Beginner’s Problems 375 
fatten the pigs sufficiently for market. By the term 
by-products, is meant such products of the farm as can- 
not be marketed in their present form. Grain shat- 
tered in the stubble fields, melons and pumpkins 
which have been found unsalable and left in the field, 
the aftermath of clover, skim-milk, cracklings, and table 
refuse all have a place in the pig’s diet, and can be mar- 
keted through the pigs more profitably than through 
any other kind of stock. Too few pigs will not use all the 
waste of the farm while too many will require an excessive 
amount of high-priced grain. A good rule, but one subject 
to many exceptions, is to raise one pig for each dairy 
cow on the dairy farms and one pig to each five to ten 
acres of grain on the grain farms. If this rule were uni- 
versally followed, the western markets would be liberally 
supplied with pork and every pig, not mismanaged, would 
return a profit. 
