The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-04
SOUTHERN HOME AND FARM.
The Care or Young PIEu.


An able writer of large experience in
the management of pigs, says:
In preparing the young pigs'-food
the meal should be thoroughly cooked,
not merely brought to boiling point and
then considered done, but boiled as if Won
were making bowl of Cruel for YOUR.
self-that is, If you know how to make
one. If not, ask your wife or sister to
Instruct you at once, for the knowledge
is indispensable in the art of raising
young pigs successfully. The hotel swiil
should be sorted over, and the LIQUID.
with the best of the solid portion, such
as bits OF meat, bread, biscuit, etc. n
have found in the barrel hams, wild
ducks, chickens, snipe, ETC., besides
spoons, knives and forks innuner-
able, some of them plated cooked
separately for the Youngsters.
With this soup, which at times
smells temptingly savOry, you can
thin down your cooked meal. have
tried fairly both ways, and am decidedly
in favor OF thin rather than thick food
at any rate until the pigs are four months
old; mean | prefer their food should
be OF about the consistency Of pea soup
rather than of almost solid pudding.
which latter diet, l believe generally pre-
young pig to bis utmost capacity to de-
velop his growth, feeding him 1--WE and
even six times a day. For fattening,
this method answers well, but have
found 1t the reverse of advantageous for
the purpose of developing young pigs,
which, judging from the manner they
are often fed, must be imagined to possess
digestive organs equal to those of an
ostrich. You may, at the end of three
or four months, produce perfect marvels
of fat, and if they were to be Immediately
converted into fresh pork, the treatment
would be correct enough, but you are
far from promoting the development of
thrifty, well-proportioned future breed
ing ooars and sOws, intended TO uphold
the credit of your herd. l find four
times daily--divided as equally as the
season OF the year will permit--quite
sufiicient1o satisfy healthy appetite,
and would rather, after feeding, have my
young charges eye me with a WistfuI
look as leave their pen, than see them
stagger to their nests, bloated and in pain
from excessive gorging. Halt an hour
after: their meal, peep into the
sleeping pens of two lots OF
young pigs--one that has been ALWAYS
cTammed, and the other fed moderately
the latter are to be seen sleeping COM
foTtably; the former will be found rolling
restlessly about in evident uneasiness.
ls-it wise to strain their digestive powers
to such an extent?
Immediately on a young pig being
noticed to refuse his food, give him dose
of castor oil, and ii this has no effect
during the next few hours, follow it IN
by an injection of warm water, as the
mischief, in great majority of cases, il
cosiiveness, by promptly attending tc
which thousands of young pigs
lives might be saved. For 8
long time-from ignorance of the above
fact-I failed TO account for the
deaths OF many young pigs, but after
carefully examining each az it died
satisfied myself that roy chief ain
should Re TO prevent all obstruction Of
the bowels, and to endeavor to preserve
their regular motion. BY the adoption
of less stimulating, though equally
nutritious diet, and by pursuing the
treatment just mentioned, at the very
first symptoms of sickness, have re
duced my mortality list to a minimum
and have had the satisfaction of raising
numerous litteIs of young pigs withou
their experiencing any check in thei
growth whatever.