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He gets chilled. Hogs want a nice place to lie and there is nothing 

 better than the ground, but they want shade. Through the sum- 

 mer I feed my hogs right out in the clover field. In the first 

 place I take and mix the shelled corn and oats and a little bran. 

 I have a patent trough that holds about two hundred and fifty 

 bushels. There is a board placed so that just enough will come 

 into the trough for them to eat and not waste it, and they will eat 

 what they want and go in the shade and lie down." 



Mr. Bugher: "There is one thing that has been forgotten 

 here which is very important to hogs, and that is salt. I have 

 found salt a very good substitute for wallowing, for the reason 

 that it has a tendency to keep hogs cool. Four different times 

 I have had my hogs attacked with cholera and I have stopped it 

 with salt and slack every time. There is hardly one farmer in 

 a hundred that feeds enough salt to his hogs, or feeds it with 

 enough regularity. I give my hogs salt, and another good 

 thing is siftings of coal. They will go for that. Fresh lime is a 

 good thing too. I had some trouble when I changed pasture 

 once and lime and water stopped it right away. If a person 

 will feed salt and some of this coal dust, it will prove beneficial. 

 It seems to be something that a hog wants. I feed salt once a 

 week." 



The President: " Why don't you feed it once a month? " 

 Mr. Bugher: " Because I think it is too long." 

 The President: " Why not every other day? " 

 Mr. Bugher: "Because it is too much work." 

 The President: "The point is here: Would it be much 

 better to keep the salt right before the hogs, just the way that 

 all straight up and down cattle feeders now keep salt before 

 their cattle all the time?" 



Mr. Moffatt : " We have a disease that is going around now 

 that has taken from this county already $15,000 worth of our 

 property and we are anxious to gain any information we can on 

 this subject of feeding hogs. I have been so unfortunate as to 

 have had hog cholera in my herd four times, and I differ from 

 the gentleman that considers salt a great panacea in that respect, 



