hall] SOME FARM ANIMALS 219 



Courtesy of Ginn & Co. 



A Yearling Berkshire Sow. 



in another pen and fed on corn and clover until eight months old. 

 The one, fed corn alone, weighed seventy pounds, and the other, 

 fed corn and clover, weighed two hundred forty pounds when 

 eight months old. The only reason was that one had clover and 

 one did not have. 



Boys, some farmers feed pigs all corn and water. The corn 

 fed to this pig (picture) was clean and the water was clean, and 

 the corn wasn't shoveled into the mud. How much worse would 

 it have been, I wonder, if the pig had had to root the corn out of 

 the mud and drink muddy water? Sometimes pigs die. What 

 makes them die? Sometimes farmers find dead pigs in the yard, 

 and they say, "The pig has hog cholera." And the next morning 

 there are two or three more dead, — and "More hog cholera," the 

 farmer says. The reason the pigs died was the same reason that 

 this pig was a runt. They were starved. If a boy had all the 

 candy and cake he wanted to eat, still he would be starved. If 

 he had all the potato he wanted to eat, and nothing else, he would 

 be a runt, and couldn't get his lessons or run a race with the 

 other boys. So, if a farmer has hogs he must not only have good 

 hogs, but he must feed them properly. Why do you suppose that 

 corn will not give the pig the food he needs to make him grow ? 



It is dry. 



No, the pig had all the water he wanted. Let me show you 

 some corn. A pound of corn nearly fills that bottle. Three- 

 fourths of that corn, nearly, is starch and sugar. Starch and 



