4i8 SWINE. 



her machinery caused by the high rate of speed. So it is with the high- 

 fed pig, besides the loss of feed there is the extra amount of fat, which is 

 undesirable. 



Remember, no butcher wants a pig over one hundred fifty pounds, but 

 would rather have them at one hundred pounds. It also costs less to 

 make a pig of that size than one heavier. Experiments show that one 

 hundred pounds of growth can be made, on a pig weighing fifty pounds 

 to start with, by feeding two hundred seventy-three pounds of feed, 

 while it requires four hundred seventy-nine pounds of the same kind of 

 food to make a like gain on a pig that weighs one hundred fifty pounds, 

 and it requires five hundred seventy-one pounds of food to make a one 

 hundred pounds gain on a two hundred fifty pound pig, showing that it 

 costs double to make a pound of pork on a two hundred fifty pound pig 

 that it does on a fifty pound one. So the man who feeds heavy pigs 

 produces what the market does not want at a greater cost than he who 

 feeds light ones. 



Now, a few words as to the care of swine. Swine are natives of a 

 tropical climate, and are, therefore, sensitive to cold and dampness. 

 Then give them dry, warm quarters with not too much litter. Do not, 

 for the sake of your pocket, allow them to shiver and squeal all through 

 the storms and cold of winter. And last, but not least, do not kick and 

 club them when j-ou wish to drive them, or when driven by hunger they 

 seek to satisfy their wants in forbidden places. But with kindness he 

 will go where you wish him to, and with proper feed and fence will stay 

 where you put him. No domestic animal will respond to kind treatment 

 and good feed quicker than the pig, and no animal will make a pound of 

 flesh with as small a cost as a pig. There is no branch of farming 

 which has brought as much clean profit as pork making; to him who has 

 kept his pigs in clover doubly so. That is, the man who has studied 

 intelligently to supply the wants of his swine." 



IvLEWElvIvYN I.ENT. 



