Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-11-14
FROM BREEDERS GUIDE.
Clover is a cheap feed for hogs.

A hog that is fully satisfied with his
stomach wants to sleep.
It Is getting cool now, and the hogs
should have little bedding.
"A healthy sow that is sucking lit
ter OF pigs is ravenous eater.
A young brood sow should not be
bred until she is a year old at least.
Now that you have shut the pigs up
in pens give them variety Of feed.
Hogs that are given the run of a good
pasture should have access to all the
salt they can eat.
A Berkshire sow at the Windsor farm
Colorado, has raised twenty-eight
healthy pigs this year.
II from any cause you are compelled
to keep your hogs confined see that
they are well supplied with green feed.
Early maturity is an important item
with hogs, and If this is secured it is
very necessary to feed we'll at this
time.
The majority of hog diseases are con-
tagious, so that as soon as noticed the
sick animals should be separated from
the well ones.
Such materials should be supplied
them as are best adapted to the grow
ing and development of bone and mus
Gle.
The best plan is to have a tight plank
floor to feed upon, and a dry earth
floor upon which bedding can be thrown
for bed.
Oats make better feed than corn for
the development of bone and muscle,
but one bushel of corn is worth three of
oats for fattening.
1t is sometimes possible to secure some
improvement by cross breeding, but it
is not permanent and will prove so in
breeding again.
A sire with long line of bred ances-
try will make his impression upon his
pigs to greater extent than the sow,
other things of course being equal.
What are you doing with the apple
pomace? Do not let it go to waste. If
properly pitted it will make good feed
for the hogs during the winter.
If the pigs are turned into the clover
fields and they commence roofing
where it is not desired the best plan is
to put rings in their snouts at the
start.
Always use a thorough bred male.
In this way the quality can be grad
ually improved, while with a grade or
half breed the quality is certain to re-
trogate.
A gill ofcarbolic acid in bucket of
water springled over the floors of the
pig pens and over the yard will be
founda considerable help in purifying
these places.
A gentleman from the rainbelt of
Colorado says that the farmers in that
country are engaging in hog raising.
They realize that their salvation is
largely hinged upon the hog.
Farmers in the west have made q
good success in growing and fattening
hogs on straight alfalfa. The animal
will not put on so much lard as a grain
fattened one, but will make equally as
good meat.
Do wild hogs have cholera? asks a
writer. No, sir, nature knows o good
deal too much to have anything of the
kind. Even the old razor-back never
died until it was stuck with knife run
in clear out ofsight.
When man buys lot of young
shoats in fine shape he should know
how they have been kept. If he is not
able to give the same or better keeping
the pigs will not thrive in, his hands:
the same is true of large hogs changing
hands when in high flesh.
Mr.. John B. Thompson, in this issue
expresses his belief that the Berkshire
hog is the best breed raised. If any of
our readers can show that other breeds
are superior to the Berkshire we would
be pleased to grant them space in the
Guide to present their superior points.
1t is we'll to remind every grower
that if there is time in the year when
the hogs need salt above any other it is
when their ration is green corn. They
should also have ashes in abundance;
coal cinders from our stoves and CRATES
are much better than nothing of this
nature for them to eat as an absorbent.