Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-11-14
FATTING SWINE.

poAheiASuLS Vi your IdTlll, nave SONIC lmlne-
diately putup, so that when it shall be time
to put your hogs to fatten, the pens may be
ready for their reception. The pens should
have feeding and sleeping apartment
with yard attached to each. In each pen
there should be a rubbing post. The sur
face of each yard should bo formed into
basin-like form, over whicha bushel of plas-
ter should be spread, and then covered sew
eral inches in depth with woods mold, marsh
( mud, river creek mud, the earth from
headlands, ditch or road scapingS, weeds,
! DC, all of which materials during the fat
! teuing season, will be converted into good
manure; for there are no better manufaetur-
ers Of manure than hogs Without enter
ing into any detail of the constituent Gle
mcnts, we would say, that it is considered in
tho view Of chemists, superior to that of the
COW, and this estimate is borne out in prac-
tice by the closest agricultural observers.
When theory and practice both arrive at the
same conclusion, we may be sure that this
opinion is very nearly founded in truth.
In filling the yard of hog pen with the
substances named, every few inches of the
matter, as it is being placed in and spread
on the yard, should be busted over with
plaster, or with pulverized charcoal, to pre-
vent the escaped of the ammonia. Occasion
ally, stable and COW yard manure should be
thrown over the surface, and be treated toI
sprinklings of plaster or pulverized charcoal.
To encourage the hogs to root, every few
days grains of corn should be distributed
over the yards-in consuming and search
ing for the corn, the hogs root up and init
mately mix all the substances together, and
thereby assure an equality in the value of
the compound-a matter of great consider
alton in such bodies. If you provide your
hogs with the rough material named, each
hog during the fattening season will make
two loads Of good compost manure. To show
the value of the urine of the fattaning hog,
we will remark, that it is estimated byl
chemists that it is as rich in the elements of
vegetable productions, as is that of human
urine, and that in every pint of the latter
there are the elements Of pint of wheat.
If this be true, and we believe that it is, we |
would ask, is it not worth while for agricul-
turalists to put themselves to the trouble of
saving so fruitful fertilizer as hog-manure,
solid as well as liquid?
TREATMENT OF Hoes WHEN TAKEN UP-l
All hogs when first taken up for fattening
should receive three or four doses of -four Of
Of -four sulphur, and as many of coperas, in
doses of tablespoon, at intervals of two
days apart. These should be given them
in messes of bran or meal Such doses
serve to cool tho blood, strengthen the diges-
tive organs, and remove those worms which
sometimes attack the kidneys. affT
As TO THEIR FooD.-Their food for the
first two or three weeks should be pumpkins,
apples, roots and other vegetables, which
would be the better Of being cooked and
mixed with bran, or meal of some kind; the
latter being increased from day to day, grad
ually, so that when the hogs come to have
corn or meal altogether the change may not
be iniuriously felt by them. Whether corn
or corn meal be fed to the hogs, great
saving will be affected by having either
cooked, and il is immaterial whether it be !
steamed or boiled. A saving may be af-
fected by cooking. of from I5 70 20 per cent. |
by grinding into meal and cooking, of 80
per cent. a7 is5 y N-s-2tA
MATERIAL FoRTHE Hoe-PEE YARD.--Ai |
trough should be kept in the yard, at all
times supplied with charcoal. wood ashes,
rotten wood and coarse salt; these substan-
ees keep the tone of the hogs stomachs in
order, encourage their appetites, promote
digestion, and keep the animals in health.
TINE OF FEEDINe.-It is all important
that the hogs be regularly fed, at stated
hours, three times day, say morning early,
at noon, and Just before sun down.
THEIR SLEEPING APARTMENTs.-The
should be supplied with fresh leaves or straw
twice week, so that BY their comfortable
bedding they NAV be induced to devote a
considerable portion of their time to sleep
being great promoter of fat.
TINE OF TAXING Up Hoes to FATrEN.-
The precise time to take up hogs to fatten,
cannot be well stated: the time must de-
pend on the supply of mast in the woods;
while that supply is amply sufficient to keep
the hogs in a growing state-while they in
crease in size and fat, they can very safely I
be pernittcd-to to remain in the woods; the
time for removal to the pens, then, is when
the hogs, bytheir appearance, begin to show
an insufficient supply of foOd.-Americaa
Farmer.