The Hog Industry: Selection, Feeding, and Management – Recent American Experimental Work – Statistics of Production and Trade

[Partial Contents:] Selection, Feeding, and Management (Conditions Suitable for Hog Raising – The Profitableness of Hog Raising – Houses, Inclosures, and Fences – Selection of Breeding Stock – Feed and Management – Sanitation in the Hog Lot) --- Recent American Experimental Work in Pork Production (Introduction – Principles of feeding – Physical Character of Feeds – Relation of Bulky Feed to Length of Alimentary Canal – Function of Bulk in the Feed – Chemical Composition – Water Content – Energy – Relation of Feed to the Animal Body – Digestibility of Feed - The Nutritive Ration - Preparation of Feed and Methods of Feeding – Corn and Corn Substitutes – Commercial By-Products – Condimental Feeds – Dairy By-Products – Pasture and Pasture Substitutes – Breed Tests – Influence of Feed on the Carcass – Feeding for Prime Bacon – Feeding to Harden the Fat of Pork – Chemical Composition of Carcasses of Pigs - Suckling Pigs on a Skim Milk Diet – Miscellaneous Experiments and Information) --- Statistics of Production and Trade (The Census Returns – Trade Statistics [The Domestic Trade – The Foreign Trade – Miscellaneous Trade Statistics]).