320 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
store up for the farmer’s profit, but now it is not only all used 
to keep up the animal heat necessary to withstand the cold, 
but often the surplus energy of the whole season’s growth is ex¬ 
hausted for this same purpose, and this can be replaced only by 
much extra feed and care. 
Hogs should be well fed until the clover begins to blossom, 
then if they have a good range they will need no other food. 
From the clover field they should be turned into a patch of 
early sowed oats, and when they have harvested this, turn 
them into a field of late oats, and lastly give them a field of 
early corn. The several fields of clover, oats and corn should 
in size be proportioned to the number of hogs. To many this 
may seem a wasteful manner of feeding, but when the field is 
regulated according to the drove, they will make clean work 
of it. I have fed out forty acres of corn in one field in this 
way without wasting a single bushel. The small pigs will fol¬ 
low the large ones and gather up what they leave. They 
should also have plenty of ashes and salt. 
There are many advantages in this mode of feeding: It 
saves expense and labor in harvesting the corn and grain; 
saves labor in preparing and giving out the food; is more 
conducive to health—both, on account of being allowed to 
run at large, instead of being confined in close pens or yarels, 
and the character of the green food being better adapted to 
the wants of the animals. The olover and oats distend the 
stomach and bowels, giving greater depth of side, causing the 
animals to weigh heavier; and the oats are especially calcu¬ 
lated to regulate the system, removing the worms from the 
intestines, and correcting other difficulties to which they are 
subject; it also improves the quality of the pork, giving a 
better distribution ot the muscle, or lean meat, with the fat. 
Another advantage is the benefit to the land; its fertility 
being much increased by the manure left upon it. When 
this, with a growth of oats or clover is turned under, the soil 
is in good condition for the succeeding crop. 
This mode of feeding’is better adapted to those who keep a 
large number of hogs, but can be followed if the fields are 
