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naceous food. All farmers who are careless of skim- 

 milk are wasting with every 100 pounds an article that 

 is capable of producing twenty cents' worth of pork or 

 ten cents' worth of manure. 



Skim-milk should be fed sweet, it should be fed 

 often (three or four times a day) and it should be fed 

 warm. 



I have a great many old and successful farmer 

 neighbors, but find that most of them are still depend- 

 ing solely on the lessons of practical (and sometimes 

 very costly) experience. Few of them take the trouble 

 to apply arithmetic to stock-feeding operations. The 

 younger ones, on the other hand, are on the alert, and 

 are well read in recent farm literature, and these boys, 

 as I call them, are sure to be heard from before many 

 years. They will be the leading farmers of the future ; 

 not better men than their fathers, nor better citizens, 

 but making money out of farming under conditions alto- 

 gether different and vastly more scientific than pre- 

 vailed a generation ago. 



Of course, I cannot lay particular stress on the 

 breed of hogs which happens to be my favorite, for my 

 local surroundings are of course different from those 

 of many other farmers who will read this book, and 

 who have different conditions from those which have 

 determined my choice. I cheerfully admit that there 

 are a half score of first-class breeds now well estab- 

 lished in America, and if I should be compelled to 

 change my home I might also be compelled to change 

 my breed of hogs. 



Cleanly, well-managed operations will result in 

 pork of a superior quality, because of the better health 



