The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-03-08

horticultural Editor.-You are right
in saving take care of the sows.' The
grea; seven by eight commission now
sitting i'm Washington to count i'm our
next President is not rs big thing
for Iowa as the sows of the State. The
people care less who is president than
they do for meat and money. There
is nothing better TO make silk purse
out of than sow's ears. A nice house
well furnished, neat lawn well titled
garden and orchard, are good in their
places, but what would we do but for
our sows? Its little vulgar, it is sto-
ga like, but it is still true that the SOW
is our pride. our strength, our wealth,
our main stay, our great family and
commercial staple. The pigs born in
| Iowa during March and April, 1877,
| well cared for and fatted, would pay
| her full share of the national debt, and
| the grain is already on hand TO fat
| them. yet know farmer or two who
get up at iu;tini rht 10 build ire in the
parlor to keep The poor tender, lousy
plants from freezing, whose hogs lay
piled up against a shanghai fence
squealing. freezing, shivering and
fighting all night.
This article Is suggested by some
thing have seen in the Register about
caring for the sows, and how TO save
the pigs after they are bora. l was
born very near II hog pen; was, any
way, brought up among the hogs.
Since | have been on my own hook.
| guess | have had 400 filters of pigs
about me, yet don't claim that my
plan is right or my success great. Let
me ask one thing of hog men, viz: did |
YOU ever know of an old-fashioned, |
longnosed prairie-rooter" or .hazel |
splitter SOW OVERLAPPING or eating her
pigs? | never knew of such case. 1t |
is the fat, lazy, clumsy sow that over
lays her pigs. Her great weight first,
then her slow habits, does the mischief.
A SOW Of a 30 pounds weight may lay
on pig half an hour and he will still
live. | keepa sprinkle of "long nose
blood in my brood sows, and keep
them only in good living order. The
poor, despised, abused SOW of our faith
ers is far better nurse, too, than our
late improved breeds.
charge all hog trouble to internal
parasites. Myself and partner a few
years ago burned two hundred and six
y OLD March aud April pigs that died
II quiusy, cholera, or something else,
Turing August and September. These
pigs, withtheirmothers had the range
fla largetract oftimber,- plenty ofpure
water. charcoal, stone coal, sulphur
prings, and rotton wood always be-
ore them. We tried all the remedies
Known or that could be invented, and
till they diel, The shoats alone suff-
red. They had been fed dry corn,
nd corn soaked, and corn cooked.
Dissection disclosed worms in super
bundance even in the throat, and we
'egan TO fight worms, and then sue
eeded.
The best hog-worm medicine is cop
eras and soda, once week give my
ogs heavy dose of soda and copperas J
issoivei ia swill. Particularly do |
-atch and feed them in winter when
ae frost embargo keeps them from
t,a
, sows before pigging time. | have /.
o trouble from sows eating pigs. Nor
Q | believe u sow in good health will S
nus destroy her young, but she is fe- :
,rls!l from BREEDING milk has ..
ri commenced to flow 80 the pigs can s
Il it; her entrails are sore and full OF
Dles and b!isters from long writhing
orms, aud she loses her instinct.
vcrythin1 she sees is lleI enemy, and :
nothing else falls in her reach, she
stroys her young. Keep the SOW
arm, in good flesh, but not fat, keep
e worms under subsection, don't
lii her before or after pigging, until J
e begins to give her full supply of
ilk; then keep her warm and dry :
ed her to death if you dare. /.
HOosIER.
boone, Feb. Is, ls77.-Stute Regis
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