Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-11-12
MANAGEMENT OF PIGS.
l"Pigs is decent people. "-DiLy Jones.
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Messrs. GAYLORD g. TUcKER-The man
agernent of fine bred pigs is eliciiing more
attention at this day throughout this country
and England. than at any former period. All
the essays | have noticed on the subject have
passed very indefinitely over what conceive
to be the most difficult period Of the animals
existence, and one through which he seldom
or never carries all his good points-which il
that OF leaving the sow.
The cause appears to me to be this: sow's
milk is much more rich and nutritious than
cows, consequently little action or concoc-
ton of The stomach previous to being carried
into the circulation is required; for indeed
swine being carnivorous by nature, possess at
all times very weak digestive powers the
pig being taken from the sow or weaned BY
her, large quantities of cows milk is almost
invariably given as a substitute, perhaps three
paralyzes the little digestive powers the pig
previously possessed consequently his BEL
iy becomes distended far beyond its wonted
size, assuming disgusting bladdery or bel
lowsilke appearances; he grows poor, his
shoulders contract, his rump becomes peaked,
his back settles down back of his shoulder
blades, and then rounds up something like
hedge hogs, and to finish the picture, his
hair is no longer brilliant and glossy, but dry,
crumblng and dead, and often turning the
other way; not a vestige of that clean cylin-
drlcal form, which never fails to elicit admit
ration, where beauty has any attraction, re-
mains, nor does he ever eflectually recover
Blood and Pedigree no guards against
this. would hazard d few suggestions as a
remedy, not that l conceive them to be unex-
ceptionable, but that they may be the means
of drawing forth some that are, from Messrs.
Losing, Bement or Allen, or any other tai
ented gentlemen engaged in the cultivation
of ''the noble animal"
/ would have the pig 1ceN accustomed u
the trough before weaving, in place shut
off from the interference of his mother:
would feed him four or FIVE times per day
with boiled rice, and boiled potatoes mashed.
alternately, adding little milk from new
mich COW, all to be given in very small guam
titles, with trough kept clean; small guam
titles of beeves' liver, have a fine effect in
yielding nourishment profusely, is easy of de
gestion, without distending the belly unusu.
ally sleeps plucks are good, but should be
boiled.
No pig should be taken from it's mother
while she gives any milk at all but in cases
where 1t is unavoidable, it should be done by
degrees, the pig left to suck perhaps once a
day for some days with the above mentioned
feeding.
breed or blood, where the management has D.
lone been at fault l have witnessed so many
disastrous effects from tai ing pigs abruptly
from the SOW and sending them on long ia
tguing voyage, that have resolved that no
pig shall go from NE until it has passed tho
ordeal of weaving. Nor valuable pigs sent
any distance without some interested person
to attend them, who has had some experience
in their management.
There is another source which has often
proved fatal to whole litters Of pigs, which is
that of interfering " it'll the sows at the time
of their littering; the should have her
litter at the place of her own choosing it is
the only place at which she will he at home
it is idle to suppose that dictation or interfe-
renee of any kind can be of service to her
she is governed by an instinct infinitely sur
passing human calculation on this point.
never interfere further than to prevent all in
reference, and scarcely ever lost pig.
Il. STANDISH
albany, June 25, 1910.