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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Of all gross feed for hogs that I have used, I regard the 
sugar beet the cheapest and best for my locality. A great 
quantity can be grown to the ground and for the labor. It 
needs no cooking, will keep till September good and crisp ; 
the tops are eaten as readily as the roots, both being devoured 
with as much gusto as fresh chestnuts. For breeding sows with 
nursing pigs we regard them as indispensable. Lane’s Amer¬ 
ican Improved Imperial is the best variety I have yet tried, 
being rich in sugar, easily harvested and a great yielder. 
These suggestions are derived from my own experience in 
my present locality, and of course will have to undergo some 
modification to fit other cases exactly, but may suggest the 
idea to farmers generally, that it will pay to use some suitable 
adjunct to the corn crop besides the clover pasture and the pea- 
patch in making pork. 
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