xii ILLUSTRATIONS 



38. Middle White Sow 124 



39. Middle White Boar 125 



40. Pair of Middle White Barrows 126 



41. Oats and Peas 165 



42. Good Plump Wheat; Poor Wheat 168 



43. Black-hulled White Kafir 169 



44. Alfalfa 187 



45. Cow-peas 195 



46a. Side View of Alfalfa Rack 202 



466. End View of Same 202 



47. Hog Motor Grinder and Feeder 216 



48. Type of Self-feeding Hopper 217 



49. Yearling Berkshire Boar 221 



50. Breeding Crate 223 



51. Three-year-old Chester White Sow 230 



52. Method of Fastening Guard Rail to Wall 233 



53. Group of Yorkshire Bacon Pigs 239 



54. Yearling Duroc-Jersey Sow 246 



55. Panel and Support of Portable Hurdle Fence 252 



56. Duroc-Jersey Pigs Digging Johnson Grass Roots on a Corn Headland 253 



57. Mature Sow in Pasture 254 



58. Piggery at the Mississippi Experiment Station 255 



59. Hog Colony House Recommended by Mississippi Agricultural 



College 259 



60. One Method of Numbering Pigs by Means of Ear Marks 267 



61. Another Method of Ear-marking Pigs 267 



62. "Prime Heavy Hogs" 274 



63. " Prime Medium Butchers" 275 



64. "Prime Heavy Butchers" . 276 



65. "Choice Bacon" 278 



66. Diagram of Wiltshire Side, showing Method of Cutting 280 



67. Group of Selected Danish Bacon Hogs Suitable for Making Choice 



Wiltshire Sides. 281 



68. A No. 1 Wiltshire Side; a Fat Side 282 



69. King System of Ventilation for Dairy Barn or Hog-house 297 



70. Plan of Piggery 299 



71. Cross-section of Cement Trough 303 



72. Plan of Small Piggery 304 



73. Ground Plan of Maryland Piggery 307 



74. Cross-section of Maryland Piggery 307 



75. Front Elevation of Maryland Piggery 307 



76. Front View of Portable Pen 309 



77. End View of Portable Pen 309 



78. End View of A-shaped House 310 



79. Side View of A-shaped House 310 



