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| Swine Breeding | |
| Selection of a Breed | p. 13 |
| Type of Swine | |
| Fat or Lard Hog | |
| Bacon Hog | |
| Production of Type | |
| Location | |
| Color of Swine | |
| Advantages In Marketing | |
| Size, Prolificacy and Quality | p. 23 |
| Size and Age of Hogs | |
| Rate of Growth | |
| Total Feed Eaten and Cost per Pound Gain | |
| Feed Eaten per 100 Pounds Live Weight | |
| Maturity | |
| Prolificacy | |
| Quality | |
| Breeds, Principal Characteristics | p. 30 |
| Bacon Breeds | |
| Tamworths | |
| Large Yorkshires | |
| Breeds of the Fat or Lard Type | |
| Berkshire | |
| Chester White | |
| Duroc-Jersey | |
| Poland-China | |
| Hampshire | |
| Cheshire | |
| Essex | |
| Other Breeds | |
| Judging Swine | p. 51 |
| Fat or Lard Type and Standard of Excellence | |
| Fat or Lard Hog for Breeding and Standard of Excellence | |
| Fat or Lard Hog for Market | |
| Bacon Type | |
| Standard of Excellence for Bacon Hog for Breeding | |
| Standard of Excellence for Bacon Hog for Market | |
| Establishing a Breeding Herd | p. 68 |
| The Grade Herd | |
| The Pure-Bred Herd | |
| Public Sale | |
| Private Sale | |
| Bred Sows | |
| The Herd Boar | |
| Additional Herd Specimens | |
| Requirements for Success | |
| Origin of the Breeds | p. 74 |
| English Breeds | |
| The Wild Boar | |
| Sua Indica | |
| Production of Breeds | |
| American Breeds | |
| Development op the Breeds | p. 78 |
| Tamworth | |
| Large Yorkshire | |
| Old Yorkshire | |
| Leicester | |
| Small Yorkshire | |
| Method of Procedure | |
| Pedigree of Development of Large Yorkshire | |
| Berkshire | |
| Chester White | |
| Original Foundation Stock | |
| Todd's Improved Chester | |
| Ohio Improved Chester | |
| Duroc-Jersey | |
| Durocs and Jersey Reds | |
| Poland-China | |
| Origin of Poland-China Foundation Stock | |
| The Poland Hog | |
| Russian Hog of the United States | |
| The Byfield | |
| The China Hog | |
| The Irish Pig | |
| Irish Grazier | |
| Berkshires: the Development of the Breed | |
| The Hampshire (Thin Rind) | |
| Cheshire or Jefferson County Swine of New York | |
| Essex Swine | |
| Large Blacks and Lincolne | |
| Methods of Breeding | p. 101 |
| Pure-Bred Swine | |
| Out Crossing | |
| Line Breeding | |
| Close Breeding | |
| Inbreeding | |
| Character of Offspring | |
| Grading | |
| Cross Breeding | |
| Swine Breeding | |
| Swine Feeding | |
| What Is a Hog? | p. 117 |
| Water | |
| Protein | |
| Fat | |
| Ash or Mineral Matter | |
| Sources and Character or Building Material | p. 123 |
| Food Nutrients | |
| Coefficients of Digestibility | |
| Protein | |
| Carbohydrate | |
| Fat or Ether Extract | |
| Mineral Mattel | |
| Dry Feeds | |
| Classification and Composition of Feeds | |
| Water | |
| Air | |
| The Common Practice of Swine Feeding | p. 135 |
| Feeds | |
| Water | |
| Pasture | |
| Summer Feeding | |
| Winter Feeding | |
| Hogging Down Corn | |
| Work of Experiment Stations | |
| The Wolff-Lehmann Feeding Standard | p. 143 |
| Nutritive Ratio | |
| Requirement of Nutrients | |
| The Standard and the Pig | |
| Results from Use of Standard | |
| Method of Feeding Developed by the Author | p. 146 |
| Factors in Feeding | |
| Maintenance Requirement | |
| Factor of Waste | |
| Feed Available for Making Gains | |
| Requirement of Nutrients | |
| Water Requirement | |
| Protein Requirement | |
| Carbohydrate Requirement | |
| Ether Extract Requirement | |
