The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-10-29
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F~ATFENIEa SWINE.

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appointments of your farm, have some
Immediately put up, so that when it
shall be time to pat your hogs up to
fatten, the pens may be ready for their
reception. The pens should have o
feeding and sleeping apartment, with a
sayard attached to each. In each pen
there should be a rubbing post. The
surface Of each yard should be formed
into a basin-like form. over which q
bushel Of plaster should be spread, and
then covered several inches in depth
with woods mould, marsh mud, river or
creek mud, the earth from hsadlands, or
ditch or road scrapings, weeds, &C., all
Of which materials during the fatteuing
season, will be converted into good ma,
nure; for there are no better manufac.
turers Of manure than hogs Without
entering into any detail Of the constitu-
-ent elements of hog manure, we would
sag, that it is considered, in the 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 a hog-pen with
the substances named, every few inches
eof the matter as it is being placed in
and spread on the yard, should lie busted
over with pastcr, or with pulverized
charcoal to prevent the escape of the
ammonia. Occasionally, stable and
coW yard manure should be thrown over
the surface, and be treated to sprinklings
of plaster or pulRerized charcoal. To
encourage the hogs to roOt, every few
days grains of corn should be distribu.
ted over the yards-iu consuming and
searching for the corn, the hogs root up
and intimately mix all the substances
together, and thereby assure an equality
IN the value of the Compounds mat
ter Of great consideration in such bodies,
If you provide your hogs with the rough
material named, each hog during the
fattening season will make two leads of
good compost manure. To show the
value of the urine of the fattening hog,
We will remark, that it is estimated by
chemists that it is as rich in the ele.
ments of vegetable productions, as is
that of human urine, and that in every
pint of til, latter there are the elements
of a pint of wheat. If this DO true,
and We believe that it is, we would ask,
is 1t not worth while for ag~riculturists
to put themselves to the trouble of saw
ing SO fruitful a fertilizer as hog.manure,
solid as well as liquid
TREATMENT OF Hoes WHEN TAKEN
UP.-All hogs when first taken up for
fatteniog, should receive three or four1
doses of -four of sulphur, and as many
of copperas, in doses of a Tablespoonful.
at intervals of two days apart. These
should be given them in messes of bran
or meal. Such doses serve to cool the
blood, strengthen the digestive organs,
aud remove those worms which some.
times attack the kidneys.
As To Their FooD.-Their food f,r
the first two or three weeks should be
pumpkins, apples, roots and other yeee-
tables, which would be the better of be.
ing cooked and mixed with bran. or
meal of some kind the latter being in
creased from day to day, gradually, SO
that when the hogs come to have corn
or meal altogether, the change may not
be injuriously felt by them.
Whether corn or corn meal be fed out
to the hogs, a great saving will be ef
feeted by having either cooked, and it is
inmaterial whether it be boiled or
steamed. A saving may besefected by
hooking of from Is to 20 per cent.-by
grinding into meal and cooking, of go
Per cent.
Materials FOR Hoe-PEN YAnp.
A trough should be kept in the yard, at
all times supplied with eli rycoaI, uood
ashes, gotten-s0ood and coarse sah these
substances keep the tone of the hogs
stomachs in order, encourage their ap.
promote digestion, and keep the
animals in health.
TINE OF FEEDINa.-It is all impor-
tant that the hogs be regularly fed, at .
stated hours. three times a day, say
morning early, at noon, and just before
Or THEIR SLEEPINe APARrMENrs-l
These should be supplied with fresh u,
caves or straw twice a week, SO that By :
heir comfortable bedding they may be d
Induced to devote a considerable portion
# their time to sleoping-sleep being q 1
,reat promoter of fat. =,
TIME OF TAKING UP Hoes TO FArrEN. 7
The precise time to take up hogs to
atten, cannot be well stated the time E
must depend upon the supply of mast
q the moods; while that supply is amply =
efficient to keep the hogs in a growing =
they increase in size and 4,
at, they can very safely be permitted
o remain in tho woods; the time for re. B
,oval to the pens, then. is when the ;,
ogs, By their appearance, begin to show