The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-11-05
FARMER AND PLANTER.
FATrENlNa SWINE,
Opportune Suggestions Upon Timely
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Opportune Suggestions Upon d Timcl.
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If hogs have been properly developed
and are full fed though not upon tot
concentrated food, they will take or
flesh very rapidly. Sometimes they
will lay on flesh to the amount of two
and half pounds day, but this is ex
traordinary. There are some essen
tials in fattening, which are too fire.
quently disregarded and Indifferent
success is the result In the first place
cleanliness should distinguish the in.
closure. Hogs will not fatten salts
factorily in filthy mirage, nor where
they are compelled or permitted tc
drink impure water, which will be most
likely the case in an inc1osure that Is
wet and miry. 1t is a good plan, when
it is possible, to have u good surface
drainage, but at all events let some
means be devised to insure dryness, and
let there be full supply of good,
wholesome water.
1t is somewhat difficult to determine
the space which the Enclosure should
occupy, but it is enough to say that it
should be sufficiently large to promote
tho comfort of the animal. At this
season and until cold weather they
should be allowed to run freely on
grass, for in the first stages of fatten-
ing the muscular system must not be
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hogs, and the fat-producing foods will
not make muscle. Tho sudden change
from bulky diet, such as grass; to q
more concentrated food exclusively,
is often attended with the most serious
results, which are avoided If the animal
is judiciously fed on corn or other fat
producing food and not allowed to run
on grass at the same time.
| When cold weather comes and the
hogs arc taken from the pasture they
will not need very large Enclosure.
The pen should be dry and warm, and so
arranged that the sleeping apartment
is distinct from where the animals
leave their droppings. The hog is
clearly animal, if ho has chance to be
so, and it never leaves it's droppings
whore it sleeps if it can prevent it. Any
intelligent person must certainly per-
coivc the danger of compelling the ami
NAL to live in it's own filth or any filth.
great many of the various diseases,
which for convenience perhaps, or prob
ably often in ignorance, are called
cholera" spring from this sort of treat
ment
In the matter Of feeding concentrated
foods the animal should be gradually
fed up to the amount it will eat and
then regularly fed all that it will eat
up clean and no more. The animal
never should be surfeited, but Just
given enough. 1t should come to each
meal with keen appetite. If We will
pause to think what surfeiting really
means, we will readily SEQ why tshouid
be avoided If we ourselves become
surfeited, we know that the system be-
comes Frustrated to some degree, and
that we do not feel we'll, especially in
tho presence Of food. 1t is the same
with the hog. His condition when sur
fcited is really more or less
condition of ill-health. The best
results do not depend so much
upon the quantity fed as they
do upon the quantity properly digosted
and assimilated. When hog refuses
to eat from any cause, for a single day,
it is set back several days. Good feed
ing consists in simply giving all the hog
will eat without destroying its appe tite.
After feeding for fattenng has once
been begun, there should be a steady |
increase up to the point of suf1iciency,
and never decrease Corn, of course,
is the principal food, but it is advisable
to feed cooked potatoes and pumpkins, |
mixed with mil! stuffs, once a day.
Plenty of trough room is a necessity.
and plenty of pure water should be
supplied twice day. The hog will
drink great deal of water, as the
practical hog-raiser we'll knows. The
greatest care should be exercised to so
iced that the animal will not be COM
peled to eat filth as we'll as it's food. |
! corn is fed it should be fed upon a
dry floor if possible. Neither good
pork nor much of it can como from
feeding filth. The sailing of hogs is
very important matter, and they will
not and can not do we'll without a regu-
lar supply of salt. 1t should be given
them once day, and can be given in
ground oats--or in cooked mixture
mentioned above.
If the directions given are followed
tho results will BIO satisfactory. Hog
raisers should make it an object to pro-
luce pork that is healthy and good in
avery respect. There is a deep-seated
prejudice against pork under the most
'avorablo circumstances, and it is to the
interest Of pork producers to remove
his. Bat poor and diseased pork can
'nly increase this prejudice. In all our
markets there is pork that is not fit for
and consumers know it, AS
his paper has frequently said good
pork is good food and healthy food, and,
'ftor awhile, il the pork raisers strive
o produce good pork, the universal
public will learn this fact Western
Rural.
WORK FOR WOMEN.