SWINE, FEEDING AND SHELTER 
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Still another plan is to select a yard, in a dry, well drained place, 
allowing twenty feet square for each ten hogs ; thus a lot forty feet 
square would accomodate twenty hogs. Along the middle of the pen, a 
BREEDER IN GOOD FLESH. 
oedding place is built, sixteen feet wide, with a partition, in the middle, 
and divided the other way every twenty feet by partitions. The feeding 
place should be floored, eight feet wide, and have a low trough two feet 
wide, along the side for holding ear corn. Unless the season is very 
wet and muddy, hogs do very well thus kept. If wet, they must be kept 
out of the mud by means of hay and litter thrown into the yards from 
time to time, and the sleeping places must be kept well bedaed. Kept 
in either of the ways we have designated, your hogs will go to the butcher 
fat, and showing a profit on the right side of the ledger, and your breed- 
ing sows will look like the illustration of a well-bred animal, which we 
give in ordinarily good breeding flesh, on this page. If on the other 
hand, you let your hogs shift for themselves, running wild over the 
prairie, or running about in the woods, they will, as the illustration on 
next page shows, come out pretty much like “Arkansas tooth-picks.” Stock 
of this kind may be able to care lor itself, but it will yield only a paltry return 
in the market. 
