Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-22
Fall Feeding Hogs.

EVERY farmer should commence TO feed
his hogs by the first of September, as il is
much easier TO fatten them in warm wealth
er than in cold besides, early pork mostly
brings the highest prices in market. From
the present indications, pork will command
as high prices this fall as last, therefore
every farmer should use all the facilities
in his power to fatten them as soon as
| possible.
The gr0toM of hogs should be made as
rapid as possible during warm weather.
1t should be remembered by every pork
raiser, that given amount of feed will
| produce larger results in summer than in
winter In winter large amount of vi
tally is expended in resisting the cold,
and therefore an increase of feed is re-
quired just to sustain the system in q
healthy condition.
AT first feed lightly of grain. Give them
all the pumpkins, squashes and roots they
will eat II other feed is scarce, let the
farmer commence cutting up green corn
for his hogs by the first of August, or even
earlier. II will be economy to do so,
rather than to let them go without till ii
is ripe, and then feed it to them.
If you wish to latton your pork rapidly,
do not give great quantities of rich foou,
grain, etc, at once, but give regular feed
of small quantity, until you give what
you think they will eat up clean but as
soon as they leave any feed in their
troughs, you should not feed them again
until they have finished eating up their
breakfast or dinner, as the case may be,
when you may give them a rather dimin-
ished supply, leaving them sufficiently
hungry at meal time to eat with relish
what is given to them Too much feed at
the commencement of fattening is as bad
| for swine as improper food a stunted
| growth being the noticeable result in both,
and any bieeder of experience knows that
! IL Is worth almost as much, If not more,t to
fatten stunted hog than the hog is
worth.
BY the middle of September the fattcn-
ing process should be commenced in good
earnest, and the work completed before
severe cold weather sets in. AS rule, we
believe, that where hogs are kept in open
lots without shelter, as most are, two
bushels of corn will lay on more fat In
October than three weeks will in January.
If you feed corn On the ear, be sure and
have good dry pen or lot to feed it in.
Many farmers will throw corn TO their
hogs in a wet, filthy pen, where they stand
in mud up 20 their knees. 1t is more than
half wasted before they eat it, and what
they do cat does no. do them much good
if they do not have a comfortable place to
sleep in.
1t will scarcely be credited how much is
gained by cooking the food of fatteDing
hogs; and if that cannot well be done, the
food may be greatly improved by being
soaked in milk or water, whether it be
first ground or used whole. BY 30 doing
if the soaking process continues long
enough, the food will become fermented,
and then the animals will eat more of it,
and tatten more readily than on the raw
article. English farmers not only feed
their hogs variety of food, but have it
cooked, or soaked till fermentf d. and finish
up by giving raw meal Tor the last few days
to harden up the fat.
twill not cost much to rig up cheap
apparatus for cooking feed, and we know
that it will repay many times the cost. A
writer in the Country Gentleman states
that he tried the experiment of feeding on
raw whole corn and on corn ground and
boiled, and as the result of hisexperiment,
he found that every pound of pork made
with the raw food cost % cents, while
every pound made by feeding cooked meal
costs but A. cents.
Another point should not be forgotten,
and that IS, that the hog can only be
profitably fed up to certain point-that
IS, II will only pay TO continue the fatten
ing pr jcess so long as the animal will eat
enough to lay on flesh and fat rapidly.
Whea that point is reached nothing is
gained by going further, and the curer
suould have it then. If the farmer live
near enough, he will find it pays better to
sell his fat hogs alive to the curer, than
kill them himself
Rotten wood. charcoal and ashes ar
frequently recommended for fatteninr ami
mails, especially for swine. Swine do not
consume such substances because they
like them as articles of food, but simply
to give bulk to the contents of the stom.
ach. Grass, hay cut fine, bran or boiled
roots, would subserve far better purpose
When swine have become rather fat
and are supplied with heavy feed, there
, will De a tendency to irritation of the
, stomach, succeeded by Inflammation, and
then disease. A physician states that it is
a common practice to eLdeavor to couu
teract this tendency of disease by feeding
sulphur, coal, bones, clay, rot en- wood
/, etc, which may be, to some extcnt, bene
: fetal; but it is like the drugs, used to in
fuse life and health into the gouty, rheu
/ matte, epicurian biped. The health thu!
. obtained is Of an inappreciabie amount
/ compared to that of the hardy rustic whC
e never had gout or apOpeSy. The hog il
! an epicuIian philosopher; ard as Provi
= dence deals with his biped prototype (tht
: vot5ry OF that philosopher by thrownl
ia disease at the proper time to close tht
4 scene, 81 the butchers knife should do To-
g the quadruped what Providence docs TO
i tne biped, bat little in advance, Just be
e fore the disease is developed.
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