The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-25

she il in q perfect state Of health, ther
the pigs will be. If not the pigs will
suffer first, while you may not see the
least thing wrong about the SOW. Pigs
ALWAYS seem to draw all disease out Of
a SOW: while the SOW grows better,
they grow worse. If a lot Of sows have
piled up together, and the hired mar
feeds them corn In pile, and they
Jump over, or crawl through, or under
Improper places and fight, expect some
dead pigs Perhaps q kick in the
belly or the chasing of q dog, may
get away with some more. But never
stop to think Of the cause or try to pre-
vent; always say it IL bad luck.
Divide up the sows; make more
rens; put the old fighterseby them.
selvee; nail in partitions In the sleep
ing apartments so that not more than
four can sleep together. Put all sows
under one year old by themselves. You
can never keep your sows in proper
breeding condition to feed them all
alike. An old SOW does not need more
than two-thirds the feed young one
does; 80 make q place to divide the
young sows by fencing in small lot
on the side of the feed lot, leaving an
opening Just large enough to let the
poorer ones pass into this lot, so that
even they can be extra fed. Always
put your best swill In their lot first. In
winter feed them sorghum, clover hay,
turnips, rotten apples, potatoes. soaked
oats or dry, If too cold. We have fed
as high as 900 bushels Of oats year,
for the last FIVE years. We try to
write what We know. The pig and the
SOW need less corn, or fever food, and
more bone and muscle feed. Who
cares If they do not look 90 plump and
fat-and some braging farmer. comes
around and saye, "your hogs do not
look as well as mine."
We are after pigs this year. There
is money in them, and hardly any In
anything else except the bank. II
possible, turn them out on a patch OF
clover. The SOW needs vegetable food,
milk, greasy house.slops, and if she is
fat on these, and has plenty ofexercise,
she is all right. Keep her bowls open
and see that her water Is clear; ii yell
low, it indicates something wong, or
If costiye. you may not expect good
luck with pigs. Ifyou are still dry
lot farmer, and can get no green stuff
for your sows, then do this way. Buy
five or ten gallons of black machine
oil-really crude coal oil-which ought
not to cost over twenty cents gallon.
One month before and one month after
farrowing, feed each SOW, in her swill
four tablespoonful daily and as near as
you can otherwise as 1 have directed,
and your SOW will have no difficulty in
having pigs or raising them.
My next peighbor had no luck for
two years He dared not buy out of
the stock yards, as he once thus got
the cholera, sc ne four years ago, and
did not want him to bring the chol.
era near me, and told him how to raise
pigs. He bought barrel of black oil
at fifteen cents a gallon. He feeds bran
and oil slops, and the first five sows
raised 81 pigs, and he has had over 200
since, and q black, shiny herd, and
don't have to buy stock hogs.
Don't allow your hogs ever to drink
any water but such as is clear and
pure. I never had my hogs do better
than they have since they drink out OF
a nose-trough fed by windmill, but I
carried water to them in buckets often
ten to fifteen rods, eight gallons at q
time, before, but now they drink day
and night. 1 see that they have ashes
and salt twice a week, occasionally put
in q paper Of coda to q. barrel of swill.
for this and plenty of charcoal will
keep their stomachs sweet, and diges-
ton first-class. I kdve never EnoWn
q herd, to be thus cared for, to hare
the cholera. Read this over again, and
it will save you hundred dollars this
year, and don't let the hired man do it
do il yourself.