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in a close pen, nine bushels of corn and the slops from the 

 kitchen, and got in return 420 pounds of pork. He thinks 

 the manure saved, applied to corn, would increase the crop 

 at least nine bushels. 



Dr. J. J. Groover, of Brooks county, breeds the Berk- 

 shire, crossed on the common stock, which run on ground 

 peas in winter, green rye in spring, with some corn daily 

 while on rye ; they next go to the field from which oats 

 have been harvested ; then to rye sown for them. He fat- 

 tens on field peas, ground peas, potatoes and corn. He 

 raises annually fifteen pigs to each sow, kills at twelve 

 months old, and gets an average of 150 pounds, which costs 

 him six cents per pound. 



Mr. Reuben Jones, Newton, Baker county, breeds the 

 Berkshire crossed on the common stock, and raises, annu- 

 ally, fifteen pigs to the sow. His hogs have the run of 

 pea fields and ground pea patches during the winter, uncul- 

 tivated fields and gleaning of small grain in summer, and 

 are fattened on field peas, ground peas, potatoes, turnips, 

 and boiled corn. He kills at from eighteen to twenty-four 

 months, averaging 200 pounds, and costing five cents per 

 pouud. His hogs are penned every night, and fed lightly, 

 and turned into the fields during the day. 



Dr. J. S. Lavender, Barnesville, Pike county, breeds the 

 cross of Chester, Essex, and Berkshire, raises an average 

 of ten pigs to the sow, never feeds corn until two weeks 

 before killing. His hogs have clover, barley, rye, oats, 

 plum orchards, harvest fields, peach orchards, sweet 

 potatoes, turnips and collards. For the butcher-pen, he 

 feeds on corn meal, collards, sweet potatoes, turnips, and 

 cotton-seed meal. He kills part at eight months, and part 

 at eighteen months. They average 225 pounds net, and 

 cost six cents per pound. 



Dr. H. H. Gary, LaGrange, Troup county, breeds the 

 common stock, which run in the woods in winter, and on 

 Bermuda grass sod, and in the harvest fields, in summer. 



