Elementary agriculture with practical arithmetic elementaryagricu00hatc Year: 1907 THE STOCK ON THE FARM 93 There is notliing bad enough to say of a ''scrub' hog. It certainly requires as much care as a genuine ''porker.' What does it bring on the market? Not half what a well-bred pig of the same ae-e will brino-. If more evidence of the truth of the two propositions stated at the beginning of this chapter is needed it will be found in the answers to the practical problems which follow. WELL BRED PIGS. Fertilizer in Stoeh Food.—One thino- must not be lost sight of. however. Hay and grain
Elementary agriculture with practical arithmetic elementaryagricu00hatc Year: 1907 THE STOCK ON THE FARM 93 There is notliing bad enough to say of a ''scrub' hog. It certainly requires as much care as a genuine ''porker.' What does it bring on the market? Not half what a well-bred pig of the same ae-e will brino-. If more evidence of the truth of the two propositions stated at the beginning of this chapter is needed it will be found in the answers to the practical problems which follow. WELL BRED PIGS. Fertilizer in Stoeh Food.—One thino- must not be lost sight of. however. Hay and grain fed to stock are not entirely wasted. In a ton of hav worth $6 there is at least S3 worth of manure, if it is carefully saved and returned to the land. But $? in value has actually disappeared wlicn the hay has been fed. 'Ten dollars' worth of oats, or corn, or barley, fed to stock, will give in return $ w(^rth of manure. Below is given a table slicwing the actual cash value of the ma-
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