Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-23


Yes. There is not the least doubt
about that. How is it conveyed from
one herd to the other? On this the
medical men disagree. Some argue
it is conveyed in the air; others, that
it is conveyed by the swine coming
in contact with it; IN fact, it is said
tina, !, may be carried it, the clothes
Of the attendant, or by dogs, birds,
sc. We are acquainted with a far
mer, southwest of La Porte City, who
kept large number OF hogs in the
manner last described, and when the
cold weather Ct the early part of the
past winter came on, they would pile
up under an old shed. The result
was, the Cholera broke out, and out
of some so head, he saved but or 8.
From there, the disease spread until
there were thousands of dollars
worth lost in that ncighborhood.-
We might give several such cases
where farmers have lost largely in
our own vicinity, not with the chol
era, but with the quinsy and sutfoca-
ton, which was caused by lot divid-
ing their hogs, and providing com,
Portable sleeping apartments. l am
aware that some of my readers will
say this separation of swine Is attend
ed with too great an expense to be
adopted by majority Of our farmers,
hence they will take their chances,
ami follow the same course their
fathers and grandtathers followed
BUTT iSan old saying that experience
is the best of teachers" and we
should have our eyes and ears open
to learn from the experience Of 9th
.rs, thus enabling us to guard against
their mistakes and mistortunes, by
guarding against this and all other
diseases to which swine have become
so subject of late years.
by thus exercising care and judg-
ment with the hog, the same as we
do all other domestic animals, in the
tall and winter of 1877, Iowa will
send to our markets another four
millions OF hogs, and our farmers
again have their old pocket books
filled to overlooking with greenbacks,
or what is better still, the shining,
chinkling gold.
Since we have advised the keep
ing of 40 or so hogs on every 100
acre farm in The State, we would al
SO adj. i>e the keeping Of better hogs,
and keeping them better. Take
your pencil and paper about the LIST
of December, and go to each farmer
i'll the State, and see how many hogs
there are shut up to fatten that are
eighteen or twenty months cd, and
yet will not weigh 200 pounds each.
Why is this? l, is not for the wan,
of corn, for We find them trampliny
corn under their feet. We will ven
ture the opinion that there is fully
two millions, or one half of the whole
number in this condition. Now,
there are several reasons for this,
two of which we wish 10 MENTION
lst.-Thcy have been bred in and in
without any particular standard Ill
view, until they are but little in al
vance of the riginal wild hog
2d.-Thc majority of our farmers
forget that the hog is grass animal
and his stomach requires bulk ~
we'll rs nutriment. Now if we take
tie horse or the COW, and shut then
up in close pen, and feed then
exclusively on dry corn and water
they will soon die. Why should no
the hog? The one requires bull
just as much as the other. In June
or July, neighbor a. has Il nice 10
of pigs; they have been fed soake'
corn with an abundance Of slop, bu
rs they get older he feeds more dr..
corn and cod water. When we cal
to see them in December, they ar
long-lcgged, sharp backed,and weasel
eyed looking sharks, with the hal
all scratched off their sides. W.
tin,i neighbour y. much out OF hume
ab"u, his pigs, and anxious to SCI
and get better breed. Too mucl
concentrated food and not enuu.l
bulk did the work Again it is SAT-
to say that there will be one milol
pigs in the State the LIST OF May tina
will not weigh rs much rs they 'ii'
in December last. Too much corr
and not enough brnn,"als and shorts
did the work.
The secret of successful swim
growing turns on the point If pro
wiling grass tor hogs in the sumnc
season, and ground oats, bran ant
shorts in the winter. This distend
their stomachs and keeps them in
growing and healthy condition.
AS We have advised the keeping
of number Of hogs, also the man
ner in which they should be kept
some may say we have the Berkshire
Poland China, Essex, Chester White
and each breeder claims his is thu
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