The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-02-07
fake Care Of the Pig.

The hog Is universal Wherever civilized
man goes, he goes, and in some cases a, least
he h as civilized a. man. His tender flesh
may b. too rich for poets and dyspeptics, but
Severe physical labor, especially in the open
aiY, may be better SUSTAINED on Il pork diet
than on any other meat
The hog is not more prone 20 disease than
other animals. Sickness comes 80 him only
because his protector, man, does not under
stand his requirements and delicate conStitu
ton Much Of what is called swine cholera
for instance, is the result of feeding him moth,
ng but corn diet. Corn and hog cholera gC
together. This valuable article Of food is fat.
tening. hat il Is also beating and copstipating.
Il will Io: produce muscle Every swine
raiser knows that il is disastrous to teei brood
.Ows on corn alone.
No The zig must have variety Of food a,
well as man. Roots, wheat mililincs and
bran and clover hay are among the hest foods
20 mix with the corn. Nothing can be better
than tuynjys boiled and fed with bran or With
tbe clover hay. The hay, too, is boiled pre-,
vio,S to feeding by some Of the best swine
rnisers. The turnips can he grown upon
ground from which early potatoes have been
dug, and thus tho soil twice utilized. pota-
toes too small for use by man, the pig will be
thankful for and eat gladly, at once making
juicy pork steaks for his owner aud saving
what would otherwise be dead loss and
waste. Potatoes are valuable food for
swine. A writer in the Agriculturist says
that be has fe to his hogs in addition to the
articles above mentioned about 500 bushels of
spples, which he bought mostly for tben-foI'
dessert, as il we're. The animals tuived
sburdantly on the fruit Here, too, Is saw
ing, for apples too small and knotty for
marketing may he gathered at Sigh. expense
and saved TO give varie Y 10 the winters feed
II hogs. 1t is enough to feed the corn plenti-
fully when il is wanted to lay on fat at
marketing time. Then, too, the corn should
se shelle-l and fed from a decent, stationary
trough, and not thrown st random into Il
muck of filth and mud. A hog treated in
such q nasty way will become diseased and
de, infallibly.
Much attention is being paid to hog breed
ing at present, and those who are giving il are
being repaid tenfold The Poland China is
me Of the best general breeds in the country.
1t is represented in our engraving. The i'm
moved large Yorkshire has also been found
most desirable, especially when crossed with
ahe Berkshire or Cheshire white.
The Pig Pen.
Neither is the hog a dirty animal when de-
Gently treated. 1t is exposure, slovenly sur
soundings, improper food and dirty drink
that make herds Of swine sicken and die of.
This Is becoming understood ct last
The model pen Is built in two parts. One
end Is left Of bare earth for the animals to
root in as they like. At the other Is raised
floor, elevated eight to ten inches from the
ground. Here the hogs have dry, covered
place to sleep in. The floor is made OF strips
nailed on a quarter Of an inch apart, so that
the moisture may run through Upon this Is
placed straw. Roofing into straw stacks and
beapinS together under them in piles upon
one another overheats hogs Then, the next
thing, they will be exposed, unprotected, to
the northerly blizzard, steaming hot as they
are When they take cold aud die it Is Wis
xation Of Providence.
The hog must also have bis drink Of clean,
pure water. He is given every abomination
n his swill, from the soapeuds Of the weeks
wash to the contents Of soured tomatocans.
Foul water Is as hurtful to hogs as to horses
Or COWS, and the sooner farmers Learn this
net the better. The hog drinks impure
water because hs is good-natured, and doesn't
refuse anything; but it Is this very thing
which introduces the true hogcholern germ
into him Then when this disease attacks
him, and the herd dies by the hundred, onos
more it i o visitation Of Providence.
In order to facilitate cleanliness in swfne-
kesp,Ag what is called dumping pig
Trough has been lately invented Il b fixed
in the edge Of the pen and made b tip out
v1rdly 50 Is to deposit outside the pen IL
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