Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-23
START THE SHOATS EARLY.
Suggestions from n Man Who Always
Makes Money on Hogs.

Suggestions from a Man Who Always
Makes Money on Hogs.
One Of my old hobbies becomes dearer
to me in proportion as it grows older. I
am sure it has a big money value that
has never been anything like fully APP
preciated, and if by touching Oh it now
can be the means Of putting money into
the pockets of even q few of the many
who look to these columns every week
for ideas ont of which cash can be evolv-
ed. or if Lean point the way by which
some OF them can, if they will, realize
fifty or sixty cents a bushel for a whole
lot of corn that they would otherwise
market at thirty or forty cents. your
space and their time will not be taken
up in vain.
allude to the subject of getting the
winters output of fat hogs to fattening
right away-utilizing to the fullest every
one of the next hundred days, the best Of
all the year for the purpose, and not re-
lying for good results on the old and
fintlike corn of last year or the year be-
fore, but on the green corn now growing
in the fields in full milk. If there is any
thing on earth better to put promptly a
lean and hungry shoat, fevered, consti-
pated and discouraged-made so by an
alleged pasture of sunburned stubble,
alias grass, and wallow water-in a con-
dition of peaceful, prosperous, profitable
and smiling plumptitude than an un-
stinted (mind, | say an unstinted) supply
of green corn with all it's stalks. blades
and ears, morning and evening, l have
never yet encountered it face to face.
However, | have never known such
shoats to be retarded in their rapid pro-
gress toward healthy obesity by having
a little that was fresh about noon time.
Some good breeders think disturbing
their hogs in the middle Of the day to
induce them to eat at hat time is not
altogether desirable; but they will not
eat more than they can digest, and all
they will digest and assimilate is, | take
it. about what they should have during
such all important period of their lives.
They will eat an astonishing quantity
of the fodder lis we'll as ears, but by no
means all of it.; all that they eat seems
to do them good, but if compelled to eat
more of the fodder by having an INSULT
cheney of corn they will not thrive so
fast, the stalks and blades alone not pos
sessing the necessary fattening proper
ties. To feed not less than twice a day
as much as they will clean up the ears
from-besides much of the fodder-while
making more work and being less con-
venient than giving a larger quantity at
once and lot SO fresh, pays we'll, as the
fresher it is at each feeding the greater
the avidity and relish with which it is
eaten.
At first blush it may seem to feeders
who have not tried it to be a reckless
waste of their immature new corn to
chop it down. wagon load after wagon
load, and dump it day after day before a
lot Of swine that act for a time as if they
would never get quite enough, but | am
free to say that whatever the price of
hogs, o. corn either, | have never real
lied such satisfactory returns for II
other 0 7 | raised as from that planted
early and showed right out to the hogs in
generous abundance, stalks and all, from
C1C IA411O ~ "tto III ldll lOGoGll!S cdl.
This does not apply alone to late varie-
ties of field corn, but to early sweet corn.
some of the larger varieties of which
yield tremendously of fat ears rich as
cream, with much fodder. A small
tract Of fertile ground affords a great
deal Of this sort of feed, because it can
be planted much more thickly than
would be best with larger dent corns that
are intended to stand in the field until
matured.
None of this talk is intended as argu-
ment against giving the hogs fed with
green corn some from the old crop: put
it where they can get a it and eat all
they will. be it little or much. If con-
venient to soften it by soaking so much
the better; it cannot help doing them
good. The point | would make is, do
no fritter away the most valuable, the
golden months Of all the year, because
you may be out of old corn and you
think the shoats will get along somehow
in the pasture" until the new corn is
ripe, for it is protitably possible to well
nigh "make" the hogs before the season
for ripe corn, and nearby storms make
easy, quick fattening quite uncertain
F. D. Coburn in Breeders Gazette.
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