. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. te their share to health,vigor, and rapid gains. If pasture is available,turn the mother and her young into it; littleof any kind of food other than good pasturegrass will be needed. The writer has followed a plan for grazinghogs that has proved very successful. Eightone-half acre lots are provided, the lots beingthree rods in width and correspondingly August one lot is seeded to rye, whichmakes good winter grazing; in September thesecond lot is seeded to rye, which also makesgood winter grazing ; in October the remain
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. te their share to health,vigor, and rapid gains. If pasture is available,turn the mother and her young into it; littleof any kind of food other than good pasturegrass will be needed. The writer has followed a plan for grazinghogs that has proved very successful. Eightone-half acre lots are provided, the lots beingthree rods in width and correspondingly August one lot is seeded to rye, whichmakes good winter grazing; in September thesecond lot is seeded to rye, which also makesgood winter grazing ; in October the remaininglots are seeded to rye for spring grazing. Thefirst rye lot is succeeded by cowpeas, plantedas soon as spring will permit, and then throughthe spring and early summer the other lotsfollow on in rapid succession with co\\ this system winter, spring, and summergrazing are available, and provided with littlelabor, trouble, or expense. The great point in the management ofyoung pigs is to keep them growing from theday of birth to the day they are slaughtered. Mother Hog and Little Ones or sold. If thrifty and active they will growrapidly; if strong and vigorous they will bemore likely to throw off disease if it attacksthem, or, what is better, never get it at all. THE PIG 207 Our best hog raisers give their animals thefull freedom of the fields as much as is pos-sible, that they may obtain the grasses theylike, the exercise they need, and the cieanh-ness that means so much for health and \ must remember that the prevention ofdisease is safer than remedies, and especiallyis this true of the hog. Clean pens, exercise,pasture grazing, and variety in food are all-important in successful management. The hog, if we regard the great number ofpeople who receive food from its flesh, occu-pies, it is seen, a most important place in thedomestic economy of all civilized flesh is wholesome and nutritive, andfrom its ready reception of salt it is betterfitted iov
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