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we would throw out a few bushels of ear corn. They have a 

 clover pasture to run in, and a small stream runs through it 

 where they can wallow. Our pigs never did better." 



Mr. Tenney: " Won't you tell us whether you have noticed 

 any trouble in feeding clover and buttemilk?" 



Mr. Cooke : " None whatever, we have not lost a hog from 

 any disease whatever." 



Mr. Harrison: "An old gentleman that has raised hogs all 

 his life was telling me this fall of the various methods he has 

 pursued in feeding them, and he thinks the most successful is 

 to feed about all the different kinds of grain that he can get 

 ground together, rye, oats, corn and barley, and this mixture 

 together with buttermilk, he claims has given him better suc- 

 cess than any other way." 



Mr. Boyd : "I do raise a few pigs on the farm, but we don't 

 make a business of raising hogs. Most of our milk is fed to 

 calves. We give our pigs mixed ground feed with buttermilk." 



Mr. Hostetter: " What kind of ground feed do you use?" 



Mr. Boyd: "Corn, oats and bran. It makes very nice pork.' 



The President: "About this wallowing place for hogs, my 

 experience is that you can't make a very neat, clean animal of a 

 hog. Mr. Little says a hog is a hog, and I am in the habit of 

 letting my hogs have anything they want that conduces to their 

 comfort, and I notice that in a warm day they enjoy getting into 

 a mud hole. We have a creek large enough for every hog to 

 get into, and they make all the mud holes they want. I fed 

 nearly five hundred last summer and didn't lose a hog." 



Mr. Little: "I don't know much about this, but sometimes 

 I think it is a bad thing. All these fancy dairymen say it is a bad 

 thing for a cow to go into a pond and stand there through the 

 day, and I suppose cows like it just as well as hogs do. I know 

 that my hogs, right at home, under my own eye, never do as 

 well as those of the other creamery, which has no wallowing 

 place, but there may be other reasons for that. I want to find 

 somebody who knows about this. We are after facts." 



Mr. Cooke : " You cannot raise a hog if you bring it into 



