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tastes. Denmark is one of our keenest competitors in 

 the line of bacon. 



But though the foreign market is great, the home 

 market for American pork is many fold greater, and 

 it is in the home market that careful swine breeders 

 must look for best returns, particularly with choice 

 products, as I have already indicated. 



Summing up the whole situation, from the cash 

 standpoint, it is therefore evident that profits depend 

 for the most part on economy of production. The 

 quality of pork must be the best, yet there can be no 

 food w r asted in making it. Neither must any waste of 

 the manure be permitted, for in many cases the real 

 profits on the manure are fully as large as on the pork 

 itself. Neither can farmers afford any losses through 

 avoidable sickness among the hogs, for disease is 

 excessively expensive. 



Only the best methods will yield satisfactory re- 

 sults, and while I have my own choice as to breed of 

 swine I think it is more a question of management than 

 breed. It will no doubt sound presumptuous, but I 

 cannot withhold the opinion that many of us are very 

 wasteful of skim-milk and corn-meal in our ordinary 

 feeding operations, by reason of our sluggishness in 

 grasping the full significance of the idea of a properly 

 balanced food ration. It is in reduced cost that we 

 must look for increased profit. 



On various occasions I have urged the selling of 

 farm products in small packages in choice forms to 

 particular people, and to learn the standing of the pig 

 in really polite and select society I called the other 

 day at a Chestnut street grocery store. The hog was 



