INDEX 



361 



Money returns for feed, 247, 248 

 Mule-foot, description, distribution, 

 origin and history, utility, 120, 121 



Oat feed, 177, 178 

 Oats, 169, 170 



for pasture, 249 



Oats, rape, and clover pasture, 194 

 O. I. C. strain of Chester White, 67 



Packing hogs, 277 

 Paralysis, 342, 343 

 Pasture, amount of grain on, 196, 200, 



201 

 Pasture and soiling crops, chapter on, 



186-204 



for the South, 248-259 

 Pasture vs. soiling, 200 

 Pea meal with corn, 150 

 Peanuts, 179, 180 



for pasture, 199, 250, 255 

 Peas, Canada field, 164 

 Pedigree, 31-34 

 Pigeon grass seed, 181 

 Piggeries, Brethour's, 298-304 

 plans of, 298-308 

 small, 304, 305 

 Southern, 306-308 

 Pigs, feeding and management, after 



weaning, 238-340 

 before weaning, 236, 237 

 castration, 237, 238 

 chapter on, 236-242 

 cost of raising, 240-242 

 exercise, 237 

 market definition, 277 

 marking, 266-268 

 reviving weak or chilled, 236 

 Pin-worm, 345 

 Place of hog upon farm, 3-8 

 Plans of piggeries, 298-308 

 Pneumonia, 334, 335 

 Poland-China, comparative tests, 41, 



42 



description, 54 

 distribution, 57 

 origin and history, 54-57 

 score card, 59-64 

 types, 57, 58 

 utility, 58, 59 

 Pork, curing of, 285-290 

 dry cured, 287 

 from bushel of corn, 142 

 mess, 279 

 plain salt, 286 



Pork, production in South, 248-261 

 Portable pens, A-shaped, 309-312 



for winter farrowing, 314- 



316 

 for winter quarters, 308, 



309 



shed-roof, 312-314 

 Post mortems, importance of, 348 

 Potatoes, 206 

 Preparation of feed, chapter on, 213- 



216 



Prime steam lard, 280 

 Production, cheapening of, 264 

 cost at different ages, 244, 245 

 cost of young pigs, 240-242 

 possibilities of, 247, 248 

 Products of hogs, 279-283 

 Profit from hogs, 4-8 

 Protein, requirement of, 135, 136 

 Pumpkins, 208 

 Pure-bred hogs, 7, 8 



Quarantine, 321, 322 



Rape, compared with alfalfa, 188, 



189 



compared with clover, 190 

 compared with soy beans, 190, 



191 



for pasture, 189, 190, 249 

 with oats and clover, 194 

 Records, 265, 266 

 Red clover, see clover 

 Registering, 264, 265 

 Relation of breed to economy of pro- 

 duction, 41-44 

 Rheumatism, 341, 342 

 Ribs, or short ribs, 279 

 Rice, bran, 180, 181 



by-products, 180, 181 

 hulls, 180 

 meal, 180 

 polish, 180 

 rough red, 180 

 with cottonseed meal, 177 

 Rickets, 342 



Roots, dairy by-products, etc., chap- 

 ter on, 205-212 

 effect of, 205, 206 

 meal equivalent of, 205 

 relative merits of, 206 

 Round worm, 344 

 Ruptured pigs, castration of, 237, 



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Rutabagas, 206, 251 



