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‘ SWINE ENTERPRISE 
Two acres of good red clover may supply five to ten sows and 
their litters with an abundance of green feed for two months. It 
is better to supply too large an area than to pasture it so closely 
as to kill the crop. When crops are growing thriftily ten or more 
shoats per acre may be fed well. 
Best Feeds for Breeding Stock.—Sows producing milk for 
their litters should be given much milk-producing feed instead of 
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Fic. 225.—Young gilts on rape and sweet clover forage in June. (New Jersey Station.) 
corn. A good proportion of milk-producing feeds should be sup- 
plied. Pasturage is the cheapest and the best. This should be 
supplemented with wet feeds such as slops made from middlings 
and water, or skimmilk. The danger of feeding corn alone is that 
the sows, either before or after farrowing, will be too fat or fail 
to supply milk, and will not have sufficient mineral matter. Corn 
in limited quantities may be used for sows and litters having 
plenty of leguminous pasturage. Whenever corn is used in their 
ration, supplement it with skimmilk, with mill feeds rich in protein 
or with tankage. 
Mineral Feeds.—Growing pigs and breeding stock require an