THE RAZORBACK ‘129 
in ordinary times. During this time he has 
eaten, of things which might possibly have been 
sold, perhaps five dollars’ worth. At 250 days, 
with a gain of one pound a day, he is worth, one 
year with another, $12.50. This is putting it 
too low for my market, but it gives a profit of 
not less than $6 a head after paying freight and 
commissions. It is, then, only a question of how 
many to keep and how to keep them. To answer 
the first half of this question I would say, Keep 
just as many as you can keep well. It never 
pays to keep stock on half rations of food or 
care, and pigs are not exceptions. In answering 
the other half of the question, how to keep them, 
I shall have to go into details of the first build- 
ing of a piggery at Four Oaks. 
As in the case of the hens, I determined to 
start clean. Hogs had been kept on the farm 
for years, and, so far as I could learn, there had 
been no epizodtic disease. The swine had had 
free range most of the time, and the specimens 
which I bought were healthy and as well grown 
as could be expected. They were not what I 
wanted, either in breed or in development, so 
they had been disposed of, all but two. These 
I now consigned to the tender care of the butcher, 
and ordered the sty in which they had been kept 
to be burned. 
I had planned to devote lot No. 2 to a pig- 
gery. There are five acres in this lot, and I 
thought it large enough to keep four or five 
