The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-01-12
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HOW TO KEEP THE HOGS GROWING.
Almost any farmer with good breed
of hogs can feed with good results il
all the conditions are right.-the corr,
sound and not too hard, and the hog.
eat and assimilats well. But these
conditions do not always exist. II
they exist at the beginning of the feed
ing season, they are apt to change after
time. The corn gets dry and hard
and being SO largely carbonac 'ous Ii
heating aud constipatiug. and after a
time 1t leaves the animal in an abnorm
al, restless condition. All the want
of nature have not been supplied and
II. cries out, as manifested in the dispo-
/. sition of the animal to root in the
ground or gDaw the fences rather than
eat the food placed before them. Ar
long as hogs have access to grass, with
plenty of salt daily, this trouble is mol
likely to occur, for grass supplies larg.
ly the constituents not present in the
corn, which are the phosphate ano
nirrogepous elements. But few farm
ers secure the best results from feeding
hogs, for The reason that they do no
understand this matter of keeping uE
a constant growth in them, during thu
fatteniDg period.
Most farmers think that after feed
ing hogs about SO long, they had jus'
as well sell them, thus obviating tn.
fruitless result of trying to make them
grow any more. This is poor economy
as q rule for several reasons 1t il
important, in fact there can be no
successful stock farming, unless the
farmer studies and understands full,
the nature and wants of whatever
animal he may keep upon his farm ano
be careful to supply those wants. The
difference in the prosperity of two
farmers, neighbors, with equal faciliti
ties, is apparent, where one adheres to
the above plan and the other does not.
Tho thougl ttul, careful man brings hi.
hogs up to an average of 400 pounds
or more without any trouble, while his
neightor has squeezed bis up to al
average of 800 pounds, with more
effort than necessary in his way. Th.
price, too, Is generally in favor of the
heavier weights, wt:ch added to extr.
quantity of pork and it makes the dit
ference of the entire profits.
Another important matter should
not be lost sight of, in the fact that i
does not pay to sell corn at pre,en
prices, if it is possible to put it int,
pork. While corn is worth abou-
thirty cents per bushel in the eountr,
market, fed to hogs in a proper manne,
1t brings fifty to sixty cents per bushel.
% that it is great sacrifice to put tn.
hogs into market half fatted witt,
plenty of corn on hand. Thousand,
of hogs are received In Chicago ever,
week in this half fatted condition.
We have no doubt that this result
from want of q proper knowledge as Il
how to feed them to make them better
as no fsrmer has any excuse for no
having a reasonably good breed o
hogs, with the present improved COL
dinon of the same. Some farmers,
little to one 81 ie of civilization, how
ever, still adhere to the ''razor-backs.
perhaps on account of their hardiuess
and the small quantity of food upo'
which they sdbsist. Of this class bu
little results are expected under any
circumstances.
Hogs being fed for the market a
this season of the year should be so fla
that cold weather will affect them bu
little if they are only kept dry. If th'
swine do no not eat heartily at regula
intervals and lie down coptented, ther,
il something wrong. They are per
haps costive, and need other food thai
corn. If they do, feed threshed oats
with little salt mixed through, one
day; or get some wheat bran ano |
shorts ana mix them together Mi1
enough each morning for feed to be
given in the evening. Mix with boil
ing water in the bottom of the barre
drst, then it may be finished with colo
water in the absence of an abundanc.
of that which is hot, end if the barrel
is covered up with a .hick cloth, tn.
whole will, in a few hours, become
fermented, and be relished by the hogs
A little of such food given with the
corn, supplies the phosphorus and nj
trogen to build up the bone and the
muscle and keeps the animal in q nor
NAL and healthful condition. Thi
additional food does not take the place
of corn, but rather enlarges the hog,
capacity for it, SO that he eats more OF
1t and assimilates ell that he eats.
The probability is that pork will
remain high for some time to come,
and it stands the farmer in hand to
turn all the surplus corn into pork thai
he can. for the foreign demand for our
pork product is increasing rapidly and
already exceeds the supply.
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