CONTENTS XIX 



PAGK8 



Feeding the herd in winter 477 



Feeding the young and old herd. 



Fattening Swine 478 



Feeding the lard hog 479 



Feeding the lard hog in summer 479 



Feeding the lard hog In winter 481 



Feeding the bacon hog 483 



Summer feeding on pasture 484 



Winter feeding in dry-lot . 484 



Sample Rations for Swine 486 



CHAPTER XXIII 



The Breeding of Swine 487-502 



Plan of Breeding 487 



Cooperative breeding. 



Selecting Breeding Stock 489 



The type — Uniformity. 



The Boar . . 490 



The Sows 491 



Productive period — Season to breed — Metliod of mating — The 

 pregnant sow — Farrowing time — The brood sow eating her 

 pigs — The sow after farrowing. 



The Pigs 498 



The first meal — Pig ills — Feeding the pigs — Weaning the pigs 



— Castrating pigs — Marking pigs — Pigs after weaning. 



CHAPTER XXIV 



Cake and Management 503-509 



Dipping Swine . ........ 503 



Shelter for Swine .... 504 



The large hog-house — The individual hog-house — The A-shaped 

 individual hog-house — The shed-shaped individual hog-house 



— Disadvantages and advantages. 



The Hog Lot 509 



Hog-wallows. 



CHAPTER XXV 



Diseases op Swine 510-524 



Quarantine lot . . . 510 



