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Remember your brood sows especially need exercise. In winter it will 

 be hard to make them take this through the snow. So instead of letting 

 your hogs feed from the troughs and then immediately return to their 

 comfortable beds, keep them on their feet by a new system entirely; make 

 paths in the lot so they can easily travel through the snow, and then 

 scatter their food in the paths. They will spend considerable time col- 

 lecting it, and on account of the exercise and pure air, tend to much heartier 

 feeding. 



Be good to the good sow. When she proves herself a good mother 

 with nice litters of healthy offspring, and gives them plenty of nourishment 

 the first week for on this right start so much of their future profitable 

 development will depend when she does this, get out your memorandum 

 book and pencil and count up what she is worth to you, according to 

 whether she farrows once or twice yearly. When you see it all down in 

 your own figures, black and white, then you'll vote her a little life insurance 

 and care for her the best you know how. Well cared for in good comfort- 

 able, disinfected quarters (see page 190 on Conkey's Nox-i-cide Dip and 

 Disinfectant); free from lice (see pages 192 and 200, also pages 218 and 219 

 on Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant); thriving and well-fed (see pages 52 

 to 55, also pages 193 and 207 on Conkey's Stock Tonic) ; she will keep up 

 her constitutional vigor maybe ten years or more, and will represent a small 

 fortune for an appreciative owner. 



