The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-05-29
Feeding Swine in Winter.


4 correspondent of The Germantown IeLe
qldph writes: During the hot summer
months would feed very little solid feed
such as corn IN the ear or uncracked.
would keep hogs upon green feed constantly
either grass, oats or rye, and feed them al
regular intervals, once or twice day, upon
mashed feed, either shorts, chopped oats or
rye, bUckwhcat, etc, fed IN trOughs. When
fed in this way, and at the Sametime allowed
access to water and shade, hogs will bear
crowding through the hot months, a very
good time, if moi the best, TO take on flesh
This puts them in the best of condition for
corn feeding which should commence about
the 1st of September when the new crop is
still soft and tender
This writer is on the eve of finding out
that the hog requires bulky food as well as
the COW or horse. Because pork is usually
made by feeding grain, many farmers have
almost ceased to regard the hog as Il grass
eating animal. When farmers shall study
the nature OF the pig and feed it accordingly
there will be little trouble with cholera, sour
w or other diseases Both are no doubt oc-
casioned by errors in feeding and uncleanly
surroundings. One point mentioned in the
above paragraph needs correction, and that
is, that II is dangerous TO feed high in sum.
thar diseases are more prevalent in warm
weather; but the cause OF greater prevalence
OF disease is that concentrated food creates
fever in the stomach, and the hot weather in
crcases the difficulty. Cold weather carries oil
much of the unnatural heat, and thas modlties
the effect OF grain diet alone. Now the pig
should be fed in such way that the stomach
will be healthy at all times, and then the
heat Will aid the growth and laying on of
fat. With grass or other green food, given
with meal, the pig may be iattened much
cheaper in summer than fall or winter il re-
curing little food TO keep up animal heat.
The summer is the economical time TO make
pork; give plenty of clover, green rye, oats,
turnips, beetS, carrots or ether green food
rrllshed by the pig, and with this give corn
meal, ground oats. peas or any other grain,
and your pigs will make healthy pork, and
the pork cost 30 per cent. less than that made
in Wipter.-Ltcs stock Jo'raaA
WIRE AND CUT. WoPMs.-A correspondent
OF the Lire Stock Journal gives the following
preventive of the ravages of these insects in
corniells: Soak the seed in copperaS water
twenty-four hours before planting, keeping
the water little warm, say seventy dogs.
Fair. One pound OF copperas IN three gal
Ions Of water 70 one bushel OF seed. He
tested 1t last year, and not hill was touched.
The copperas turns the seed black, but does
not injure the germnative properties. An
other preventive is the following:
Soak your seed one night in tub Of equal
proportions Of I've made from ashes and
common urine, with 4 fair portien of blue
stone dissolved therein. Pour off the liquid
through a basket into a tub, TO preserve for
use again Then, while the com is wet, take
la iirst-class article of plaster, and mix and
stir till each and every grain is thickly and
thoroughly coated with the plaster, SO as 20
cover the entire surface Of the grams. Then
plant as usual, being careful not TO break or
rub of the coating 1t IS said to be, by those
who have tested II, & complete preventive
against those annoyers to all farmers.