Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-11-28
RAISING PORK.

| wish to give your readers my plan
Of raising pork cheaply, and if any
brother farmer has better way |
should like to know 1t, as | am open
TO conviction and anxious to learn how
to make the most money out of my
hogs in the shortest time and at the
least expense. My plan is to secure
as good breed of hogs as possible
(my preference is for the Poland or
Magies). During the summer | allow
them plenty of range on a good pas.
ture OF mixed grasses-blne grass,
timothy, white and red clover-and
plenty OF pure water, and good sheds
to sleep or lay in out of the rain and
heat. | feed the young pigs shelled
corn soaked pretty freely, II | have it.
The older hogs get no corn from June
until corn begins to harden, say
September l. | gradually increase the
feed, and am careful to keep plenty of
salt, ashes and Stacked lime in a trough
where all can have access TO it. About
October |, | will turn my entire herd
Of 200, little and big, into my field of
red Brazilian artichokes. OF these /
have seven acres, and | think they
will supply the herd with all the food
they want until winter closes the
ground, and when spring opens will
supply them with food until the mid
dlo of May. During this time my
stock hogs will get no other food but
the fattening hogs will have in addi-
ton feed of corn ut night
Artichokes have been used here sew
eral years, and those who have used
them longest like them best In field
culture We have no trouble to eradicate
them in fact it is necessary TO use
little caution, or the hogs will root
them out so there will not be enough
left in the ground for seed But dur
ing the winter is when we all fail in
handling hogs. The long months with
but one kind OF food, and that a kind
that makes but very little bone or mus.
Gle, virtually fat producing food only,
the best article to lay on fat with, but
not the best to build up the constitu-
ton and give healthy and strength. |
have this year raised an acre of mangle
wurtzcl and sugar beets, also half an
acre of turnips; these will put where
| can get at them in the winter and
when the weather will permit | will
feed them freely. The swine eat them
eagerly, even now, and | feel sure that
such a change of diet occasionally in
the winter will be grea. benefit. ]
shall also cut n few acres of clover
(second growth) cure it carefully, salt
it well, and feed ii during the winter,
perhaps cut short and moistened. !
will have quite number of late pigs
these | intend to feed during the win.
ter with one good feed each day, all
they will drink of warm swill made Of
two parts bran, one part shorts, and
one part meal, and at night feed Of
corn. Now, with this bill of fare and
variety of diet | hope to secure health
for them and profit TO myself A part
OF this is yet TO be tried, and is an ex-
pertinent with me, and am aware
some OF yonr readers will say, will re-
qnire too much labor; but ] think |
will be well paid for my labor; at
least | have never found the success.
iul stock raiser that either Stunned
labor or care, and if your readers de-
sire it, at some future time, will give
them the benefit of my experience. =
H. r. Brocaodg in Prairie Farmer.