Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-09-07

lsoimilated and converted into " fat, |,
bone and muscle. = Now, if one quart
Of meal, BY being cooked, assumes the
bulk Of three quarts Of raw meal, it is
possible that Nr. Montsgue's pigs could
not eat sufficient quantity Of cooked
to any more than keep up their weight,
or not quite that, while being fed on
cooked food. But when fed-upon the
raw meal, in the same bulk, they OBJ
tanned about three times the nutriment. |
How much Of the uncooked meal was
assimilated, of course no one can tell,
but according to Mr.. Ms statement,
enough to produce . +" fair gain"
Some over two years ago there was
published some account Of MIR. s. M.
Clay's experiments in feeding boiled
corn, cooked meal, and dry shelled
corn to swine.
The results Of Mr.. C.'s experiments,
confirmed as they are by those of 9th
ers, show that the grinding Of corn in
to meal, and cooking the latter, will
make one bushel Of corn produce more
pork, Give weight than two would
do, and nearly as much as three would
if fed whole and uncooked.
The results of Mr.. Clay's expert
ments show that the number of pounds
of pork for each bushel of corn was as
follows
When fed in the form Of boiled corn 144 lbs.
cooked meal 163
dry corn s.
In the last vol. of Co. Gent. A. S:
Proctor, ILL.,, tells us (" how much corn
will make . pound of pork" His pig
ate in sixty-one days, 5 5-9ths bushels
corn at IS cents per bushel-$2 90,
and it made 43 lbs. dressed pork,
worth IL cents per pound, 81 So
or thirty-six cents more than the corn
fed to him was worth in the crib.
If the statements Of Mr.. Clay are
correct Mr.. Proctor actually lost about
two thirds Of the corn fed to the pig,
which might have been saved if tho
corn had been ground into meal and
cooked before having been fed. AS Mr..
P. is good in figures, We hope another
year he will experiment on two or more
pigs, feeding one lot on raw corn, and
the other on cooked meal, and CIPHER
out the results and have them published
in the Co. Gent.
Mr.. Proctor realized Al cents per
bushel for his corn-by way of set off
will show how much New Hamp-
shire farmer obtained per bushel for
his corn, fed to pair Of pigs. In the
Co. Gent. Of 23d Of April, 1857, W.
A. Hartman, of Warner, N. H., gives
the result Of his experience in s'fatten-
ing pigs" He says:
"Last spring I bought two pigs four
weeks old the 10Th of May, for So
They were taken home and fed on sour
milk for two or three weeks, giving
them no more than they could eat from
one feeding to the next, always sweep
ing out the trough at every feeding
In this way they will eat little at q
time, and as often as it is desired. At
the end Of two or three weeks I COM
menced stirring little meal without
heating, increasing the quantity as
long as the trough was found clean at
the next feeding. All the sour milk
they had was what remained of the
milk of two COWS after a family of six
persons had had their supply. Late in
the fall I used more than half cold wa
ter to mix their meal in. Together
with the sour milk, they ate FIVE or six
bushels Of small potatoes, and twenty
eight bushels Of corn meal. Th,y
were slaughtered when seven and half
months old, and weighed $50 pounds.
Thus you see, that for every bushel of
corn l received twenty three and four
seventies pounds Of pork. The smaller
pig was sold for ten cents per pound,
which would make both amount to
500. Deduct six dollars which was
paid for the pigs, and four dollars for
small potatoes and sour milk, and you
hrve $56 left, or 81 for every bushel
Of corn, not counting my labor any
thing"
The above statements of MIR. Harri-
man are perfectly reliable, and there
are many others here whose " luck" in
raising pigs is very similar.
Again in the Co. Gent. Of 10th inst,
you give the statement Of Jos. Greene,
Of Macedon, N. Y. He was very sue
cessful &C in feeding pigs on undi2uted
skim milk-or in its most concentrated
state-without any water thrown in"
If pig can eat three gallons Of milk
each day, would it add anything extra
to the growth of the pig if the milk
was diluted one-half with water-in
that case he would only eat six quarts
Of milk per diem. Hogs can't be fat
tened on water yet some farmers act
as though they thought there were
great fattening virtues in water. They
mash up their boiled potatoes, and a
little meal, and water enough to make
the whole mess about the consistency
Of egg nogg but this kind of swill is
better calculated to make pot-bellied
pigs, than it is fat porkers. One OF
my neighbors, who usually keeps four
Old hogs, says his swine are better
Judges Of how much liquid or drink
they need, than he is so he has two
troughs in the pen, one for milk, whey
Or water, and the other for dry meal. j
Instinct, or the cravings of natare, d.
rect how much and how often to eat
and drink. This man raises heavy,
solid and well fattened hogs. ;
In turning back to the Co. Gent. of
9th of Last Nnvemhar T Gna :,