Wichita eagle., 1889-12-19
Continued from Fifth page.l

FONTS or walk on their deer claws, then
sell out and start again avoiding tfe pit
falls already mentioned. If they are buffalo
shaped-sloping from shoulder to ham-De
cure to get a Poland China boar, for in no
other breed OF hogs, so far as my lnforIna-
tion goes. are the hams so fully padded
out IL they droop or crease behind the
shoulders. look well TO your Poland CHINA
boar for this Is one of the occasional de-
fects of that breed. If they are razor
backed. most any thoroughbred VII!
remedy that defect in the offspring II
thew are narrow in the girth directly back
of the shoulders l would eliminate them
from the herd. If your sows are long in
the body, good results will be obtained by
using a short coupled boar. Some p'eed-
ers discard chunky sow, but | have bad
surprising results from such. 1t is in I'M
disputed fact. however, that the majority
of losses from sows in partuitlon are OF
this class. To aid the sow In
delivery, the inventive genius OF
man has been exercised ana
forceps that will very often deliver the
pig alive without injury to the dam are
now in the hands OF most breeders,
have lost in my experience four Vaiuapie
sows and their filters from this cause, ana
know of others who have had severe losses
and while careful treatment OF the sow
when carving her young, such AS laxative
feed and plenty OF exercise VII! tehu 20
lessen the risk, nv advice on the Wnole
would be to discard chunky sows Ior
breeders. In no event would Dreed
chunky boar to chunky SOW unless L
wanted pigs to mature quite young to be
sold as light weights.
Having secured a thoroughbred boar
pig, exercise a little Judgment IN tue care
of him. Ii be costs you 50 or S-o-Ihe
cost of a cow-he is worthy TO occupy
shed nv himself with "A good roof aud
II. oil cir hg1t
which should open into yard, where ne
can exercise his roofing propenslties ana
work the cramps out OF his legs. IL Is
better that he should receive visits, ana
brief ones from bis harem, one at a Time,
and if it can be avoided not more thah one
day during the breeding season, imam 10
turn him into heard of fifteen or twenty
sows. third of which are probably on the
"war path" at the same time. A vigorous
boar If not misused when he IS young, VIII
be in his prime at four years old, aud ms
get of pigs will he stronger and healthier,
other conditions being the same, than
these got when he was eight or ten months
old.
A Young boar should be fed at all times
as much as he will eat up clean, and his
diet AS well as that TOR breeding soWs,
should not consist OF more than one-thlrd
corn. The sows should have free access at
times to grass or clover, and especially IN
the winter and early spring when they are
carving their young 40 green rye or wheat.
The practice of allowing brood sows ana
fattening hogs in the same yards, fed
in the same manner on dry corn
is to be condemned. Brood sows
should run together IN an enclosure
of their own aud while they should be
improving in condition from the time they
becamed pregnant until they narrowed
their pigs. They should no time be III
that condition known as "hog fat" The
argument in favor of this treatment IS.
that if she becomes pregnant when thin
in flesh she is liable to be more prolific. If
she is not loaded down with fac she viii
take more exercise, and in narrowing she
is less clumsy, more on the alert, and less
liable TO lie on her pigs. In the climate OF
southern Kansas the sows should BEGIN TO
sarrow by the 22nd of February. and If the
herd is large one il Will be no detrlment
to have them coming along until the 1st
of June. 4 portion of the herd might be
bred for second litter to farrOw between
the 1st of September and the 18th OF Oc-
tober, but no breeder should undertake to
do this unless he has patch Of rye or
winter wheat for them to run on IN mild
weather, and dry wa m quarters to shelter
them from storms. Summer pigs are not
considered desirable, ana yet we once had
a bunch, twenty in number. that came in
the middle of July. They were allowed to
patch Of rye in the winter They We're
given all the mixed feed, ground and
made into slop, that they could eat up
clean, and were further coaxed along by
an allowance of soaked corn. When eight
and one-half months old they were
marketed here in Wichita and averaged
3l3 pounds. The credit of the feeding be-
longs to Mr.. X. S. Cook.
The dam when sucking her litter should
not be confined to a diet of dry corn. Any
one but novice knows that corn has a
tendency to produce fever and dry up the
milk. Ground rye, wheat bran and chop
ped corn in equal proportions, varied at
times with soaked corn viii, as rule,
furnish a sufficient flow of healthy milk to
keep the pigs growing until they are a
month old, or whereabouts. They
should then have access to an en-
closure where they will not be
disturbed by large pigs and
quantity of dry oats should be scattered
on the floor, this to be followed up with
soaked corn and thin slOp or milk poured
into shallow troughs. At eight or ten
months old they should gradually be
weanrd from the sow. The pigs now
should be pushed right along castrating
the males on favorable opportunity. At
ten months old they should average 800
pounds. This at SO. 50 per hundred would
make 5000 per head. Counting corn at
20 cents per bushel and an average OF p
bushels feed TO each hog, would make So,
thus leaving profit the farmer approx
mating loo per cent.
This calculation looks well on paper and
In theory is correct. There many farm
ers in Kansas this year who will make
their hogs average more than 800 pounds
on % bushels of corn ard instead of corn
being 20 cents per bushel, they find it goes
begging IN some localities at l3 cents per
bushel. There are farmers IN Kansas who
will clear 125 per cent on their corn crop in
feeding hogs. This is the bright side of
che picture. We reverse it and what do
we behold. Full corn cribs, empty hog
lots, and an odor of lime, carbolic acid and
ali the other IS stinks OF cologne
The great draw back to swine husbandry
rs financial success lies unQuestiopably
in the fatality of that dread desease known
as hog cholera W hen it RACES as an cpl
Zootlc nine farmers out of ten whose herds
IRE infected might as well shut up shop
Notwithstanding ali the assurances of So
called experts and quack doctors who
claim to have discovered a specific for il,
results have proven it Il delusion and
snare.
The loss by this desease in the United
States Is estimated at an average OF eiph-
teen millions OF dollars annually. In
Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden and
France 1t has made great inroads of late
years, AT times almost destroying the COM
merclal value OF swine. Leading scien-
title men of the age under the patronage
Of the governments they represent, are en-
gagged IN making exhaustive experiments
ON the cause and nature of the desegse
with a view 30 stamping IL out.
They have accomplished something
10 locating and diagnosing the
the disease but as for providing a remedy.