SWINE MANAGEMENT.! 



CONTENTS. 



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The merits of the hog 



Hog-gro\\-ing sections of the United States . . . 



Location of farm for hog raising 



Number of hogs for a farm 



The foundation herd. 



Feeding and management 



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Sanitation in the hog lot. 



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Prevention of disease. 

 Treatment of disease. . 

 Destruction of vermin 

 Intestina 1 worms 



THE MERITS OF THE HOG. 



NO BRAXCH of live-stock farming gives better results than the 

 raising of well-bred swine when conducted with a reasonable 

 amount of intelligence. The hog is one of the most important animals 

 to raise on the farm, either for meat or for profit, ajid no farm is com- 

 plete unless some hogs are kept to aid in the modern method of 

 farming. The farmers of the South and West, awakening to tht^ 

 merits of the hog, are rapidly increasing their output of pork ajid 

 their bank accounts. The hog requires less labor, less equipment, 

 less capital, and makes greater gains per hundred pounds of con- 

 centrates than any other farm animal, and reproduces himself 

 faster and in greater numbers; and returns the money invested 

 more quickly than any other farm animal except poultry. 



In the trucldng and mixed-farming sections of the United States 

 hogs are used to consume various unmarketable substances. The 

 value of milk is known on every farm although it may not be fully 

 appreciated, and any one Who has fed pigs know^s the keoji appetite 

 they have for milk and its products. In the neighborhood of many 

 large dairies pork production has become a very prominent and 

 lucrative supplement to the dairy industry. The hog is also a 

 large factor in cheapening the production of beef. Hogs are placed 

 n the cattle feed lots to utilize the corn and other feeds which the 

 cattle have failed to digest and w^hich otherwise would be w^asted. 



1 This bulletin is a revision of Farmers* Bulletin 205, entitled "Pig Management/* a large amount of 

 the material in that bulletin being used in the present one. The material on equipment and housing, 

 however, has been largely omitted from the present article and \m11 be published in a separate bulletin. 

 The sections cn diseases and parasites of s\\ine were prepared with the collaboration of Dr. John R. Mohler, 

 Assistant Chief ofthe Bureau of Animal Industry,and Dr. B. H. Ransom, Chief ofthe Zoological Division. 

 In the preparation ofthe manuscript the authors were assisted by Mr. R. E. Gongwer, Scientific Assistant 

 in the Animal Husbandry Division. 



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