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 fairly 

 satisfactory. He may slightly expand or contract his operations 

 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 

 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 jiidge 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 com 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 



