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Show CLEANLINESS IN FEEDING Feeding Floors Which Are Kept Free From Dust or Mud Are Indispensable. BY A. D. BVRHAN8, The hog responds as quickly to cleanliness and caro as any farm animal. ani-mal. Not long since I was greatly impressed with the lack of sanitary conditions around the yards and houses of ii man who had been growing hogs more or less successfully for ten years. His feeding troughs were foul with decayed food. The floors were damp and Ill-smelling and the yards were damp and full of mud holes that good drainage would have prevented. All fixtures in a hog house should be movable. It is advantageous to have tho troughs where they may be washed or scalded out twice each week, at least. Foul troughs aro good breeding breed-ing places for parasites that may be taken into tho stomach and converted Into worms. Damp floors may be overcome if the houe is well aired and windows enough are in lto let the sunshlno In on the floors. Do not slop the swill into the bed-ding bed-ding or on the floors at feeding time. Shake tho bedding up In each per dally and toss out tho dampest of It. Never allow dust to accumulate or the partitions and pens used for foe It is always Injurious to the hog health If you are in the habit c feeding hogs corn scattered in the mu or dust of a dry yard, build a sma feeding floor and use It. Co into any herd that Is fed In th dust from throw n-down corn and yc will hear much wheezing and cough Ing. This is bud on all hog and esp chilly those kept for breeding pur poses. Set your feeding floor off the groun four to six Inches and build It solidi of good timber. Around the whole ed nail a 2x4, as shown In the lllustratlo This prevents lota of shelled or e-corn e-corn being pushed off into the dirt ai dust. Sweep off the floor before fecdln Xcvcr overlook this. A floor of th kind can be used for feeding alfalfa clover as hay or steamed. The herd of Berkshlres on tho flo in the picture aro eating chopped fulfa that has been steamed somowli and sparsely sprinkled with chopp corn and oats. Tho alfalfa is cut fon Inch lengths and soaked in a ban or tank which has a jet of steam In shooting up from tho bottom. This does not boll tho alfalfa, b Juat heats It enough to mako tho coar stems tender and the tender ones me toothsome. It is lifted from the tank on a fe. and allowed to drain well, when It thrown upon the feeding floor. Pi never leave much of it. For bro sows Jt makes an ideal feed, keepli them in good flesh but not fat enou, to hurt their breeding proclivities Injure their ease of farrowing. 1 sure to feed it to them on clean flooi |