The Ideal Hog Farm. IS 



A little of it for fall pigs is good but they should also 

 have a feed once or twice a day of a warm slop con- 

 taining skimmed milk if possible, or enough tankage to 

 balance the other materials. 



Further along the line of the Ideal Hog Farm, I wish 

 to say that this farm should be located as near as possible 

 to a good shipping point or on an Interurban line leading 

 to some city where one or more railroads enter, the more 

 the better. It should also be located on a good hard road 

 rather than on muddy lanes or steep hills, so that pigs 

 could be delivered at any time during the year rain or 

 shine. It should also have some portion of the farm cover- 

 ed with a nice growth of trees where dry sows and 

 young hogs could be carried along on good pasture 

 between breeding seasons. This pasture for best results 

 should have springs or running water of some kind,, 

 but springs would be preferable rather than a stream run- 

 ning through the farm. The farm should be large enough 

 to furnish all the grain and feed that would be used in the 

 business, as well as straw to make first-class bed- 

 ding, and fields should all be rather small, say from 10 

 to 20 acres each and all fences both outside and division 

 fences should be made of woven wire with steel or cement 

 posts, so that when once built there would be no need of 

 repairing for a generation. Suitable gates made of gal- 

 vanized piping with woven wire should open into every 

 field and pasture. These gates should not be less than 

 14 feet wide, so that teams could be driven in and out when 

 necessaiy. Suitable barns, nicely painted and kept in good 

 repair, should be of sufficient number to contain all the 

 products of the farm, both grain, hay and straw. A sm"&ll 

 building used as a shop should by all means be on every 

 well regulated breeding farm, where crates, hurdles and 

 anything along these lines could be made as needed. This 

 shop should be furnished with a complete set of tools, in- 

 cluding carpenters tools, pump, tongs, various kinds of 

 wrenches, etc., and all such tools as are constantly needed 

 on a farm. 



If the owner has any knowledge of blacksmithing a port- 

 able forge, a drilling outfit, etc., should also be in the shop. 

 Also a good heating stove so that work could be done here 



