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Well they went for a few days and then all commenced cough- 

 ing again. I gave them more slack and the cough stopped 

 again. I kept it up and after a little they quit coughing entirely " 

 The President: "I had a different experience. I had thirty- 

 four as fine shoats as ever I had in my life and I fed slack and 

 buttermilk to them and they all died but six." 



I want to say that the reasons that hold good for keeping 

 cows out of muddy water will not hold good in keeping hogs 

 out of the mud. One reason is that you don't want the cow to 

 drink the filthy water and spoil the milk, and another thing we 

 want her eating all the time, we can't afford the time for her to 

 stand m the water and switch flies." 



THE PIG IN RELATION TO THE DAIRY. 



BY SANDERS SPENCER, OF HOLYWELL MANOR, ENGLAND 



(Excerpts from address to British Dairy Farmers' Association.) 

 It is a matter of surprise that so little progress has of late 

 years been made by farmers generally in pig breeding and 

 dairying, after attention has been so repeatedly called to the 

 vast importance of these industries. 



Until recently, by far the greatest competitor in pig-raising 

 and feeding was America, a country in which, for the last three 

 or four years, more pigs have died from hog cholera and other 

 diseases than have been raised in the British Isles during the 

 same period of time. From this unsanitary state, from the in- 

 crease of population, and from other causes, the production of 

 pork has decreased, and the price in the States increased, whilst 

 much of the pork product which has been shipped to Europe 

 has been simply concentrated maize, a compound which does 

 not commend itself to the tastes of those who have had an op- 

 portunity of enjoying pork manufactured from milk, oatmeal 

 wheatmeal, peameal and potatoes. Bacon and hams made 

 from pigs fed on the latter foods are fit for the gods. 



