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avoided altogether, for although a pig is 

 omnivorous, she should be entirely restricted, 

 with one exception — milk — to vegetable food, 

 grain, pulse, grass, forage plants, and roots. 

 When a sow is with her litter she should 

 be fed on middlings, and in course of time 

 the young ones will feed with her from the 

 same trough. When they feed with regu- 

 larity a separate trough should be provided 

 in an adjoining pen which they alone can 

 enter. The food supplied in this pen should 

 consist at first of middlings, with the addition 

 of a small quantity of barley meal, which 

 may be increased, so that by the time they are 

 weaned they will be fed upon a fattening 

 ration. To barley meal, when middlings are 

 abandoned, skim milk may be added by 

 degrees instead of water, and steamed potatoes 

 in small quantities, these foods forming the 

 best ration, as shown by results. The practice 

 of cooking grain is not followed by similar 

 success. Young pigs should not receive house 

 wash or garden waste, but be kept growing 

 in the sty until ready for sale. If, how- 

 ever, they are intended for stock, they 

 may be turned out for daily exercise, 

 inasmuch as a well-fed animal is thus 

 better fitted for reproductive purposes than 



