CHAPTER HI. 
FEEDING AND SHELTER. 
OOOD VS. BAD FOOD.— SUMMER FEEDING. OTHER SUMMER FOODS.— ROOT*. 
THE GRAINS. FEEDING 80UTH. MAST. FEEDING IN CONFINE* 
MENT. HOG BARNS. A CROSS BARN. - A SIMPLE PEN. SUMMARY 
——LIGHT V8. HEAVY HOGS. 
Good vs. Bad Food 
Vegetables and grain are the basis of success in the making of pork 
whatever the breed may be. Hogs kept about large stables or distillery 
yards, where they get only offal, or fed in butcher’s yards, on the refuse 
offal of the slaughter house, are unfit for human food. They are liable 
to become infested with trichina, and, therefore, no breeder and es- 
pecially no feeder should buy animals from such localities. In fact there 
is only one redeeming feature among the disgusting filth and nastiness in 
which they are fed — they are generally provided with pure water, and 
Warm shelter. 
Summer Feeding. 
Pasturage is of the first importance. This should be ample. In pas- 
turing swine, but few varieties of grass are required. Clover, both white, 
and red, will be the main reliance. In all that region where red and 
white clover are not natural to the 6oil, and where alfalfa (lucerne) and 
other members of the pulse family do well, these may be substituted. 
Swine take kindly to blue grass, when it is young, and to orchard grass. 
They do not refuse timothy, but timothy has a bulbous root just at the 
surface of the earth. This swine eat, and thus destroy the grass. Rye 
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