Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1916 — DIMENSIONS OF A HOG [ARTICLE]

DIMENSIONS OF A HOG

What is the best way to measure a hog? This is a questioE asked by hog raisers who have read descriptions of hogs and wish to compare them with their own hogs. To get the length measure from between the eyes when the head is down to the root of the tail. The heart girth is the distance around the body in a perpendicular plane just back of the fore legs. The loin girth is taken in the same way at a point just in front of the hind legs. The circumference of the hog is measured at the largest place in the hind leg between the hock and the pastern joint The height can be conveniently taken by placing the hog beside a building on a level floor and placing a board horizontally across his back and touching \the building, marking the lower side of the board on the building. The height is then easily obtained by measuring from this mark to the floor. Unless a man has an exceptionally good memory he should not set himself w m a liar. e