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would make just about as good pork as anything you can 

 feed. 



Mr. Porter. You must use judgment. You cannot be- 

 gin with a large amount of Indian meal ; you must work into 

 it gradually. 



Mr. BiGELOW. Do you warm your milk at the fire or with 

 hot water ? 



Mr. Burnett. I should warm it by fire. I would not 

 add water to it. Of course, you gentlemen do not know the 

 fact, but my farm is really a creamery and pork-packing 

 establishment on a very small scale ; and 365 days in the 

 year I have steam up, very seldom less than sixty pounds. 

 I have two or three steam jets which are handy for the men 

 who look after my calves. In my piggery I have a small 

 portable steamer, which works under a pressure of three or 

 four pounds, and I cook all my feed for the pigs with direct 

 steam. I have found that the most economical, the simplest 

 and the quickest way to heat my milk and cook my food. 

 If I had Holstein milk I should not want to dilute it with 

 hot water ; Jersey milk I should. [Laughter.] 



Mr. Porter. We don't have Holstein, we have Jersey 

 milk. 



Mr. Williams. The experience of Mr. Burnett has been 

 much longer and wider than mine. Although I am older in 

 years, yet he is older in this pork business, and for me to 

 attempt to add anything to this very interesting and instruct- 

 ive paper would be very much like a man in ordinary finan- 

 cial circumstances endorsing the paper of a Vanderbilt or a 

 Rothschild. Nevertheless, I do fully endorse every point 

 which Mr. Burnett made ; but as I look at the clock and re- 

 member that the hogs we have been talking about have not 

 been fed for a long time, I think I had better not stand 

 between them and the corn which they ought to have directly 

 on my reaching home. 



Mr. Ware. Mr. Hartshorn alluded to some of his pigs 

 beino; unable to use their hind lefli;s. I have had the same 

 experience, and I learned by observation that the disease was 

 brought on by keeping the pigs confined in rather close 

 pens. They were kept clean, but their pens were so situated 

 that they did not get a sufficient amount of light and air for 



