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tus as we described a few pages back. Cooking on a small 

 scale, will only be done where the farmer has a warm pen, 

 and does his fattening in winter, when he has little else to 

 do. If ten pigs are fed 100 days upon seven pounds of 

 corn-meal each, per day whole amount, 7,000 pounds, or 

 125 bushels and if we suppose that cooking will give five 

 pounds more to the bushel, or 625 pounds of live pork, and 

 this worth five cents per pound, the feeder will receive 

 $31.25 for the expense of cooking. It is for the farmer to 

 determine whether he could afford to perform this labor for 

 3 IK cents per day. But if he has 100 hogs to feed, he will 

 receive $312.50 for the 100 days, or $3.12K per day. It is 

 easy to see that the latter will pay. 



In our plan of cooking, we exclude all attempts to feed 

 cooked food in troughs in the open air in cold weather. 

 Nothing but failure can be expected of such attempts. 

 The food will be hot or frozen. Great changes in the tem- 

 perature of the food is not relished, and food in a semi- 

 liquid state is to be avoided when the temperature is much 

 below 60 F. If hogs are to be fed in the open air, in 

 winter, it should be with dry food. Corn, then, will do best 

 in its natural state ; but if the weather is cold, as we have 

 seen, it will require liberal feeding to produce any gain. 



In rearing young pigs in winter, some arrangement for 

 cooking will be quite essential to rapid growth. In pre- 

 paring slops for the brood sows, to cause a generous flow of 

 milk, cooking will be required. We quite agree with Dr. 

 Stetson, on page 478, upon this point. Facility for cook- 

 ing, will enable the feeder always to give a greater variety 

 in the diet of young, as well as fattening hogs. In cook- 

 ing, everything may be used to advantage. Pumpkins, 

 potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, cabbages, short-cut clover, 

 oil-meal, wheat-middlings each or all may be cooked with 

 the corn or corn-meal, making a savory mess, greatly 

 relished by pigs or fattening hogs. As in the near future, 



