Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1862-08-30
Breeding and Rearing Pigs.

we condeEse the folleWlng hlntS on
this subject from an article contribu-
ted to the american Agricultural by a
subscriber in Sehuylkill county, Pa:
In selecting my breeding hogs ]
always pick out the best shaped, most
thriving boar pig to keep over for a
breeder. For a SOW | select a healthy
shoat, we'll shaped, but thin and lank,
in preference to fat and sleek one
my reasons for this are, that the lean
show will produce more pigs, and raise
them better than one in high order
the sleek one converts all her food
into fat and flesh for her own sides
and back, while in the lean one it is
converted into food for the young
This rule is applicable to ali animals.
A COW which shows every rib when in
milk, will bring forth larger and better
calves, aid Give more and better milk
than the one that always looks Ia
enough for the slaughter. Ny expe-
rience fully sustains my theory. Ny
mode of raising hogs which are inten-
ded to be kept over, is to have them
pigged about the latter part of August
or first of September, and after allow
ing them to run with the sowfor FIVE
or six weeks, confne them in sepa-
rate pen. When first taken from the
SOW they should be fed from six to
eight times a day, or else they will
fall off in flesh, and it will take them
weeks to recruit. Their usual allow
ance at first should be about pint of
milk to each pig, and in order to fa-
cilitate the properly attending to them
the milk barrel should be kept stand,
ing very near the pen, from which it
can be dipped with pail with very
little trouble, being replenished night
and morning with fresh skinned milk
from the dairy. The quanty of each
pig should be gradually increased
each day according to tho growth of
the pigs, until they have attained to
the age of three or four months, when
a regular allowance should be made to
them; and the number Of times of
feeding may be diminished. At this
time in the pigs life little grain fed
night aud morning will not be torown
away upon him; little oats or rye,
if the pig is in healthy condition,
followed by about pint of corn, which
may be subsequently increased to a
quart. this addition of grain will tell
amszingly in the growth Of the animal,
as well as have a tendency to keep
him im such a condition that when
'sfattening time" arrives he viii be
ready for the knife much sooner than
a hog fed only on slopS without the
daily quota of corn, to say nothing of
the saving of a good deal more corn
than has been used up to this time in
the feeding. The milk from the dairy
when weakened by the slops from the
kitchen, should occasionally through
the week be enriched by the addition
of rye bran.
Sly and Bedding. The pen in which
hogs are kept should consist of two
apartments-a covered and an uncoV'
cred one. An excellent manner in
which to construct a pig sty, is to
erect two>story frame building, hav-
ing part of the under story boarded
off for a place in which to. keep the
slop barrel, reserving the rest for a
dry pen for the hogs, and having pen
constructed outside, and communica-
ting with this covered one. The feed
ing trough should be in the outside pen.
In this manner, if the pigs are given
suficiency of rye straw in the inside
pen, and the outside one is kept we'll
supplied with the butts of corn stalks,
they will not only make an immense
amount of manure, but will keep them
selves white and clean, thus refuting
the assertion of the 6lthiness which is
continually flung at them. In the
upper part of this pen should be kept
! litter for the bedding of the hogs; or
a part of it may be partitioned off for
hennery.
I have adopted what I consider a
very good as we'll as economical plan
of getting the upper part of my hog
building filed with good litering ma
terial. 1t is this: When hauling in
my corn fodder cut off about two feet
of the hard, dry butts, which the cattle
cannot eat, and have them bound into
small bundles and slowed away in the
upper part of the hog house, to be used
as required. These corn butts when
thrown into the outside pen are SO torn
and trampled up that they are con-
verted into good lasting manure, which
has not it's superior on the farm, and
which would be almost entirel y lost if
fed to the cattle in the fields, etc.
Fattening.-When fattening time
comes, 1 generally commence by feed>
ing the "nubbins," and after two or
three week, follow them with shelled
corn. This l always feed boiled, boil
ing in the morning what is required
during the day. and at night what is
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