INDEX. 



Air, 134. 

 Age, 23. 



American breeds, 90. 

 American swine. 77. 

 Ancestors, 167. 

 Appetite, 164. 



Ash or mineral matter, as part of 

 a hog, 121. 



Bacon hog, 30, 65. 

 Berkshire, 81, 94. 

 Black teeth, 222. 

 Boar, feeding, 201. 



castrating, 226. 



ruptured, 229. 

 Breed, selection of, 13, 170. 



development of, 94. 



origin of, 74. 

 Breeding, 107. 



herd, 68. 



methods of, 101. 



season, 209, 211. 



sow, 216. 

 Building material for a hog, 123. 

 Byfleld, 93. 



Carbohydrate requirement, 160. 

 Carbohydrates, 127. 

 Carbonaceous concentrates, 130. 

 Castration, 226. 

 Changes in ration, 186. 

 Cheshire swine, 47, 98. 

 Chester White swine, 38, 83. 

 China swine, 93. 

 Cholera, 275. 



contagious, 276. 



prevention, 277. 

 Close breeding, 102. 

 Class of feeds. 129. 

 Coal tar dips, 287. 

 Coefficients of digestibility, 123. 

 Color of swine, 20. 

 Compounding rations, 178. 

 Construction of the hog, 117. 

 Cooking feeds, 184. 

 Cots, 259. 

 Cross breeding, 105. 



Dam, 214, 215. 

 Dipping tank. 289. 

 Digestible nutrients, 186. 



coefflclents of, 123. 

 Dry feeds, 128. 

 Durocs, 89. 

 Duroc- Jerseys, 40. 



Ear marks, 224. 

 English breeds, 74. 

 EInglish Blacks and English 

 Whites, 49. 



Environment, 165. 



Essex swine, 84, 99. 



Ether extract requirement, 128, 



161. 

 Experiment stations, work of, 140 



Farrowing, 218. 



Fat or lard hog, 14, 34, 52. 



Fat, as part of hog, 121. 



Factors in feeding, 147. 



Factor of waste, 149. 



Feed for making gains, 155. 



per hundred pounds live weight, 

 26. 



trough, 189. 



yard, 191. 

 Feeds, dry, 128, 130. 



classification and composition, 

 129. 



selection of, 170. 



ground, 180. 



cooked, 181. 



green, 130. 



changes in, 295. 

 Feeding the pig, 198, 202. 



the herd, 198. 



too little and too much, 168. 



individual, 193. 



number of feeds per day, 194. 

 Fence, panel, 262. 

 Floors for pigs, 253. 



Gains In live weight, large and 



economical, 169. 

 Grade hog, 69. 

 Grading, 104. 

 Grinding grain, 180. 

 Growth, rate of, 23. 



Hampshire, 45, 96. 

 Handling hogs, 304. 

 Heavy hogs, 302. 

 Herd boar, 72. 



sow, 71. 



records, 232. 



specimens, 72. 

 Hog, what is a, 117. 

 Hogging down com, 138. 

 Houses, 241. 



plan of, 247. 



cost of, 254. 



uses of, 257. 



small, or cots, 259, 260. 



Inbreeding, 102. 

 Irish pig, 93. 

 Irish grazier, 93, 94. 

 Individual houses, 258. 

 Inoculation, 279. 



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