The Osceola times., 1878-04-27
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The following Is from an address de-
livered BY DIR. Fra Stetson, OF Hepos-
sett, ILL.,, at u,e yecsnt Agricultural in
stitute, at Champaign. III:
The great question OF the value of corn
a. food for swine has never been and can
not be actually demonstrated. When
We sell our corn on the market We count
the dollars and cent?, but when We Feed
1t TO hogs, it can only be approximately
estimated. How many pounds OF fo,k
man yet has found out Allexperimeuts
In feeding have only proven what certain
hogs, under certain conditions, have
made v dc hushel Of come New.
whether this grain has ban Eve OF
twenty pounds 10 the bushel, establishes
this and no more-that In certain con.
ditions 10 many pounds Of pork have
been made from bushei of'corn.
? There are 20 many things to be taken
into account a. age, breeding, the
season of the year, mortality, wear and
tear OF the dam, ETC., that anything like
q general average is almost entirely out
Of the question. II anything - well
established in feeding, It. 10 that the
young Of swine as well N of all other
animals will make very much better gain
from the food consumed than older ami
mails. I havemyselt sold more than one
carload OF pigs, at about ten months old,
whose average gain had been about one
pound per day--ssy three hundred
pounds at ten months. No one can
believe that another three b undred
pounds could have been added TO these
pigs Ia any thing Ike the sxme time or
icf tho quantity Of food consumed. I
DO not claim any extravagant gain for
these pigs, and can readily believe that
Others haFe done better (espscially the
man from sAlankate). n have fed corn
70 hogs; that abundantly satisfied me
and have also fed them when l did not
got pay tor tnrowfng the corn on the
fodip8 Aoer When 10 buy and when
y Th then to give Snd when to with
hold. 10 beyond the ken OF mortal man.
Will 1t pay to tnnd snd cook food for
our hogs? ! have experipeatea . littls
ON this subject, and all afo weAooue 70
my deductions, but !. nslther ask nor
expect that the world shall be turned
upside down at my doipg So. i think il
will pay to make 1sin cruel OF soup for
sows giving milk idst q II will for the
dai.yman to feed hk coxs on soit green
food to encourage The how Of milk, to
make such foodt0 soWs. I know Of no
better way than to grind or cook, either
.VNnatesm trover n open fire. =
! think it Will also pay TO prepare the
drink for pigs in the saale manner,
especiallv where large numbers are raised
and batter drink can not be obtained.
Aii,fnow that natures elespent @milk
'a<can not b 'equailed, even In the labor.
a,ery Of the chemist, and when milk can
~ = eetsi9sd ll:suffi1isnt qusnti,y, We
thcan 90 the next best thing, make
lhtir drink palatable, as near blood heat
a. possible- ANY way to get large rqusn-
titles of drink into their stomachs. I
have used two parts of corn and one part
Of ofts, gs0upd together, and added 70
this SnAqual bulk Of wheat middlings.
Ihlfn@ proven satisfactory 70 tue taste
ofthe pig, and never saw anything but
good effects from its use. 1t Is we'll.
established law in the physiology of diges.
lion that It Is not the quantity but the
quality Of the food digested., II it Ia the
~ lbeetber ythss jbresh the oamels
ssoks 20 u p the extra grain Of corn that
pays 1t takes certain amount of food
To supply the natural waste OF the sys
tenn, and all above this Quantity Is stored
up in the form MT and niuscier,1
Corn soaked in cold water for from
twenty>tour' ~ fofty>eight hours is rem.
'iered very much more direstible in the
stomach Of the pig than when not 20
treated, Always keep in mind that the
Hsseer Sqaantity eaten and digested is
the TINE secret Of success in fattening
eniDals. NT~s rfee g. :.
'sh rev words a. to the importance Of
fiaids in the system, to aid assimilation.
Az animals, from man down, that are 10
q state Of health, consume large quan.
tity Of fluids, and take on flesh in the
same proportion. 1t Ia not the nourish-
Inent contsiued in tbe lager beer of our
Teutonic friends that gives them their
barrel.shaped sbdemens. The same
quantity OF water pure and uncombined
win the same amount of nutriment con
sumed would produce the came result.
hhow me fat man, woman or child, or
any other animal, and IL net proven great
drinkers, they are the exceptions and
not the rule, 49,. 49, I'I'IT
3 The chemist will tell us that it takes
70 many pounds OF green grass to be
equal In nourish ment to a given quan.
tiry of dry hay. II -
. ButeveryoDe knows that grass is more
" hankered after" and more readily
sssimilated and taken up by the digestive
organs, more especially in animals that
do not chew the cud. There are lust
three things that give the hog its com,
merciai Importance. First, their flesh
can be preserved for use and kept for an
indefinite time, as the flesh of no other
Domestic animal can be. Secondly, their
extraordinary fecundity-- six, twelve.
eighteen, twenty-iour or even more pig.
at a single litter. A SOW would hardly
d,c OF old age before she might become
the common ancestor Of more hogs than
are now to be counted in the United
S.stes. / am getting up q swine herd
h,ok. Please take notice, and govern
yourselves accordingly.
, lhe third and most important chsrac.
'erlstsc OF the hog is that he is a hog.
ever ready to assimilate any article @,
lori that comes in his reach. In plain
English, the hog has a stomach made for
digestion, and furthermore, that stomach
fcver gets out OF order. All that anv
hog wars is plenty 10 sat, and his
ncighboss mus. look out for themselves.
WnoSyer beard Of q hog having dyspep.
sia, the stomach-ache or the thousand
And ohe fils than his les favored name.
sase endures? Yea, verify, any hog with