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reason should be provided with, shade during the sum- 

 mer months, and dry, sheltered quarters in which to 

 sleep during the winter months. 



In Cincinnati and Louisville, Kentucky has splen- 

 did hog markets, in which respect she is much more for- 

 tunate than the Southern States, where the extra freight 

 rates required of the shipper of the finished porker to 

 more distant markets eat into the profits made from the 

 sale of the same animals. 



The wanner climate of the States farther south 

 makes it difficult to properly chill and cure pork, even 

 during the winter months, and that is one of the chief 

 reasons why farmers in those States look to the packer 

 to supply their immediate needs, which should be sup- 

 plied from pork produced and cured at home. Ken- 

 tucky, with her temperate climate, is particularly for- 

 tunate in this respect, as the winters are cold enough 

 to enable the farmer to chill and cure his pork with 

 safety, and thus provide meat for his own family and 

 farm laborers at a small cost. 



The raising of hogs is perhaps the cheapest and 

 easiest breeding business in which to become estab- 

 lished, because of the limited capital needed with which 

 to begin, and because of the prolificacy of this particular 

 animal. It is earnestly hoped that the efforts of the va- 

 rious agencies interested in the future of the Kentucky 

 hog, together with the natural resources which Ken- 

 tucky offers for the breeding, feeding and marketing of 

 this animal, will result in a more intelligent and enthu- 

 siastic development of the highly profitable industry 

 of hog raising. 



THE SHEEP INDUSTRY IN KENTUCKY. 



By Mark J. Smith, Department of Animal Husbandry 

 (Beef Cattle, Sheep and Swine), Kentucky Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Lexington, Kentucky. 



Kentucky is essentially a sheep State, possessing 

 numerous marked advantages for this particular indus- 

 try, and throughout the State the sheep industry is 



