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when he sees one wandering around as though he was hungry, 

 to go and fill up the trough, if it is ten times a day never to let 

 them get hungry." 



Mr. Harrison: "Do you consider the evidence that they 

 are hungry the fact that they squeal?" 



The President : " Our hogs in this country don't squeal." 



Mr. Tenney: "My experience is that a hog will squeal for 

 buttermilk twenty-three hours out of twenty-four." 



The President: "Not if you have wheat middlings with it. 

 We would like to hear from Mr. Tenney, who is from near 

 Champaign, central Illinois, where they raise ten hogs to our 

 one." 



Mr. Tenney: "When I first started a creamery I adopted 

 the plan of buying hogs through the neighborhood, but I found 

 that I not only bought hogs, but I bought cholera too in every 

 instance, so after the first year or two I gave up feeding hogs, 

 and for a year or more kept none at all. This spring I adopted 

 the plan of raising hogs, and so far this year's experience has 

 been profitable. I have sold five or six hundred young hogs, 

 and I have had no cholera. I have fed buttermilk and ear corn 

 during the last year, but I have about concluded that feeding a 

 hog all the ear corn he will eat is too wasteful." 



Mr. F. Cooke, of Iowa : " Last year we sold from the cream- 

 ery young hogs to the amount of $482. We fed them about 

 all the corn they wanted along with the buttermilk. Our but- 

 termilk runs from the churn through a pipe and down into a 

 large vat, which is connected with the trough projecting into 

 the pen so that they cannot crawl into it or get mud into it. We 

 sold off in May, and at intervals of about once a month until the 

 10th of November, when we sold off every hog we had, and 

 we realized $980 odd. At the present time we have eighty- 

 two shoats that will weigh from fifty to two hundred and twen- 

 ty-five pounds, according to age. We consider it a success. 

 The corn that we fed them we soaked in the buttermilk, and 

 when we didn't have any ground feed we would put some 

 shelled corn in and when we had neither shelled nor ground 



