SWILL TUB AND CORN CRIB. 6l 



at times be quite justifiable. Clover should be cut 

 fine and steamed and meal mixed with it, for the pigs 

 to eat it best. Soaking in water and mixing with 

 meal does very well. It may be sprinkled with water 

 and meal dusted over it and they will relish it. Hogs 

 will eat clear clover hay when cut in full blossom and 

 well cured. 



Much has been said and written about feeding 

 swill sweet or slightly soured many good feeders 

 advocating that swill should be mixed and allowed to 

 stand for about twelve hours before feeding. I have 

 studied the feeding problem as I never studied any 

 other thing, and if there is any good reason founded 

 on facts, either from a scientific or common-sense 

 standpoint, that goes to prove that swill is rendered 

 more digestible or more nutritious by being allowed 

 to ferment, I confess I have failed to find it. I give it 

 as my belief, founded on actual experience, that swill 

 is not only NOT rendered more digestible or more 

 nutritious by fermentation, but is thereby actually ren- 

 dered less digestible and less nutritious. It is true 

 that many feeders have succeeded, and succeeded well, 

 that fed sour swill, but this by no means proves 

 that they would not have succeeded better had they 

 fed swill without souring. Then, by all means, let 

 swill be fed sweet. 



A word about the swill tub or milk vat : Let it be 

 kept decently clean by at least occasional scrubbings 

 and scaldings. A good plan is to have two. While 

 one is in use, let the other be cleaned and stood in the 

 sun. It is possible to have the barrel so foul as to be 

 a positive menace to the health of the pigs. See to it. 



