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All through the summer the pigs can be fed slops to good advantage, but it 
uld be kept clean and sweet. ; 
Food must be selected for specifie results. No breed can convert fattening 
food into juicy, lean meat. No animal when fed an excess of fat-formers can 
clahge part of those into bone-builders and muscle-makers. Do not stint the 
oy of your breeding herd to avoid fat, but choose such foods as are rich in 
€sh-formers, bone, muscle and nerve materials, and use sparingly starchy foods, 
Such as have a tendency to produce too much fat. There is a great difference 
tween flesh and fat. 
sho 
ed need not necessarily be cooked—scalding it will do. It is certainly the 
east food, except perhaps potatoes, for producing pork. Never sell barley of 
aH erate quality to buy Indian meal. Grind your barley, feed it to your hogs 
The secret of makin money by pigs is not to rush into them, nor out of 
phen, Never keep too Sea never keep too few. The fault in the past has 
fee that feeders ran in to buy when hogs were dear, and stayed at home when 
Wane produced from an ordinary well-shaped country sow and a thoroughbred 
'k boar. The services of this latter class of animal can easily be had 
by ell, legey hog way ignorantly thought to deceive the buyer who purchases 
Suess,” but does not deceive the factory weighmaster. 
ing No matter how low prices may be, if it does not pay to feed pigs it certainly 
Raine Hot pay to starve them. If you cannot afford to keep a breeding sow 
‘aha get two or three of your neighbours to join you, and divide the expense 
Can } © progeny, A good sow is easily fed, and is the best savings bank you 
Store wv: ‘he day you buy is the day you sell. If you pay too much for the 
foe You will want (but will not get) too much for the bacon pig. _ Where a 
that ct Sow is kept, young pigs can be produced for 1s. a week of their age— 
Wh IS to say, eight weeks, 8s.; ten weeks, 10s. ; and so on, up to twelve Ve 
Dig Should the feeder pay practically double this for? One great secret of 
they lng is: When the pigs are high in price, do not lose your head an 
Youy 7 Cur money away ; when pigs are low, do not lose your head and throw 
"Pigs away. 
