The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-11-07
fnr the farmer.

How 20 Feed Hogs to the Greatest Profit.
DR.. L. W. Cballiss, of Kansas, recently had an
article in the New York Tribune, which be head
ed, "Hog Boarding for One Cent Day" We
reproduce the article, To show how he wonld
keep hog at this remarkably cheap rate. He
says; ,;,,
and a free run in fields of red clover, such is
common in the East, will supply many of his
wants The great hog producing districts are
mot generally favored with this, and reliance is
of necessity on prairie grass and corn. The
present price of corn is better than that Of pork,
and the man who attempts to make hogs from
pigs by throwing corn in the ear from his cribs,
will soon need q guardian. Ii is sure road to
poverty Indeed, corn and water in the crude
state will not make hogs ont of pigs-but runts.
Corn is infiammatory, and in crude form, pro-
duces very little growth, each pound of increase
produced by it costing three times its value.
Better sell your corn and buy your meat. But
this is unnecessary, for the same material can
be manipulated 80 as to make pork-raising
profitable at two cents pound. The secret is
in feeding essence of corn, and no crude corn.
I speak of the treatment of hogs during the
growing period, the finish for market being
different process Get one, three, or five sugar
hogsheads, according to the size of your herd;
remove the inside hoop that holds the bottom,
caulk well with oakum around the bottom,
place the hoop, and bury side by side in the
ground three feet or more, near well or spring
lid to each one. If in the hog pasture, fence
around, or you will lose hogs by getting an
overdose, as orr experience will fully verify.
Have large troughs, made of two-inch plank,
placed contiguous. Grind your corn fine, and
put in each hogshead four TO six bushels, and q
quart of salt. This may make you sick, but
wait. Fill up with water, stir occasionally for
two or three days, and when fermentation has
fairly set in-say, two or three days-begin to
feed. 1t is always ready afterward, for there is
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ter at once always keeping them full ; repeat
ing twice each day, until the homeopathic di-
luton reminds you that further progress in that
direction might be cruelty to animals, then
throw in a sack of feed and proceed before.
Those who have not tried the plan, will be as
tonished to what attenuation corn can be thus
reduced, and to what results will be wrought.
We have seven hogsheads running in this
way, and have demonstrated the fact that a 200
pound porker can be kept growing by this pro-
cess on a cost of one cent day. Each hog will
drink from two to FIVE gallons at q feed, distend,
lay down, grunt and grow. For the young pigs,
q trough should be shut off from the herd, and
their food made richer. They need distention,
as do hogs, and will acquire the habit of assin-
ilating largely. Into these tubs can be thrown
the refuge from the kitchen and dairy, thereby
increasing the good results. Wheat, rye, barley,
millet, broom corn seed, etc., can be ground and
utilized in the same manner. / am aware that
slop for hogs is no new thing, and that the farm
of the East uses his bran and shorts in that
way, but what we now aim at is how to convert
the corn and surplus grain of the farm into
pork with the greatest profit, applicable alike
to o small or large business. The reader will
understand that where hogs have range or
grass, the slop must be fed three times day,
and be of increased strength. In districts where
there are no facilities for grinding, if the corn
in the ear shelled is soaked in water twenty
four hours before feeding, it will be much i'm
proved as q summer food.