The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-12
PIG FEEDING AND PORK.
How to Produce Mountain of Fat from
Healthy Little Pig,


a Healthy Little Pig.
So long as there is a demand for fat
hogs there must be a supply; and, of
course, the question with the farmer Is,
how can most rapidly and cheaply
produce the largest possible mountain
of fat from my, at present healthy little
pig9 Prof Browne, of the Ontario Ag-
ricultural College, after testing the
question with d large ntn1bet of anil
mails and in variety of ways, declares
that ''raw peas are fifty per cent. cheap
er than cooked peas, and cheaper than
Indian corn in any form" Of course
the latter point would depend upon the
price of the two commodities. AS to
the best manner Of feeding, a farmer
11eighbor of mine, who raises one or
two very fat hogs every year, finds that
upon the one-meal-a-day plan he never
fails to secure G) a large frame, (2)
extreme fairness finally, and 60 freN-
dom from sickness, all of which he HUI
morously attributes to (G excepting 'em
happy and contented."
His neighbors' pigs, fed three or four
times day, are, SO he says, ''squealing
all The time they amt eatin' " while his
own ''get UP and eat their one square
meal, and then lie down an sleep most
of the time" One season, raising three
pigs, he made Il. e., exclusive of weight
of the animals when he bought them)
1850 pounds of pork in 100 days, an
average of seven pounds or two and one
third pounds, each, day. The last
two months the trio consumed, on an
average, ten quarts raw corn-meal
day. The dry meal was turned on top
of fresh water Ga pailful or two) in the
trough. Thus only were they watered
and fed. When killed, though not
fully up to the Straasburgh geese,
which are fed for fat livers (for the
famous pates de foie gras so beloved by
gourmets) and which are SO accurately
diagnosed by the expert attendant, that
only those are killed to-day that would
die an unnatural death from silver
complaint tomorrow; still the fat dis
ease was developed fully up to, in fact,
above the average.
So much for the question of excess
lively fat, instead of meaty or feshy
animals With regard to the desir-
ability of hogs of the latter class, an
observing writer has remarked thar
out-of-door pigs would not show so
well at the fairs, and would probably
be passed by judges and people who
have been taught only to admire only
the fat and helpless things which get
the prizes, and which are, truly enough
well adapted to fill lard kegs; but the
standard of perfection should be pig
which will make the most ham with
the least waste of fat, the largest and
deepest sides with the most lean meat.
It should also have bone enough to
allow it to stand up and help itself to
food and carry with it the evidence Of
health and development in all its parts.
Without work or exercise, the
muscular system, that is the flesh or
lean meat, can never be largely de-
.yeloped, but on the contrary, it begins
to degenerate with all living creatures
the moment exercise ceases. The out
door air and exercise which makes the
muscle, will as surely develop the whole
organism, and not only produce a long,
large frame, and furnish the solid leg
bones to bear it erect. An acquaint-
ance who prides himself on raising lin
barn cellar on manure heapD
healthy pig pork" for his own family,
instead of buying the Western produced
article (where the poor animals are ex-
posed to pure air and corn on the cob)
once remarked of his Christmas pig:
why, even the bones are so tender
that they chew up almost like the meat
itselfi' This illustrates | may say in
passing, the condition of fat, ''rickety''
children. No matter how ''hard and
good" their fat is described to be, it is
ase kind | have been talking about; and
il we could look beneath the wretched
stuff, we would find the muscular and
nervous systems very lean and atten
ua.ed just as we do in the case of fat
sheep and hogs. 20. r. P0iqe II D.,
IA \. y Tribune