74 HIGGLE SWINE BOOK. 



Various stations have reported inability to make 

 pork on pasture alone ; alfalfa pasture is perhaps an 

 exception. 



I think that by and by farmers will all agree that 

 certain rules apply to young animals which do not ap- 

 ply to older ones, and that summer treatment must be 

 different from winter treatment, and that the whole 

 matter may be expressed as follows : Nitrogenous 

 foods, like skim-milk or middlings, for all young pigs, 

 both winter and summer ; carbonaceous foods, like 

 corn, etc., for all animals, at all seasons ; sparingly in 

 summer and liberally in winter, and to fattening ani- 

 mals lavishly. 



We must work on the scientific basis which the 

 nutritive ratio so well suggests. Pig-feeding is better 

 understood as the theory of nutritive ratio is better 

 comprehended. To know the needed ratio or propor- 

 tion between protein and carbohydrates in foods is to 

 use foods economically. 



SLICES OF BACON. 



Give the boy a pig. 



Use roots for hogs. Successful stockmen do it. 



The pasture must be made more of a factor in the swine 

 business. 



It sounds contradictory, but it is good advice to fatten the 

 hogs lean. 



Profit is in keeping the pound cost of production well below 

 the pound price at selling time. 



Bran makes the hog long; corn-meal makes it broad. Mid- 

 dlings are a better food than bran. 



It has been estimated that twelve quarts of skim-milk may be 

 converted into one pound of young pork. 



At fattening time a daily bundle of clover with the corn-meal 

 will aid digestion and improve the pork. Let the pigs grunt, but 

 never let them squeal. 



