3 iS WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY . 
ance, that the best results may be obtained from the material ex¬ 
pended. This skill or success is dependent on many things, 
such as the selection of good well bred stock, the kind of food 
used or employed, the mode of preparing it, and particularly the 
kind given to the stock when young, and many other things, all 
of which we should consider and investigate. I have been aston¬ 
ished by my own experience, the very short time it required to 
fatten stock for market on prepared food with good care. What¬ 
ever method is adopted, and of course modes will differ with dif¬ 
ferent individuals, enough should be given that the animal may 
develop progressively and become in the end all it is capable of 
becoming according to the laws of its being. The old recipe is 
milk,boiled potatoes and corn meal stirred in with the potatoes when 
warm. This kind of food will give development to the stomach. 
To be a successful feeder this important point, when animals are 
young, cannot be overlooked. I believe it is acknowledged by 
all who have attempted the breeding and feeding of swine, that to 
arrive at a correct rule or principle upon which one can rely to 
feed breeding sovrs, and a safe plan to establish for the growth of 
a pig to four months old is the secret of success. My own opinion 
is that when a man understands this part of agricultural science, 
he can graduate at any of our agricultural schools in this depart¬ 
ment. 
Every one has noticed the immense difference that often exists 
between animals in regard to the progress they make upon the 
same sort of food. You may have two hogs shut up iu the same 
pen, getting food and treatment precisely the same, and one will 
remain obstinately lean while the other will get as round and as 
fat as an alderman. It is evident there is a great waste of food on 
the one compared with the other. Both may consume the very 
same quantity, but they differ greatly in the way they dispose of 
it. The object of the farmer is to convert the products of his farm, 
the slops of the house and the dairy into pork for profit, and what 
he wants, is a hog that will do it to the best advantage. He may 
have a good hog or mill for that purpose, but he does not under¬ 
stand feeding it. My experience has taught me a lesson, and not 
a cheap one either, that there is an irresistible craving for some¬ 
thing besides the inevitable corn which is too concentrated and too 
