166 PoKTT Years' Experience of a Practical Hog Max. 



Probably there is no business that requires character and intelligence 

 in a man to a greater degree than the breeding of pure-bred stock of 

 any kind. First, the young man when starting should know that he likes 

 the business, and has made up his mind to follow it as a permanent 

 business and to stick to it through thick and thin. This matter of 

 stick-to-it-ive-ness is one of the principle elements a man should have. 

 Next, he should he a man whose character is above reproach and 

 absolutely honest. With these elements and a determination to succeed, 

 he can build up a life business that is gratifying in every way. 



I believe a hog prefers green barley sown early in the spring to. any 

 of the other varieties of spring sown grain. Why this is I cannot ex- 

 plain, but if a patch of oats and another ot barley are sown early in 

 the spring, side by side, and pigs turned into the two lots when the grain 

 IS a few inches high, they will eat the barley all off and give little 

 attention to the oats, probably for the reason that the barley is more 

 palatable. 



Prof. Carmichael, University of Illinois, states that a field had been 

 planted with corn continuously for thirty-three years, and every year 

 was "hogged down." Within the last year or two the owner desiring 

 to learn the condition of the soil and how much com this particular 

 piece was producing after having been planted to corn for thirty-three 

 continuous years, measured off a piece before turning in the hogs, and 

 by actual measurement learned that the land was producing over 100 

 bushels of corn to the acre. 



It behooves the thinking farmer to keep up soil production, especially 

 during these days of high priced land, and this can be done profitably 

 and economically by "hogging down" corn, especially if rape or some 

 of the clovers or other grasses, or some of the grains like rye, is sown 

 in the field when the corn is laid by. This will give a good balanced 

 ration, and the hogs will do the harvesting themselves without cost to 

 the farmer, and will doubtless, taking one year with another, bring the 

 selling price of his corn up to an average of not less than $1.00 a 

 .bushel. 



There are many little things in the hog business, 'if one will try them 

 out, that are not only more economical but are less work than the old 

 methods. 



A man who would make a false pedigree would do anything else false 

 that came to his mind, and should not last long as a breeder of pure- 

 hred hogs of any breed. In other words the pedigree should be a 

 guarantee that only such animals were used in producing the particular 

 individual, as really were used. 



