308 PRODUCTIVE FARMING 



PROJECTS, EXERCISES, TRIPS, AND SURVEYS 



1. Swine Surveys. Let each member of the class make one or 

 more sets of questions, similar to the following, leaving room for answers, 

 and have them filled in at home and at neighboring places. Have all 

 returned the second day and count up in class the results from most of 

 the points. Keep this report and the papers for further swine study 

 and for aid in making arithmetic problems. 



(1) Name. (2) Size of swine pasture and crops in them. (3) Size 

 of swine lot. (4) Kind of hog houses. (5) No. of pure bred sows. (6) 

 What breed. (7) No. grade sows. (8) No. and name of sire. (9) No. 

 pigs raised per year. (10) Does owner register them? (11) At what 

 ages are they sold? (12) Prices. (13) Age or weight when sold or killed 

 for meat. (14) Is meat cured and smoked? (15) What feeds for sows 

 with pigs. (16) Feeds for fattening. (17) Cost per pound. (18) Treat- 

 ment for lice. (19) For worms. (20) For cholera. (21) Deaths and 

 causes in past year. (22) Kinds of wallows. (23) Provision for mineral 

 matter. (24) Provision for watering. 



2. Students should report in class from time to time any local swine 

 practices by farmers, as new pasture seeding, sizes of new litters, weigh- 

 ing and gains in weight, new houses, making of feed-hoppers, hogging off 

 crops, inoculation, oiling wallows, treatment for lice, new purchases, 

 prices at sales, weights and methods at butchering time. 



3. Judging of swine to aid in selection of animals may be done with 

 animals brought to the school by farmers, or the class may go to neigh- 

 boring farms toward the end of the school day. Or the county agent, 

 a vocational teacher or some good swine raiser may take them to suitable 

 farms, fairs, sales, etc. 



4. Methods and management may be studied in such ways as sug- 

 gested in No. 3. Suitable times for special studies at particular farms 

 may be learned through members of the class (see No. 2). 



5. Inoculation and Other Treatments. Arrange for the county agent 

 or some other qualified person to demonstrate to the class how to inoculate 

 pigs against hog cholera, treat them for worms and lice, mark them for 

 identification in registration, nip off needle teeth of day old pigs. 



6. Registration. Students should practise making applications for 

 registration of pure bred pigs. Blanks for this can be obtained by writing 

 to the secretary of the association for the breed of swine. Ask the county 

 agent for the address. 



7. Advertising. Students in language class may practise writing 

 brief advertisements of pure bred pigs for sale. 



8. Pig projects should be started at home by members of the class. 

 Let several of the plans suggested in this chapter be followed by different 

 members. Practise at school the various steps suggested in the preceding 

 group of problems. 



9. Swine Feeding Projects. Very good pig feeding projects may 

 be conducted by boys and girls during the summer vacation. Select 

 good grade weanling pigs from litters in the region. Have them all 

 barrows if possible and of rather uniform size and type. They should be 

 started on wet mash (see period No. 2 in preceding topic). Give them 

 plenty of good pasture or have it ready for them very soon. Follow 



