The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-07-17
FARM AND HO USEHOLD.
Pigs in Summer.

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making it in winter is much like running
Il boat against wind and tide; it re-
quires too much feed to keep up the an
imal heat If hogs have plenty of grass
in summer and about half the corn
they will eat, they will 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 cold
weather with a hog in 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 &C
cess 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 to 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
costivc; then they will scour. They
will begin to rub against everything
they can rub agcinst, 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 con-
dition is to give him thorough wash
ing in warm water or sour milk; sour
milk is best
Coarse -four or middlings from rye or
slop with milk, is the best feed for young
pigs, except bread and milk. Bread is
good for very young pigs because it is
lcvcned. Food has to fermcnt before
it will digest, and if fed to young pig
before fermcnted, it will Over-task the
stomach and spoil him. Lettuce is
good for young pigs. 1t will stop the
scours in them. The middlngs 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
allowing the swill tub to get quite emp
ty, always leaving little in the bot
tom for yeast. The swill should never
be permitted to get stale. Slop feed
should be fed often, and never more fed
at time then 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 stronger; but pig will not bear
much stronger food until it begins to
change from a 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 Il SOW in year The fall litter
will require too much care for the far
mcr 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 wcaned from four
to six weeks DID, and fed on clear sour
milk for two or three weeks after wcan-
ing, and fed often. New milk once Il
day will keep them from securing
Sour milk is better than new milk
New milk will first make the pig cos
tive, then sconr him. 1t will curdle 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 slop feed, and fed often
The slop can be warmed by pouring
hot water into the swill tub. A breed
ing SOW should never be fed much dry
corn She will get foundercd on it and
| spoiled.
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