Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-06
Look to the Brood.sows.

The hrood-sow can come as near 20
giving something for nothing as any
other created thing. But even She
aust have strong constitution and
the conditions of health to produce
healthy pigs. The most discouraging
uhing In MI the breeders business II
Ehe work of keeping life In feeble lit
ter OF squealing pigs, that have not
strength enough 10 find the teat and
fight for II, Sows that have been
grassed tin Int, and have gone into
winter quarters IN vigorous condition
and robust health, may come up to
early lnrrowing time, and deliver and
sucltlc her young successfully, with
only corn and water diet and little or
no exercise, but because they do and
have done it, does not argue that TO be
She best way. It's contrary To the ma
ture of the animal, The SOW IL an
ainnivorous feeder, and hy nature Is
rather al herbivorous than granivor-
Gus animal and because corn h the
heat and most convenient iced
Tor iattening hogs, does by no
means warrant the practice of keep
Ing brood-sows wholly on that
iat-producing and heating food. Corn
rXccls ne n fat producer, aud fat in the
animal economy Is not productive of
energy ana force, but OF heat, While
heat Is the first aud essential thing in
the question of existence, IL Is 0ulS
the starting point from which the AMI
mai Is TO advance In tho development
OF energy and growth.
The dam approaching maternity
needs, OF ali other animnls, vitality and
force, and energy and endurance. She
~ approaching the period when her
vital powers nrc go undergo q strain
which eZcels that imposed on The four
0r ten-nile racers. She must not ONLY
have tho vigor and vital force 70 de-
vciop a healthy l,ntus, but she must
have an extra amount Of yigor TO rive
birth 10 the offspring which Is the
climax of natures tax on the vitality
of The female. In all the economy of
nature we have no stage in the ami
mails history, from conception on TO
death which calls for sogreater vitality
aud force, as In successfully giving
birth 60 the offspring. BUT the tax on
The dam's vitality does not end
when the pigs are born Ia her eN-
hausted condition she lies for hours la
quiet, giving nature iime TO rest aud
rally, before she can safely attompt TO
digest food. In this period OF eNhaus.
ton she has \ numerous and hungry
h,mily 10 feed from her own life blood,
Tile future ofthat family. toe, depends
largely ON the quality and quantity OF
The nourishment she Is able to furnish
,heln. Their only diet NJ this critical
state OF their existence is he their
mOther's milk. Ifthat Is ieyeNsh or
tainted by the latent germs az disease
In the dam, their days will be few and
full OF trouble
Of the hnportance OF wholesome
milk for the young of our tioeks and
herds. may write at some future
timc. But the good health ei the dam
sofso great importance that we cannot
anNrd 10 take the risk OF impalring II,
by contlning her TO diet and condition
mat do not oonduce TO health The
breeder who claims thar corn alone is
all the feed u brood.sow needs, has
about as an intelligent idea OF the ma
tufe OF the animal and feed NJ has the
trainer who would expect 10 win
hardly contested race With a horse that