Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21

less grain in this way than one pound can
be in cold weather with hog in a close
pen. The grass is cooling and loosening,
and counteracts the feverish properties of
the corn. Hogs will never melt in sum-
mer, however fat, if they can have access
to water and mud to lie in. Mud is very
bad for hogs in cool or cold weather. 1t
absorbs too much animal heat. Milk is
very cooling drink and almost indispensa-
BILE to raising young pigs. But very little
corn and no corn meal should be fed to
young pigs before they are four months
old. The effects of corn and raw corn
meal on young pigs are these: The pigs
will first be costive, then they will scour.
They viii begin to rub against everything
they can rub against, that will rub their
hair off. Their skin will have red and
dry appearance A dry, black scurf will
begin to form on them; and the more of
the corn and meal they eat, the poorer
they will get. The best thing that can be
done for pig in this condition, is to give
him a thorough washing in warm rain
water or sour milk sour milk is best.
Coarse flour or middlings from rye or
wheat, when made into a thin drinkable
slop with milk, is the best feed for young
pigs, except bread and milk. Bread is
good for very young pigs, because it has
been leavened. Food has to ferment be-
fore it will digest, and if fed to young
pig before fermented, it will overtask his
stomach and spoil him. Lettuce is good
for young pigs 1t will stop the scours
in them. The middlings should be
put with the milk at night, after the
feeding has been done, and allowed to be
in the milk through the night, never al
lowing the swill tub to get quite empty,
always leaving little in the bottom for
yeast The swill should never be permitted
to get stale. Stop feed should be fed often,
and never more fed at time than will be
eaten up at once Stop feed will make
larger hogs than dry feed. After the pigs
get to be from three to four months old,
their food can be made stronger, but pig
will not bear much strong food until he
begins to change from pig into a hog,
which will be known by his voice. In the
West, where hogs are raised on large
scale, but one litter should be raised from
a sow in year, and the SOW should have
them in the month of May or June. The
sows should run to grass, and may be fed on
corn. The pigs should suck them as long
as they will. In this way the pigs, require
but little care, and they get so that they
Will WlHtcT well OH GOTH. NOuo DuG
breeders should try to get more than one
litter from SOW in year. The fall litter
will require too much care for the farmer.
One litter can be got in April and another
in September or October following, from
one sow, but the spring pigs will have to
be weaned from four to six weeks old, and
fed on clear sour milk for two or three
weeks after weaving, and fed often. New
milk once day will keep them from scour-
ing. Sour milk is better than new milk.
New milk will first make the pig costive,
then scour him. Tt will curdle in his
stomach, but sour milk will not. The late
fall pigs should suck the sows as long as
they will, and the sows should be fed on
warm Stop feed, and fed often. The slop
can be warmed by pouring hot water into
the swill tub A breeding SOW should
never be fed much dry corn. She will get
foundered on it and spoiled. Prairie
Farmer.