| Mineral Matter Requirement | |
| The Pig as a. Machine | |
| Variety in Ration | |
| The Appetite of the Pig | |
| Influence of Environment | |
| Influence of Previous Generations | |
| Feeding too Much and too Little | |
| Large Gains and Economical Gains | |
| Selection of Feeds | |
| Method of Calculating Rations | |
| Method of Procedure | |
| Compounding Rations | |
| Grinding Grain | |
| Effect on the Distribution of Protein | |
| Effect on Palatability | |
| Effect on Water Supply | |
| Hard and Small Seeds | |
| Soaking Feeds | |
| Cooking Feeds | |
| Effect on Compounding the Ration | |
| Effect on Variety and Protein | |
| Effect on Water Supply | |
| Changes in Rations | |
| Effect on Coefficient of Digestibility | |
| Effect oh Protein Metabolism | |
| Effect on Habit | |
| Giving the Pig Its Feed | |
| The Feed Trough | |
| The Feed Yard | |
| Individual Feeding | |
| The Number of Feeds per Day | |
| Influence on Factor of Waste | |
| Results | |
| Feeding the Herd and the Pigs | p. 198 |
| Feeding Sows | |
| Gilts | |
| Old Sows | |
| Feeding the Boar | |
| Feeding the Pigs Before Weaning | |
| Feeding at a Separate Trough | |
| Feeding with the Dam | |
| Management | |
| The Breeding Season | p. 209 |
| Number of Litters per Year | |
| When to Breed | |
| Show Hogs | |
| Market Requirements | |
| Pork Hogs | |
| Age of Gilts | |
| Condition of Sire and Dam | |
| Prolificacy | |
| Useful Age of Sire and Dam | |
| The Sire | |
| The Dam | |
| Breeding the Sow | |
| Farrowing Time | p. 218 |
| Feeding the Sow Before and After Farrowing | |
| The Litter | |
| How Many Pigs per Sow | |
| Handling the bow and Litter | |
| Black Teeth | |
| Identification Marks | |
| Ear Marks | |
| Castration | |
| A Normal Pig | |
| Ruptured Pigs | |
| Spaying | |
| Recording | |
| Herd Records | |
| Weaning the Pigs | p. 236 |
| Self-Weaning | |
| Removing a Part of the Litter | |
| Removing All the Litter | |
| Prolificacy and Milking Qualities | |
| Shelter for Swine | p. 241 |
| The Large Hog House | |
| Serviceableness | |
| Sanitation | |
| Plan of the House | |
| Interior View | |
| The Floors | |
| Cost of Hog House | |
| Location as to Pasture | |
| Hog House and Pastures | |
| Use of the Hog House | |
| Individual Hog Houses | |
| A-Shaped Cots, Front and Rear | |
| Large Col | |
| A Portable Panel Fence | |
| Method of Construction | |
| Tuberculosis | p. 267 |
| Prevalence of the Disease | |
| Source of Infection | |
| Skim Milk | |
| Country Slaughter Houses | |
| Other Means of Infection | |
| Duration of the Disease | |
| Kind of Pigs Affected | |
| Method of Handling a Tubercular Herd | |
| Hog Cholera | p. 275 |
| Cause of the Disease | |
| Manner of Spreading the Disease | |
| Prevention of the Disease | |
| Government Hog Cholera Serum | |
| Preparation, Use and Curative Properties of the Serum | |
| Objections to the Serum Method of Treatment | |
| Lice | p. 286 |
| Means of Combating | |
| Mud Wallow | |
| Water Wallow | |
| Rubbing Post | |
| Rubbing and Spraying with Oil | |
| Dipping Tank | |
| Other Ailments or Swine | p. 294 |
| Worms: Their Cure and Prevention | |
| Scours | |
| Overfeeding | |
| Sudden Changes | |
| Treatment | |
| Contagious Form | |
| Rickets | |
| Coughing | |
| Rooting | |
| Thumps | |
| Marketing Swine | p. 302 |
| Demand and Supply of Hogs | |
| Handling and Shipping Hogs | |
| Selling Hogs on the Market | |
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