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Show Clean Ground for Pigs "I wanted to see whether there was anything to this clean-ground system of raising hogs," said Axel Bergsten of Riley county, Kansas, in Successful Success-ful Farming. "So a year ago 1 separated sepa-rated my brood sows into two bunches. One half I left in the lot where I have raised hogs every year and the other half I moved down in the alfalfa field. "I fixed up an automatic waterer but It didn't work very well, so 1 had to carry water, but It was worth while. The' pigs out on the clean ground grew right away from those farrowed in the old lots and at five months of age were from 50 to 75 pounds heavier. Next year every sow I have will farrow on clean ground, as I am fully convinced that it is the only way to raise hogs." |