The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-07-17

Summer il the time to make pork. Making 1t
in winter is much like running boat against
wind and tide it requires too much food to keep
up tho animal heat. If hogs have plenty Of
grass in summer, and about half the corn they
will eat, they win fatten rapidly; and my belief
is that three pounds Of pork can be made of less
grain in this way than one pound can be in Geld
weather with hog in close pen. The grass is
cooling and loosening, and counteracts the fever
ish properties OF the corn.-Hogs will never
melt in summer, 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 a very cooling
drink, and almost indispensable to raising young
pigs. But very little corn and no corn meal
should be fed 70 young pigs before they are four
months old. The effects Of corn and raw corn
meal on young pigs are these: The pigs at first
will be costive then they will scour. They will
begin to rub against every thing that they can
rub against that will rub their hair eff Their
skin will have red and dry appearance. Adry,
black scurf viii begin to form on them, and the
more corn and meal they eat the poorer they will
get. The best thing that pig can do in this
condition is to give him thorough washing in
warm water or sour milk; sour milk is best.
Coarse -four or midllngs from rye or wheat, when
made into Q thin drinksble slop with milk, is the
best feed for young pigs, except bread and milk.
Bread Is good tor very young pigs because it is
leavened. Food has to ferment before it will di.
gest, aud if fed to young pig before fermented,
it will overtask the stomach and spoil him. Let
tuee is good for young pigs. 1t will stop the
scours ON them. The middlings should be put
with the milk 1t night, after the feeding has been
done, and allowed TO be in the milk through the
night, never allowing the swll tub to get quite
empty, always leaving q 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 q time than will be eaten up
at once. SloP feed will make larger hogs than
dry feed. After the pigs get to be three or four
months old, their food can be made much strong
err but pig will not bear much strong food un.
til it begins to change from pig to hog, which
will be known by his voice. In the West, where
they are raised on q large scale but one litter
should be raised from in year.-The fall
litter will require too much care from 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 of
ten. New milk once day will keep them from
securing Sour milk il better than new milk.
New will first make the pig costive, then scour
him. 1t will eurdle in his stomach, but sour
milk will not. The late fall pigs should suck as
long as they will, and the sows should be fed on
warm feed aud fed often. The slop can be warm.
ed by pouring hot water into the swill tub. A
breeding SOW should nveer be fed much dry corn.
She will get foundered upon it aud spoiled
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