Raising Hogs in Colorado. ii 
Cheap shelter can be made with straw, sod or boards. The 
beginner can watch his small lot of hogs carefully, and learn how 
to make them grow rapidly at least expense. 
If any trouble occurs it can usually be seen in a small lot 
of pigs before it is past curbing. When there is a loss it cannot 
be heavy and the grower gets his experience cheaply. 
The second year three or four of the best sow pigs should be 
saved with their dams. 
The third year the grower should have learned enough about 
growing hogs to be able to handle ten sows and their produce, 
and after that he should know enough to slowly increase his hog 
herd to the limit of his farm. 
Cheap shelter and fences should be used until the profits from 
the hogs will pay for better ones. No large building should be 
erected until hogs have been grown several years on the farm and 
the breeder is sure of what he wants and where he needs to lo¬ 
cate it. 
Success in hog raising is determined by intelligent daily, some¬ 
times hourly, care, attention to many small details, and good judg¬ 
ment. When a farmer decides to become a hog raiser, he should 
plan to stay permanently in the business. Just before the last panic 
hogs were high and farmers in many sections of the State in¬ 
vested in them. Prices dropped, and many new beginners sold out 
even the brood sows. In six months prices were again high. 
FELD AND MANAGEMENT OE THE BOAR. 
The boar is more than one-half the herd, so far as influence 
goes. Each year he may show his strength or weakness in a hun¬ 
dred or several hundred pigs, and it is most important that he 
should be of the right type and in great bodily vigor with such 
strongly bred ancestors behind him on both sides that he will 
with certainty produce pigs of uniformly profitable type, good 
feeders that will mature early. 
No matter how superior an animal a cross-bred boar may be 
he cannot be depended upon to transmit his qualities to his pigs. 
There is a constant likelihood of the pigs inheriting the characters 
of their scrub ancestors, and no farmer can afford to use any but 
a pure bred sire. 
The boar should be evenly balanced, good in every point. The 
custom of selecting a boar unusually strong where the sows are 
weak and perhaps weak where they are strong, is a dangerous one. 
The pigs can most easily inherit the weak characteristics of both 
parents. 
The newly purchased boar should be brought to his new home 
