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Should hogs that are raised on creamery buttermilk have a 

 run on clover or other pasture? 



We were informed by an intelligent gentleman at Winches- 

 ter that the way to raise grasses was to raise grasses. Now it 

 is my firm belief that a hog is a hog, and he will be a hog till 

 time shall be no more. Few creamery men know how to feed 

 milk; to hogs. The greatest mistake they make, I think, is 

 feeding too much and not often enough* I think they should be 

 fed five times per day, and the right proportion, as near as I 

 have been able to get at it, is ioo bushels of corn and 2,000 

 pounds of milk. Give them no more than they can eat up clean 

 at a time. You know how it is when you fill up a large trough 

 with milk and they drink all they can hold, go and lie down 

 near the trough, (for they cannot walk very far.) Soon they 

 will come back, root dirt into the milk, butting it into such con- 

 dition that it is not fit for food, and the consequences are the 

 hired man comes along, cleans the trough and fills again, losing 

 great quantities of valuable food. After a hog is full he should 

 be allowed to lie down and rest, but as he is a hog he does not 

 like to do so, so long as he knows there is more milk left, and 

 should there be one belated fellow who has been in the far side 

 of the pasture looking for grubs come in, both hungry and 

 thirsty, he knows it, and back to the trough he comes, but can 

 do nothing but watch the other fellows drink, and listen to the 

 music of the milk|flowing down the throat of the other fellow. 

 This is a hard moment for hog No. 1. For if Bro. Hoard's 

 nerve theory is good for a Jersey, why not for a Poland China? 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Harrison: "Tell us what you think yourself about hogs 

 having a wallowing place and clover run, and so on ?" 



Mr. Little: "I cannot answer the question: I came here to 

 learn that. I have fed hogs at three different creameries. At 

 two of these places the hogs had no wallowing places and there 

 was no grass for them to eat. At my home creamery I had 



