4 INTRODUCTORY 
Profit from Hogs.—The man who makes money out of 
hogs is the man who has hogs to sell when prices are high, 
whose farm is never over-stocked, nor yet entirely depleted of 
its supply. He knows how many hogs his farm will carry to 
advantage under average circumstances, and he practises a 
wise conservatism. When prices are high, he has a good profit, 
when they are low, his profit is small, but the average is fairl 
satisfactory. He may slightly expand or contract his operations 
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at various times, but he never “ plunges.” 
The “plunger” is apt to find himself “in” the hog 
business when he ought to be ‘out,’ and “out” when he 
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ought to be “in.” The other man is “ 
in” at all times, but 
never to such an extent as to be seriously damaged when the 
market goes wrong. 
Judgment Required.—It is not the object of the writer to 
urge farmers to feed more hogs—far from it. Every farmer 
must be his own judge in this matter, and many farmers 
should never attempt to raise hogs, owing to the fact that 
either the man himself is not adapted to the business or his 
conditions are unsuitable. Nevertheless, it is true that a few 
hogs might be kept profitably upon many farms where they do 
not find a place to-day. 
Hogs use By-products.—Generally speaking, the hog may 
be regarded as a by-product of the farm, or, in other words, 
he is a means of marketing the by-products of the farm. In 
the cattle feed lots, we find him utilizing the corn which the 
cattle have failed to digest and which otherwise would be 
wasted. In the dairy district, he is the means of obtaining 
good value for skim milk, buttermilk, and whey. Where 
mixed farming is practised, he consumes any dairy by-products, 
small potatoes, and various other unmarketable substances, and 
gleans the stubble fields, returning to his owner cash value 
