The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-08

burnt wood should be occasionally given;
it corrects the ranciditY of their stomachs
and is great help to them in ether ways.
We feed, in addition to what slops they may
need, and only as much as can be eat up
clean, some sweet cornstalks, and all cut
from the ground. The stalk has goodly
| amount of sugar in it, and is as much rel
| ished as the ears OF corn. When the sow
is near pigging, care should be taken to have
some fine-cut straw thrown into the pen,
and only little, SO that the little fellows
may not be lost in the straw and smothered
or laid upon. Only moderate quantity Of
| food should be given the sow before and
after pigging, and she should be watched to
see that she cares for her young. Some, ii
they have not been fed properly, will eat
their young, and If the pens are not built
tight, and the little pigs get out among the
| other pigs, they will be eaten by them. An
old German gave me a cure for sows eating
their pigs, and it is to give them meat some
days before they pig, though find that it
is much the best to fatten and slaughter all
such wild ones.
After the pigs are few days old they
should be allowed little milk with oats
ground fine and made into thin slop. This
Is one of the best kinds of food, as it con-
tains all the materials that go to make up
the pig, and we find that it is equally good
for all animals, young and old, on the farm
In addition to this food, we give little oats
whole, in clean place on the floor, as it is
a change, and, following the example eff the
mother, they will soon learn 10 eat them
greedily.
Small potatoes, pumpkins, sugar beets,
and mange!s, and turnips, are boiled up in
a large boiler, and after they are thoroughly
cooked, these vegetables are mixed with
several bushels Of mixture Of equal parts
of ground oats, corn and mill feed. This is
a very good food, and fattens rapidly.
This boiler is situated in the market house,
and we use it for variety of purposes-for
boiling feed and water, for scalding hogs.
and for keeping the room warm when we
are preparing vegetables for market. 1t
consists Of large iron pot, holding some 40
gallons, into which water can be pumped
right from the we'll 1t is bricked up, SO
that the hot air can circulate entirely
around IL DeIOre gong OuI VI uue CHIllHoy,
and by so doing, the entire heat is pretty
well used up before it escapes. There are
many better methods than this, but they
are much more expensive; though, if were
going to buy, would get one Of the i'm
proved kind. For all practical purposes this
suits, and several of these big iron pots can
be picked up at the secondhand stores, and
with little ingenuity and some work, can
be made to answer just as well as one cost
ing $50 or more.
In the feeding of pigs, not so much de-
ponds upon fine buildings and appliances as
in having plain, practical pens, and in the
owner either attending to the feeding him
self or in seeing that it is done with regu-
larity, three times day, and the food given
of the required kind and just enough and
no more, and the pens kept clean. Thirty
or forty pigs, well fed and kept abundantly
supplied with litter, will make an immense
amount of manure. and of the best kind
suitable for all crops. They should be al
lowed the run of the barnyard, and at
feeding time, if educated rightly, will go
into their own pens without trouble.