LIST OF PLATES 



I. Suitable conditions for the breeding boar . Frontispiece 



TO FACE rAQH 



II. Pregnant sows should have range during the winter; 



a practical method of feeding alfalfa hay ... 40 



III. Three gilts, litter mates ; weights at six months — 



170, 185, and 250 pounds. The evidence of good 

 management and the promise of profits ... 98 



IV. A visible demonstration of the deficiencies of corn 



alone for growing and fattening pigs ; a big smooth 

 gilt with only two pairs of good teats, an expensive 



luxury 150 



V. Sows and pigs on alfalfa ; pigs in clover ; pigs in rape 200 

 VI. Hogging-down com and soybeans .... 240 

 VII. Pigs on the self-feeder; a practical convenience in 



hand-feeding 270 



VIII. Champion pen Duroc-Jersey barrows; carcass of a 

 model bacon hog ; Number 1 Wiltshire side ; pork 



cuts, lard hog 310 



IX. Location of wholesale cuts of lard hog ; points of the 



hog 350 



X. Representatives of the different breeds. Berkshire 

 sow; a champion Hampshire .sow; a champion 

 Duroc-Jersey sow ; Chester- White boar . . 390 



XI. Representatives of the different breeds. Poland-China 

 boar; a champion large Yorkshire sow; spotted 

 Poland-China sow ; Tamworth sow .... 440 

 XII. Litter of pigs containing a reversion in color, the product 

 of mating Berkshire- Yorkshire parents; Poland- 

 China sow with htter of pigs by a Yorkshire boar ; 

 Berkshire sow with Utter of pigs by a Duroc-Jersey 



boar 470 



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