CHAPTER XVII. 



MARKET POINTS. 



The hog is a machine for converting golden corn into golden 

 coin. John Tucker. 



In previous chapters I have in- 

 troduced statements and facts which 

 might have been reserved for this talk 

 about markets, and shall here per- 

 haps mention matters which might 

 as well have been treated elsewhere. 

 The truth is that every detail of the 

 art of swine husbandry is so intimately associated with 

 every other detail that it is quite impossible to consider 

 each separately. Marketing, the final detail, may be 

 called the sum total of the other details. 



The profit in pigs depends very largely upon the 

 age at which they are sold. The case was put forcibly 

 by a trial in the West some time ago, when a cash ex- 

 periment was made with fifty-four Duroc Jersey pigs. 

 The average birthday of these pigs was April I5th. 

 Their average weight, when weaned at two and a half 

 months old, was forty-one pounds. 



At eight months old their average live weight was 

 210 pounds, at a cost for feed and labor of $ 1.62 per 100 

 pounds. 



' At nine months old and three days their average 

 weight was 247^ pounds, at a cost of $1.80 per 100 

 pounds. 



