Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04
The Villagers Pig--How to Keep It.

A large number of our villapa suh.
scrlbers keep COW, and one or mora MICS
just 10 save the waste from the table. and
70 help In the support of the family. Both
are important sources of income when
properly managed. The inevitable waste
rom the Kitchen in an ordinary American
family amounts to good deal in the courss
OF year. 1t may as we'll be turned into
pork, sausages, head cheese, spare ribs. and
lara, as to be thrown away. A neiohbor
VINO has vegetable garden, and studies
thrltt, has just slaughtered two pigs. weigh.
ing o9S lbs, and worth $35 SO at the market
price. The manure made from them is
worth ten dollars. Two small pigs were
put INTO the pen April 9th, and came oue
wei iattened November Dist, about sever
months and half. The food consumed
consisted mainly Of sour, and buttermillr
kltcnen waste, small potatoes, cabbage
turnlps, sweet corn, wind. fall aDDles. md
other wastes from the garden. TO this wa.
added enough Indian meal to keen item
constantly full fed from spring to fail A
good pen is an important item in feodin0
pigs. The sleeping apartment should he
dry, and be kept we'll Uttered with straw.
leaves, or sea-weed. From one.halE otwo
thirds OF pigs life is to be spent in sleen.
II 1t Is well treated Give the pic tEe
materials, and he will make Il nice bed and
Keep 1t clean. The remainder of the stye
Is OF less Importance. There should he
room enough to compost the manure. LIQUID
and solid, with garden soil, corn stalks.
weeds and other refuse matter. The pig
Is unrvalled as Il manufacturer Of compost-
It's good effects will be seen in all parts of
the garden, whore it is spread the following
season. Regularity of feeding, three times
a day, Is one of the secrets of success
This may be at your own meal times, if
your wife is Il good house keeper and lleeps
a clock in the kitchen. Good digestion
depends upon regular meal hours for man
and beast. There is then very little tenn.
tatlon to over eating, no cloying, and no
spells OF refusing food. A pig should never
los@ meal after he is put into the pen,
and should never be hungry enough to
squeal. 1t requires some Judgment in
squalHlng the rations, as we'll as in ragula-
ting their time Much less Of Indian
meal 1t required for ration, than Of cooked
potatoes, and less Of potatoes than Of
Kitchen waste. If anything is left in the
ieed'trough, the ration has been a little too
large, or not quite good enough. A BIZ
should have all he can eat up and digest.
A variety OF faOd should also receive attan.
the garden are excellent appetizars. and
enables the pig to consume more meal.
The meal may be mixed with cold or boil
! ing water, with milk, or boiled fruits and
vegetables, as suits convenience. 1t may
be varied with unground corn, buckwLeat.
or mixture OF ground grains. The time
! spent in caring for pig usually comes at
meal hours, and may ba balanced by what
/ We learn in the school Of economy. There
Is perhaps no animal that will exhibit more
satisfaction, and give greater returns for
/ good care and feeding, than pig; and on
the other hand 4 hungry one without
/ warm home-onc that has not had proper
bringing up-can make itself exceedingly
/ dlsagreeable, both as to general appearance
and the noise that it will produce: besides
such an animal is without profit As
rule 1t pays the villager to raise his own
pork and il pays him tho greatest profit
when he takes the best care Of his pig.
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