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the sorghums may be made to add to the grazing; 

 northward swine may be finished in the fields, as on 

 peas or some small kind of corn. In the south peanuts 

 and also corn furnish good fattening foods. If Milo 

 maize is fed it should not be fed alone, as the swine do 

 not thrive when fed thus. 



On the dry farm the needs of the family must first 

 be supplied. If there is a surplus beyond this, it will 



SWINEJGROWN ON DRY LAND FARM, NEAR HOBSON, MONTANA 

 Courtesy Great Northern RailwayJCo. 



usually find a market without the need for shipping it. 

 This is one of the few food commodities that will never 

 glut the market, but it may be necessary sometimes, as 

 when large numbers are grown and fattened on products 

 in the field, to ship the animals away by rail. 



Poultry on the dry farm. Poultry should be kept 

 on every farm where there is a family. The climatic 

 conditions for growing it are, in nearly all localities, 



