Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1870-08-04

Pigs well fed sho9id eaia from 60 to
one and half pounds Day, or weigh
from $50 70 400 pounds uhen frOn eiaht "a
nine nscuths old, naktng then the cheap
est pork the farmer can mske. Many
think IL costs the OQatDo make pig port
but lissie -consitie rltion WIN snow tAati''
cannot cost as much 70 make . hog weigh
from 800 to 400 pouuds IN come eight or
nine months, Is II viii TO bring II up to
that weight in 10 months. for n must take
. good deal Of feed 70 support life during
the longer period, and for which their is
no return. This expense n made still
larger by having to support nfe and ami
NAL warmth through our long cold winters.
This is made plain by dividing the Feed Of
such a pig into three parts, one to sup
port life, two for growth and fattesing.
Now IL cannot be far oct Of the way 70 Al
low, when fed to the hest advantage, an
average of one and 4 half pounds day
gain, making some 400 pounds in nine
WORTHWHILE feeding two parts or two
thirds of this amount, on, an average,
makes only three fdniths ef pound gain,
and takes double the time TO make the
same weight SO that the part and portion
70 support life has TO be fed double the
time or to dcssbie the amount, 10 the win
tered hog, that it is 10 the pig. Now, IL
the average cost of feeding the pig is six
cents q day, 250 days, u months and 10
iays,) WI cost sl5, and it may then
weigh, say 800 pounds net-while the
old hog At two-thirds the cost, or -four
cents day, must take 500 days, at cos,
OF $50, to gain the same weight. Now
when II rs considered that large portion
of the hogs In the country arc kept until
some Is or 70 month sold. or from 500 tn GOO
DAYS. to make 500 pounds net. the gr' nj
disadvantage of the usual practic, becomes
very plain. True. there may be some
thing gained or saved by pasiuring the
wintered hog; but is not this balanced by
the greatest cost of keeping in the winter
And then, as the hog is not strictly q
grazing animal, the pasture may pay a
well or better for other stock. Pigs dc
better when fed little less than IN y car
eat. than when there is more or less lef,
in the trough.
The best feed is the mixture of skim
milk. Stops. &C, from the house, wei
thickened with some kind Of provender
Corn. peas, barley. buckwheat, ami oats
are al good. But pigs do best an mix
ture OF some OF these grains. This make
sproycIder that viii mix well with ih'
swiil, ard stay 70. Corn meal, aud, TO ,
large extent, pea meal, settles to the Dot
tom as soon as II is mixed. II either il
mixed with oats before grinding, it make
prove1der that answers admirably
Barley answers very well, hut does bette
With portion OF oats mixed In befor'
grinding. Buekwheat and oats do yer,
well If mixed together, or with some [ tn
er grain. hut neither should be fed alone
Nor S. ould any grain be fed to such pig
without grinding. If fed alone, any kin,
Of grain is much better when ground; bu
when the meal is mixed with swill. SO n
70 more thoroughly fill up and distend tn
stomach, it Is more thoroughly digestet
than is USUALLY the case when fed in an,
other way. 1t is also best to vary tn,
feed, and mix in a few boiled potatoes o.
other vcgetsbles for change, giving bu
little al FIRST, but more as the pigs get OIL
der.
american Stock Journal.