are never starv- 

 ed by the cold ; they are bedded with clean straw every 

 otlier day, and the shed is kept rather dark. The manure 

 made is of first quality and fit to use for turnips. 



" Perhaps some of the readers of this paper would like 

 to know something about the dietary of my pigs. I have 

 not included sugar in my list of feeding ingredients. I 

 have never gone higher than new milk, which they always 

 take without sweetening. In the first place, I must say 

 that I exhibit at a few of the leading agricultural meet- 

 ings, and am generally, if not at the top of the ladder, 

 not many spokes off. I keep my breeding stock different 

 to my show stock, as I do not like breeding animals to be 



