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INDEX 



Carbohydrates, requirement of, 136 

 Carrots, 206 

 Cassava, 207 

 Castration, 237, 238 

 Charcoal, use of, 183, 184 

 Cheshire, description, 107 

 distribution, 107 

 origin and history, 107 

 score card, 108, 109 

 types, 107, 108 

 utility, 108 

 Chester White, comparative tests, 41, 



42 



description, 65 

 distribution, 67 

 Improved, 66 

 O. I. C. strain, 67 

 origin and history, 65-67 

 score card, 70-74 

 types, 68, 69 

 utility, 69, 70 



Choice steam lard, 279, 280 

 Chufas, 200, 250, 255 

 Classification of hogs, 273 

 Cleanliness, 319 



Clover, compared with rape, 190 

 for pasture, 191, 192, 193 

 with barley, 249 

 with rape, 249 

 with rape and oats, 194 

 with wheat or rye, 250 

 Combination method of vaccinating, 



333 

 Composition of feeding stuffs, 351- 



355 



Condimental stock feeds, 181-183 

 Conformation of boar, 36 

 Constipation, 337 

 Cooking feed, 213 



weed seeds, 181 

 Corn, causes soft bacon, 134 

 characteristics of, 131 

 compared with barley, 165, 166 

 compared with corn-and-cob 



meal, 174, 175 

 compared with hominy feed, 173, 



174 



compared with kafir, 170 

 compared with peas, 164 

 compared with rice and its by- 

 products, 180, 181 

 compared with sorghum seed, 179 

 compared with wheat, 167 

 hogging off, 146-149, 250 

 influence on carcass, 132 



Corn, pounds of pork from bushel of, 



142 

 shelled, meal, soaked, and dry, 



144,445 



whole vs. ground, 142-144 

 with barley, shorts, meat meal, 



and tankage, 153, 154 

 with bloo.d meal and pea meal, 



150 



with bone meal and ashes, 151 

 with cottonseed meal, 162, 176, 



177, 254 



with meat meal, 154, 155 

 with meat meal, tankage, and 



shorts, 155-157 



with shorts, skim milk, tankage, 

 ground bone, and alfalfa pas- 

 ture, 158-160 



with skim milk, tankage, linseed 

 meal, soy beans, and alfalfa, 

 157, 158 

 with soy bean meal and linseed 



meal, 161, 162 

 with soy bean meal and 



middlings, 152 

 with tankage, 162 

 with tankage and linseed meal, 



160, 161 

 with wheat middlings and skim 



milk, 151, 152 



Corn-and-cob meal, 174, 175 

 Correctives, 245, 247 

 Cost at different ages, 244, 245 

 Cost of raising pigs, 240-242 

 Cottonseed meal, characteristics of. 



176 

 effect on hogs following 



steers, 177 

 general recommendations, 



176 



quantity to feed, 176 

 to prevent poisoning, 165 

 with corn, 162, 176, 177, 



254 

 Cow-peas, for pasture, 194, 195, 197, 



198, 249, 250 

 seed, 179 



vs. soy beans, 198 

 with corn, 250 

 Cross, breeding, 30, 31 

 Curing pork, brine and dry, 286 

 chapter on, 285-290 

 cooling, 285 

 dry-cured, 287 

 keeping, 289, 290 



