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plenty of range, they will do very well with a little feeding, are generally 
entirely healthy, and upon being put up to fatten, a very little grain suf- 
fices, if only attention has been paid td get the proper breed. For the 
South, we believe the Berkshire, or crosses of the Berkshire on the best 
native sows to be one of the mos^ profitable breeds. The Poland-China 
of American breeds will be found most valuable for breeders and raisers at, 
the South. 
Feeding in Confinement. 
In all the great -twine growing regions, where from twenty-five to five 
hundred hogs are annually fattened and sold from single farms, the 
life of the animals must necessarily be passed out-of-doors. So far as 
the breeding stock, and the first few months of the life of the pigs are 
concerned this is always best, both from an economical and sanitary point 
of view. There are, however, many small farmers, who annually fatten, 
from what they require for family use, up to fifteen or twenty head a 
year, who find it most convenient and economical to feed and fatten both 
in Summer and Winter in pens. All this large class must depend, first, 
on the skim milk, buttermilk and whey, and upon +he slop of the kitchen 
for iceding; second, upon clover, cut and fed, weeds and other refuse 
material about the farm, and lastly and principally on corn either ground 
or raw. It is better for all this class that the pens when built be planned 
so as to combine ease of handling with security and comfort of the 
cnimals. 
Hog Barns. 
The hog house need not be an expensive building. For a few hogs 14 
may bo in the form of a parallelogram , with a passage way in the middle 
five feet wide, with pens opening into roomy yards outside. Each pen 
should be provided with a swing door, hinged at the top, so the hoga in 
passing out and in may raise and lower it themselves. This they coon 
learn to do. The pens may be about eight feet by ten feet, which, if 
kept clean, will accommodate three or four hogs each. Thus, a range of 
pens on each side ten feet deep and a five feet passage way between willi 
require a building twenty-five feet wide. A square building of this size 
will feed twenty-four hogs. If a less number is required to be fed the 
building may be twenty-five feet one way, and, say sixteen feet the other 
way, allowing for pens. If fifty hogs are to be kept it will require six 
pens on a side, »nd the building, to secure proper accommodation, must b« 
twenty-five by forty-eight feet. 
