THE MILK MACHINE 325 
and bone on skim-milk, oatmeal, and sweet 
alfalfa. During his youth, corn meal is liberally 
added to his diet, also other dainties which he 
enjoys and makes much of; and during his whole 
life he has access to clean water, and to the only 
medicine which a pig needs, —a mixture of ashes, 
charcoal, salt, and sulphur. 
When he has spent 250 happy days with me, 
we part company with feelings of mutual respect, 
—he to finish his mission, I to provide for his 
successor. 
My early plan was to turn off 200 of this fin- 
ished product each year, but I soon found that I 
could do much better. One can raise a crop of 
hogs nearly as quickly as a crop of corn, and 
with much more profit, if the food be at hand. 
There was likely to be an abundance of food. 
I was more willing to sell it in pig skins than 
in any other packages. My plan was now to 
turn off, not 200 hogs each year, but 600 or more. 
I had 60 well-bred sows, young and old, and I 
could count on them to farrow at least three 
times in two years. The litters ought to average 
7 each, say 22 pigs in two years; 60 times 22 are 
1320, and half of 1320 is 660. Yes, at that rate, 
I could count on about 600 finished hogs to sell 
each year. Butif my calculations were too high, 
I could easily keep 10 more brood sows, for I 
had sufficient room to keep them healthy. 
The two five-acre lots, Nos. 3 and 5, had been 
given over to the brood sows when they were 
