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succulence is available for winter use, much better results can be 
obtained than if dry feed alone must be depended on. Sugar- 
beets, roots, turnips, potatoes, artichokes, and pumpkins are 
often used. No succulence exceeds skim-milk for winter feeding. 
In the absence of any other succulent food, mashes should be 
made, as suggested for summer feeding. For best results, mash 
or succulent food, grain, and a small amount of dry forage should 
be fed. Sweet, clean clover or alfalfa hay should constitute the 
dry forage. It should be fed from a rack. 
Care should be exercised in providing dry quarters and lots as 
free from mud as possible. The warmth of the quarters best 
suited for fattening swine may depend somewhat on the feeds 
used. When corn, in one of its many forms, as ear corn, shelled 
corn, corn meal, and the like, constitutes the major part of the 
ration, the quarters need not be so warm as when an abundance 
of more succulent food is fed, such as skim-milk. 
474. Feeding the bacon-hog. —In the production of bacon, 
the foods must differ from those used in feeding the fat-hog. In 
some cases the same food-stuffs 
may be used in part, but the mix- 
ture must be varied. Corn, the 
mainstay in the production of the 
fat-hog, cannot be used with suc- 
cess in larger proportions than one- 
third of the grain ration. A larger 
proportion is likely to produce an 
undesirable quality of bacon. The 
foods very largely used are shorts, 
oats, peas, barley, and skim-milk. Barley is perhaps the food 
most used, especially in Canada, where bacon production finds 
much favor. It is often fed ground or soaked. Usually it is 
fed in connection with small amounts of other food, as peas, 
oil meal, finely ground oats, tankage, and the like. Peas are 
used to a considerable extent in the production of bacon in 
Fic. 118. — A_ well-finished bacon- 
hog. 
