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more healthy and vigorous hog can be produced under 

 this method than under the forcing method. 



Hogs treated as above are not marketed under 

 twenty or twenty-four months of age and are fed off 

 weighing from 450 to 500 pounds each. Before the 

 days of cottonseed oil, this kind of hog commanded 

 a premium over the light hog, but of late they have 

 sold at from twenty-five to fifty cents per hundred less 

 than the 2oo-pound hog. 



The third method in vogue in the West is that of 

 feeding hogs with or rather after fattening cattle. In 



POLAND CHINA SOW, THREE YEARS OLD. A FAVORITE 

 WESTERN BREED. 



the good old times of thirty-five or forty years ago, 

 cattle were fed in droves of from 100 to 200 head, with 

 hogs to clean up the waste. This, in my opinion, was 

 the most profitable manner in which hogs were ever 

 handled. The hogs were bought weighing from 100 to 

 200 pounds and allowed to clean up after the cattle for 

 from three to six months and would make a gain of 

 nearly, if not quite, one and one-half pounds per day. 



