SWINE RAISING IN HAWAII. 
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The following report was submitted by the agricultural depart- 
ment of the Kamehameha schools: 
Breeding. — 
Breed gilts at 11 or 12 months for first litter. 
Breed to drop second litter at 24 months. 
Breed sows every 7 months thereafter for a litter. 
Use young boar for light service at 9 months. 
Housing. — 
Place sows in 8 by 16 foot double farrowing houses having guardrail, and 
opening on leeward side; no draughts and very little bedding. 
Pigs in out-of-door runs should have access to shelter during rainy season 
only. 
Brood-sow pens should bs provided with hog creeps. 
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Fig. 23. — Stock judging. Kamehameha School. 1905. 
Yards. — 
Should be furnished with artificial shade where trees are scanty. 
Should be sprinkled during the middle of the day to lay dust and make 
pens cool. 
Should be furnished with rubbing posts. 
Feeding. — 
Kitchen garbage should form basic ration and be supplemented with 
tankage. 
Young pigs should be given equal parts of middlings, ground oats, and 
meal in the form of slop twice daily, beginning when the animals are 
about 1 month old and continuing until they are 5 months old. Not 
more than 15 young pigs should be fed in the same pen. After they 
are 5 months old the pigs should be fed kitchen garbage. 
Boars should be daily fed wheat bran, ground oats, rolled barley, and 
wheat middlings in equal parts in the form of slop. Garbage is too 
fattening. A standard mineral mixture should be fed at the rate of 
1 tablespoonful per hog once a day. "Polled barley in self-feeders 
should be used to supplement garbage in market pens. Self-feeders 
are not advisable for use of hogs that are kept for breeding. 
Other features. — 
Complete system of records are kept by the schools. 
Boars are kept in individual pens. 
Sows are bred in the latter part of the heat period. 
Attention is given to sows at farrowing time. 
