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requested to write this boolt, along practical lines of breeding, feeding, 

 care and selling of hogs, both for the market and for breeding purposes. 



Starting with a pair of young pigs way back in the dim distance, the 

 business of breeding hogs was commenced by the writer. Knowing 

 nothing whatever in the beginning, the only way anything has been 

 learned has been by actual experience during all these years, iinding 

 out each day something that must be learned. This experience has been 

 very costly, but that learned at the greatest expense one never forgets. 



It is a small matter in what way water is furnished daily to every iog 

 and pig on the farm, but it is of much importance that it be furnished in 

 some way. 



The eye of the feeder is one of the great things in the hog business. 

 The man who feeds the pigs should take interest enough in his work to 

 carefully note the condition of each animal daily, and if there is ever 

 so small a change in the animal, by way of being a little "off feed," he 

 must at once find out what the trouble is, whether it is an over feed 

 from the day before, or a little indisposition from conditions which, un- 

 less promptly attended to, might lead to serious trouble. The old adage 

 that "A stitch in time saves nine" was never more true than in the case 

 of swine. 



The policy of the pure-bred stock breeder should be always to satisfy 

 liis customer, is possible. 



There should be a manufacturing company somewhere that would get 

 together all these conveniences for the equipment of the swine breeding 

 farm. 



Every breeder should procure a typewriter and learn to use it, and 

 write all letters on this machine. It is rather hard for some men to write 

 a nice hand with a pen, and there are often some words in the letter that 

 are not plainly written and that puzzle the one receiving it, besides, when 

 writing a letter on the machine the copy can be made at the same time 

 and filed with the original letter. 



However, I believe when the crate is to be used, the animals to be bred 

 should be turned together for a short time for the purpose of getting 

 acquainted, and the teasing is no doubt a great benefit, but the practice 

 of forcing a sow into a breeding crate, then bringing the boar to her, 

 without any teasing, does not always work out as expected and sometimes 

 creates much trouble. 



It is a well known fact that the nutriment in feed for swine, or its 

 value as a flesh producer, is not increased by cooking; but it is also a 

 well known fact that during the cold months, at least in the northern 

 States, much benefit is derived in feeding Fall pigs and others not well 

 on to maturity, a warm feed rather than one mixed with cold, icy 

 water. 



