INDEX 
Curing pork, liquid smoke, 289 
plain salt, 286 
smoke flavoring powder, 289 
smoking, 287-289 
sugar cured hams and bacon, 
286, 287 
trying out lard, 290 
vessels for, 285 
Dipping, 324, 325 
Diseases, bronchitis, 334 
chapter on, 327-350 
constipation, 337 
eczema, 341 
foot-and-mouth disease, 346-348 
hog cholera, 327-333 
home treatment, 348 
indigestion, 337 
infectious sore mouth, 339 
inflammation of the udder, 340, 
341 
mange, 343, 344 
medicine, administration of, 349 
paralysis, 342, 343 
pneumonia, 334, 335 
post mortems, 348 
rheumatism, 341, 342 
rickets, 342 
scours, 338 
swine plague, 333, 334 
thumps, 339, 340 
tuberculosis, 335-337 
worms, 344-346 
Disinfection, 319, 320 
Distillers’ grains, 178 
Draughts, 298 
Drenching, 349 
Dry cured pork, 287 
Dryness of piggery, 295, 296 
importance of, 322 
Dry vs. wet feed, 214 
Duroc, 76 : 
Duroc-Jersey, comparative tests, 41, 
42 
description, 75 
disqualifications, 78 
distribution, 77 
origin and history, 75, 76 
score card, 78-82 
types, 77 
utility, 78 
Eczema, 341 
Emmer, 171 
English bacon hogs, 278 
359 
Essex, description, 110 
distribution, 111 
origin and history, 110, 111 
score card, 112, 113 
types, 111 
utility, 111, 112 
Ether extract or fat, requirement of, 
136, 137 
Exercise, influence on firmness of 
meat, 134 
the boar, 220 
the sow, 228, 229 
young pigs, 237 
Fall rye, for pasture, 197, 250, 251 
Farrowing, 232 
pens for, 301 
portable pens for, 309-317 
Fat or lard type, 9 
breeds of, 13 
description of, 10-13 
feed required compared with 
bacon type, 44 
scale of points, 19, 20 
Fattening, chapter on, 243-261 
correctives, 245-247 
cost increases with age, 244, 245 
money returns for feed, 247, 248 
quantity of feed, 244 
regularity, 244 
winter, 248, 244 
Feed for maintenance, 140 
Feeding and management, 
of boar, 219-225 
of fattening hogs, 243-261 
of sow, 226-235 
of young pigs, 236-242 
Feeding for health, 322 
Feeding standard, 135-137 
criticism of, 138, 139 
how to use, 137, 138 
Feeding stuffs, composition of, 351- 
355 
Fermenting feed, 214 
Floors, 302, 303 
Flour, 173 
Foot-and-mouth disease, 346-348 
Frosted wheat, compared with barley, 
168, 169 
fed in combinations, 167 
Garbayve, 211, 212 
General Construction, 298-304 
Gentry, advice on in-breeding, 27 
Gestation, period of, 227 
table of, 269 
