The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-07-11
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PIG BREEDING AND FEEDING.

hf Hechl, the prince Of governmental
farmers, says the same rule applies to
pigs as well as 10 other animals choose
the best male parent of thrifty breed.
Let the breeding SOW work for her living
For if you feed her bountifully she will
get fat and have few pigs. But, he.
says, to have good pigs, she must have
the right sort of food to make bone
muscle, and fat; but avoid the fatal mis-
take oegiving the sow large quantity
OF roots before parturition. Let her run
In pasture and have moderate SUNNY
OF bran, little meal and boiled potatoes
few turnips, but very few mangolds
a moderate supply of peas. beans, and
barley, or soaked Indian corn may be
added, also clover and green beans in
the pods. Nothing comes amiss 70 the
sow. The great point is to give a var
lety, and not too much of one sort. es.
pecially roots But after parturition
roots may be more literally given, espec-
tally cabbage in conjunction with other
food. but immediately after parturition
the diet should be sparing and cooling.
In cold weather. warmth ard shelter
are indispensable. Never allow Dig
to bury itself in stable manure, or catch
cold by sleeping on the cold ground,
For fattening pigs, nothing beats one.
third pea meal and two-thirds barley
meal; If mixed with skinned milk.
steamed roots and potatoes, they grow
and fatten very fast. He fattened two
hundred pigs one season without loosinc
any by disease. To promote ventilation.
they were all placed on spared floors
and IN bot weather, they were treated dali
ly with shower bath, which kept them
very clean. He put straw on the floors
In cold weather, aud he says pigs
pay In manure better than most other
animals. They should have salt and
plenty of pure water.
CARE OF Horses.
The London Horse Book says: All
horses must not be fed in the same pro-
portion, without regard to their ages.
their constitutions, and their work: be-
cause the improperly of such practice
Is selt-evident. Yet 1t is constantly done
and Is the basis Of disease of every kind.
Never use bad hay an account of its
cheapness because there is no proper
nourishment in it,
Damaged corn is exceedingly Injurious
because 1t brings on infammations of
the bowels and skin diseases.
Chatf is better for old horses than bav
because they can chew and digest it bet
ter.
Hay or grass alone will not support a
horse under hard work, because there is
not sufficient nutritive body in either.
When horse is worked hard its food
should chiefly be oats; if not worked
hard Its food should chiefly be hay be-
cause oats supply more rourishment and
discriminating material than any other
kind of food; hay not SO much.
A'd0h iecdiHs Is WaStekul. Inc better
plan is to feed with chopped hay, from
manager, because the food is not then
thrown out, and is more easily chewed
and digested.
Sprinkle the hay with wa ter that has
salt dissolved in it, because it is pleasing
10 the animal's taste, and more easily
digested. a teaspoonful Of salt in a
bucket of water is sufficient
Oats should be bruised for an old horse,
but not for 4 young one, because
the former, through age and defective
teeth, cannot chew them properly; the
young horse can do so, and they are thus
properly mixed with the saliva, and turn
ed into wholesale nutriment.
WHAT NOT TO DO
Nearly forty years ago that good old
paper, the Genesee Farmer, told few
things farmers should never do. AS these
forbidden practices still continue, it would
be well to publish the hints indicated:
A farmer should never undertake to
cultivate more than he can do thoroughly;
half titled land is growing poorer,-well
titled land is constantly improving.
A farmer should never keep more cat
tie, horses, sheep, or hays, than he can
keep in good order, an animal in high
order the first of December is already half
wintered.
A farmer should never depend on his
neighbor for what he can produce ON his
own farm he should never beg fruit
While he can plant trees, or borrow tools
when he can make or buy. A high au-
thority has said, the borrower is servant
to the lender.
A farmer should never be SO Immersed
in political matters as to forget to sow
his wheat or dig his potatoes, nor should
he neglect to inform himself of those
great national and State policies which
will always agitate more or less free
people.
A farmer should never be ashamed of
his calling; he should remember, that If
any man can possess the enviable dlstinc-
ton of being independent, he is the man.
No farmer can afford to allow the re-
proach of neglecting education to lie
against him or his family if knowledge
is power, the beginning of it should be
early and deeply laid in the district school.
A farmer should never use ardent spir-
its as a drink; if. while undergoing
severe fatigue, and the hard labors OF the
summer, he would enjoy robust health,
L.. Ia torn nnrnfa In all things.