Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-06-11
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pIGs IN sENMER.

snmmer is the time to make porki making
Il IN winter is much like running boat
against wind and tide il requires to much
food to keep up the animal heat II hogs
have pleoty of grass in summer. aud about
half the corn that they win eat, they viii fat
ten rapidly; and my belief is that three
pounds Of pork can be made from less grain
in this way thaa ore pound can be in cold
westher with hog iu q close pen. The
grass is cooling and loosening, aud counter
acts the feverish properties of the corn, Hogs
will never melt in summer, however fat, It
they can have access to wster and mud to ne
in. Mud is very bad for hogs in cool or cold
weather. 1t absorbs too much animal heat.
MIX is a very cooling drink aud almost in
dispensible for raising Young pigs. Bat very
little corn anG 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: Thepigs at first viii
be costire, then they viii seour. They viii
begin to rub against everything hat they can
rub against thst will rub their hair of. Their
skin viii have a red aad dry appearance. A
dry. black scurf viii form on them; and the
more Of the corn aud meal they eat, the
poorer they viii get The best thing that
can be done for q pig IL this condition, is to
give him a tborongh wishing in warm rain
water or sour Milk sour milk IS best Coarse
-four or middlings from rye OF wheat, when
made into a thin drinkable slop with milk.
is the best feed for yoaag pigs except bread
and milk. Bread is good for very young pigs
because il is leayened Food has 70 frFmen,
before it viii digest and if fed to young pig
before fermenting, it will orertask his stom-
ach and spoil him. Lettuce is good for young
pigs. Ii viii stop the scours in them. The
middlings should be put With the milk at
night, after the feeding has been doue. and
allowed 10 be in the milk through the night.
never allowing the swill tub to get quite
empty, always leaving little in the bottom
for yeast. The swill should never be allowed
TO get stale. Slop feed should be fed often,
and never more be fed at a line than will be
eaten up az once Slop feed will make larg-
er hogs than dry feed. After the pigs get to
be three or four months old, their food can
be made stronger, but a pig viii not bear
much strong food until be begins to change
from a pig into a hog, which viii 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 aud 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 viii. In this way the
pigs require but little care, and they get age
so that they viii winter well ca corn. None
but breeders should try to get more than cne
litter from SOW in year. The fall litter
viii 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 viii have to be wean-
ed from four to six weeks old, sud fed on
clear sour milk for two or three weeks after
weaving, aud fed often. New milk once a
day will keep them from securing Sour
milk is better than new mix New milk viii
first make the pig costive, then seour him.
1t viii eurdle in his stomach, but sour milk
will not. The late fall pigs should suck as
long as they viii, aud The sows should be fed
on warm sloP feed, aud often. The slop can
be warmed by pouring hot wafer into The
swill tub. 4 breeding sow should never b
given mach dry corn. She will get founderet
on it.-4mericaa Stock Journal