The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-12-04

one will prove better than the other with the
same care and keeping. AS the SOW has
usually large filters the manufacturer of
false pedigree has every opportunity to &C
complish his purpose undetected. No one
one of our domestic animals Is is so easily
nodded as the hog, and in breeding for a pur-
pose the swine grower has at his command the
qualities he deems the most desirable to per
petuate. As to the breed known as Poland
China, which has been in process of forms-
ton for many years, DR.. Stetson said that it
had been crossed and recrossed, and just how
bred no man could tell. 1t has had the
united wisdom OF many discriminating
breeders to bring it to its present state of
perfection, aud he thought il worse then
folly for any one man to claim that be has
brought il to its present standard-in fact, it
has no standard, except In the judgmentand
taste OF the breeder. So far as he Is capable
of Judging, he thinks the Poland-ChIna hog
possesses all the constituents of hardness,
with powers OF assimilation second to no
breed. They may be bred to any size de-
sired may be fattened for the market at any
age, and are as prolific as any of our modern
breeds. They are the only breed known to
him that will eet and be thankful, and If
not fed will not squeal about it.
Necessity of Mixed Food for Stock.
Plants and their products as food for ami
chapter in the scientific manual for farmers
recently prepared under the direction Of
Commissioner Thomas P. James, of Georgia.
In this the writer deals with the two classes
of substances in plants known to chemists as
albuminoids and carbo-hy drates, the former
embracing the flesh forming principles OF
the food of animals, the latter the fat and
heat producing principles. The ratio in
which the constituents of food must exist
depends upon the climate, the age and con.
ditIon of the animals fed and the purpose for
which they are fed. Animals require food
containing large portion OF carlo hydrales
in winter than in summer, and the hay and
grains consumed during this season contain
a higher per cent. of the carbohydrates than
the green food which is consumed in sum-
mer.
After elaborate experiment in feeding do
nestle animals, conducted in Germany, it
was decided that the best ratio FOR general
purposes between the albuminoids and car
bo-hydrates is as one to three. While this
ratio exists in only few SINGLE substances
it may be secured bya proper mixture of
substances having their proximate principles
in different ratios. The practice of many
farmers who feed corn and fodder through
out the year regardless of the temperature
is unwise. Corn, which has no superior as
winter feed for stock, is too heating for an
exclusive summer diet.
Oats make a better summer food than corn,
because their flesh forming principles bear
larger proportion to their far and heat pro.
ducipg principles than they do In corn. The
green grasses, however furnish the natural
food for animals In summer, and mixed
grasses supply the albuminoIds and carbo-
hydrates in better ratio than single ones, es-
pecially when the legumes are mixed with
the grasses. Animals left to their own choice
never feed upon a single article, but upon
mixed heritage. A COW turned into a field
in which clover, peas and corn are all grow
ing will not confne herself to either, but
partake of all.
The food should vary with the object in
view If the object OF the breeder is TO pro
duce fat then the food should contain carbo-
hydrates in large proportions. III very poor
nimals, in which the muscular tissue has
been wasted, are to be fed, the ratio between
the albuminoids and carlo -hydrates should
be as one to three. until normal condition
of flesh is restored. when the ratio of Carlo
hydrates may be increased. IL the produc-
ton of milk is the object, the normal ratio
of one to three, or, perhaps, one to four in
winter, will give satisfactory results. If
young, growing animals are fed, the normal
ratio of one TO three, with liberal percent.
age of phosphate for the production of bone,
will be desirable.