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Forty Yeaks' Experience of a Practical Hog Man. 



This will be found rmich more convenient than to lift 

 the crate from the ground whenever you wish to load a 

 hog. A small pen in the swine house or other place 

 where water is convenient should be made with a cement 

 floor and outlet to sewer, where pigs could be spray- 

 ed or washed and cleaned ready for shipment. Pigs should 

 always, especially during the warmer months, be nice and 

 clean before being crated for shipment. In fact every- 

 thing about the farm of the breeder should be attractive 

 in appearance and general arrangement. 





The Lovejoy A-shaped hog house. 



Pigs of about the same age and size should always be 

 3'arded or pastured together, as they show to much better 

 advantage; in other words the herd should be divided 

 up in as even bunches as possible, all yearlings to- 

 gether, under year sows or boars in separate yards each, 

 early spring pigs and late ones in separate yards, and so 

 on all along the line. It makes a better ijmpression on a 

 visitor than to see all ages and sizes running together. 



