The Springdale news., 1889-08-30
Raising Pork.

10 not keep the SWlne penned up in summer Do not incite in causing them to take extra exercise in hot weather if they are fat. It will do them good to give them a chance to root, The hog is naturally a rocjter: Give them grass apples, fruits of any kind for which you have no use. Hogs fatten rapidly on sweet corn. Feed them green stalks, even if you have other uses for the corn. Sugar-cane and sorghum are similar in value to sweet corn. Swine will cat many weeds to their own advantage and of course to the advantage of the land. In an article in tho Agriculturist Mir. K. D. Curtis expresses the Stockman 5 ideas very nearly in the matter of feeding He says that the cheap est food makes the best pork. The reason is, it is the lcan- est. Lean pork then being tho best, we should try to make it, Con- tinemcnt in pens tends to increase the Tat. Exercise develops the muscles. The muscular part is the best food. The fat is largely waste. We make fat to throw it away. People buy hams not for the fat, but for the lean
 When the fat is wasted it makes the lean cost just so much more. Reduce the fat and increase the lean. Can this bo done? Certainly. In this way: Keep tho pigs all their lives in the pasture. Feed skim-milk and bran. Keep corn away from them. Give them vegetables and apples with the bran. When the bodies or frames arc grown, give them oatmeal or rye, ground entire, mixed with bran, put ting in twice as much bran as rye. Keep up the vegetable and apple diet, and allow them during this time to eat all tho grass they will A little corn may be fed toward the end. Pork made in this way will have more lean, and De tender and juicy. At Kirby Home stead by using turnips, they have pro- duced hams sevcnty-fve per cent. lean. The fat is something more tl--~ mere lard animal oil It is meat, W.. tho substance and grain of meat. To get such pork is worth trying for and it is ' in demand. The sausage and the other \ food products made from such pig meat are superior in quality and taste. There is a tenderness and flavor which | enhances the value. Pigs should not ! be fed so much or gorged tO such an extent that they will not 20 out into tho pasture. An active pig will make better meat than a helpless one made 1 50 by lack of true muscle and vigor. | It is advisable to plant apple trees | for early ripening, in order to give the pigs start. Fifty trees Of this kind have been set this year at Kirby Homestead, including twenty Early Harvest Apples do not make fat pork, but they do make plenty of lear meat, and that of extra quality. Pump kins can be utilized in the same way. | Gradually the requireme' of con- | sumers for more lean pork will open the eyes of farmers to tho lat, that the Consumers arc right and wceom
 have less of the greasy. indigestibrC animated lard tubs called "early ma. tured pork" The most weight in the shortest time is heresy which has broken down lots of American stomachs and Set thousands ol people against pork. There is no animal or the farm which can bo turned to bet
 ter account than the hog to utilize wastes and cheap foods, and as d factor for enrithing the farm. For a steady diet give the pig grass. Ma tional StocEman.