Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-13
LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT
RAISE ON THE FARM ONLY THE
ANIMALS THAT PAY.

Eats Than a Small One-Us Using the
Scales and n Pencil.
In the fall I took a lot of pigs, weigh
ing nearly 100 pounds apiece, to expert
ment on. think they lacked a very lit
tie Of weighing that, but it was so near
we will call it that. They were fat,
thrifty Chester White pigs, good feeders,
good growers and fat enough to go to
market. I fed them just two months,
and sold them because l thought they
had ceased to be profitable feeders.
When I came to weigh them I found
they had gained just 100 pounds apiece
in the two months. For some reason I
did not weigh them at the end Of the
first month, but, SO far as I could observe,
they gained as much the first month as
they did the second. 1 was not expert
menting so much on the number of
pounds of live pork that could be put on
with a bushel Of corn as I was to know
how much more a large hog ate than a
small one Of the same breed and in the
same condition.
The most I remember about it is that
when sold the pigs, for they were only
, six months old, they were eating just
twice as much as they did when they
were four months old and weighed 100
pounds apiece, and that the last bushel
of corn only put on half as much pork as
the first. It takes a good pig to put on
so pounds a month after it has reached
the first mile stone, marked ~"100pounds;"
but it can be done today, although as a
rule our Chesters and Polands are smaller
boned and smaller hogs than they werea
dozen years ago. Of late years we have
been breeding too much to fill points,
and especially have the Polands deteri-
grated.
With them we left the hog and took
the color, so that tie Poland China of to-
day is not as large as it was when we
had the old spotted hog, having nearly as
much white as black. With them I al
ways calculated to put on so pounds a
month after they had reached the 100
mile stone. With the Polands of today
l find that it is hard work to get q bunch
that will put on SO pounds a month right
along after they get to weighing 100
pounds apiece, unless they have plenty of
milk.
The hog market for the past few
years has been such that it is not neces-
sary to have a hog weighing two or
three hundred in order to get the top Of
the market, in fact it is quite the re-
verse, and I notice among the sales this
winter that pigs weighing 70 or 80
pounds brought the very best prices in
the market, whilst at this time last year
such pigs were selling a full half a cent
higher than heavy hogs. sold pigs last
winter i'll Buffalo that melted me IS. 80 at
home, when heavy hogs only Melted
S 4.75, so that if I do not find winter
feeding so profitable l can ship them
when they are smaller. I propose to
have my pigs ready for market at any
time, and as it ceases to be profitable to
feed I will ship them. The scales and
pencil will tell just when this time
comes, so that there will be no secret
about the matter.-W. S. T~omlinson, in
Ohio Farmer.
Mr.. Wigs Way of Managing a Bull.
noticed some time since the discus
sion in your paper about managing bulls.
Not seeing any better plan than the one
I adopted l will give that plan, so that
your readers need not be afraid Of ever
being gored by the most vicious bull, and
it also prevents them from breaking
gates and fences. First ring the bull,
then get two sharp pieces of chain with
a ring large enough on each to go over
the horns; put rings of the chains on the
horns; now bore a hole horizontally
through each horn just in front of the
rings large enough for a good wire key
to go through and through: insert wire
key or small iron rod, bend the ends on
outside Of horns. Get a lap link and
fasten the other ends in the ring in the
nose; make them short enough so the
nose rings will be drawn up straight.
Get a plank six or eight inches wide
and long enough to extend two inches on
each side Of his eyes, bore holes in plank
and fasten with wire yer his eyes to or
around the rings on the horns, and your
bull will be as docile as a horse. When
he tries to push a fence or gate the board
resting on these chains will tighten them
so as to make the ring in them give him
pain, and after one or two trials he will
cease all attempts to break any kind of a
fence or gate. The board does not inter-
fere in any way with eating, etc. The
most vicious bull will beso cowed that you
can run him all over the lot with an or
binary switch.-J. A. Wigs in Southern
Live Stock Journal.
Chicken Feed.
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