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hundred pigs of all sizes in good health and good 
condition for forcing. Some of the swine, not 
intended for market, would have more liberty ; 
but close confinement in clean pens and small 
runs was to be the rule. To crowd hogs in this 
way, and at the same time to keep them free from 
disease, would require special vigilance. The ordi- 
nary diseases that come from damp and draughts 
could be fended off by carefully constructed 
buildings. Cleanliness and wholesome food ought 
to do much, and isolation should accomplish the 
rest. I have established a perfect quarantine 
about my hog lot, and it has never been broken. 
After the first invoices of swine in the winter 
and spring of 1896, no hog, young or old, has 
entered my piggery, save by the way of a sixty- 
day quarantine in the wood lot, and very few 
by that way. 
My pigs are several hundred yards from the 
public roads, and my neighbor, Jackson, has 
planted a young orchard on his land to the north 
of my hog lots, and permits no hogs in this 
planting. Ihave thus secured practical isolation. 
I have rarely sent swine to fairs or stock shows. 
In the few instances in which I have broken this 
rule I have sold the stock shown, never return- 
ing it to Four Oaks. 
Isolation, cleanliness, good food, good water, 
and a constant supply of ashes, charcoal, and 
salt, have kept my herd (thus far) from those 
dreadfully fatal diseases that destroy so many 
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