ALFALFA FOR SWINE. 
There is rotation in farm practices as_ well 
as in crops. Take the hog for example. Origi- 
nally it was a forest-dwelling animal, consuming 
herbage of all sorts, grasses, roots, whatever it could 
get, and mainly coarse herbage. Later it was taken 
by man and shut up in pens or yards and fed grain. 
Under such treatment all sorts of difficulties devel- 
oped, hogs became subject to disease, lost their pro- 
lificacy, became unnatural mothers, eating their 
offspring. Thus the hog fell into disrepute, got a 
reputation for unhealthfulness and natural bad 
habits. Now, thanks to alfalfa, the hog is resuming 
its rightful place as a grazing animal, is grown large- 
ly in the fields in the winter-time, eats coarse stuff, 
which it ought to do, consumes alfalfa hay. The re- 
sult is that in thousands of herds cholera has been 
banished, the hogs have become resistant because of 
their feed and healthful way of living, litters are 
larger, the sows do not eat their pigs and the cost 
of making pork has been reduced one-half. All this 
thanks to alfalfa feeding and alfalfa grazing. 
The Hog a Grazing Animal_—The truth is the hog 
is by nature a grazing animal. While not a ruminant 
like the cow and sheep yet it has capacity to take care 
of a good deal of coarse herbage and is better for 
having it. There must be a certain amount of bulk in 
its food to distend the stomach and intestines in or- 
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