42 BIGGLE SWIXE BOOK. 



breeds are known as bacon hogs, and these seem to 

 produce much lean meat. The nitrogenous foods 

 distinctly favor lean meat, and exercise operates in the 

 same direction. Lean meat is muscle. 



To produce lean meat practically I give the ani- 

 mals a large pasture field, and allow them to eat grass 

 and to root. I feed skim-milk and bran or middlings, 

 and keep them there until the approach of cold 

 weather, when they must of course have access to 

 warm quarters. A little corn at the last is keenly 

 relished by the pigs, and does not excessively increase 

 the fat, if fed for only a few weeks before butchery. 

 Such hogs would of course lay on fat very rapidly 

 under a long continued corn diet. 



DINNER TIME. 



PROMISES. 



Bristles denote a coarse skin. 

 A wet pen will make a lame hog. 

 The curry comb will do no harm. 

 Black teeth do not indicate disease. 

 Shift the hog pasture every year or two. 

 Give a hoggish hog a separate apartment. 

 The hog is not responsible for poor fences. 

 Doctoring cannot take the place of cleanliness. 

 Swine, like foolish men, never back down when they are 

 wrong. 



The proper development of the pig is lean first and fat af- 

 terward. 



Chicken-eating hogs need more wheat middlings, clover or 

 skim-milk and less corn. 



Plan a place where the pigs can rub a little and lie in thesun 

 out of the wind in cold weather. 



