Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

the evening every day, with some of the
der right conditions be allowed to run in
the cows pasture after three or four
o clock In the evening if the farmer or an
attendant is about the barn aud iors at
tending the chores, or where he may he AZ
sight. Without exception it Is desirable
after service. to separate COW or heitrr
from he he-& As we'll as from Tts, l.u
Shutting up In 4 barn or shed out of sigh
for twenty four hours is the lest = lie,
Always feed the bail little grain on tax
ing him to his paddock, ana there viii
seldom be any trouble. But handle him
with care at all times.
The Pig-Pen
The pig-pen and yard cannot be made
too clean. They should be well scraped
and cleaned, and the manure drawn away
and put where it will do the most good
Use plaster in the pen and yard freely as d
deorodizer. A dlslnfectant will do nc
harm during any weather.
1t is good way to feed pigs in a side
pen, from which the SOW only is excluded
until they get so used to feeding that taey
will supply all the wants of the system
and make out slight drafts on the mother
Then feed them and shut them away
from the sow, and they will not miss hel
so much, but will go right on growing al
if nothing unusual had happened
fresh clover patch to which they can have
access in summer will be a great bel p IL
making them forget their mother and IL
supplying needed nutriment See that
they have access to comfortable anC
clean quarters, with a clean and dry nesr
to sleep in.
Pigs often contract mango or other skin
diseases by not being properly sheltered
and not having dry nest to sleep In. The
nest should be made of good clean straw
and not that which is bacRened with mil
dew or partially decayed. Such decayine
straw is full of all sorts of vegetable and
animal microbes, and pigs crawling into
it with wet skins would give such of these
microbes as could flourish in such a place
chance to terminate and propagate, and
thus develop parasitic skin diseases.
Furthermore the breathing Of these
micropic organisms and their germs might
cause lung disease, or poison the whole
system, disorders with which the pig is toe
often afflicted. 1t is not good for young
pigs to be exposed to cold rains. 1t is bet,
ter to shelter them, except in dry weather,
and to always give them d chance to sleep
IN warm, dry bed.
The closer milk is skinned, of the less
value is it for feeding purposes, as the
presence Of a certain amount of fat is
necessary to enable the pig to digest and
assimitate it. 1t must be filled that is,
have foreign fat added to it-and it is rea-
sonable to suppose that this filling" is no
more effective and satisfactory than such
a foreign element is in 'flled cheese.
Nature puts into the milk just the kind of
fat and the proportion requisite to make
suitable food OF it. Take out the fat, and
the solids are indigestable or only partial
ly digestible. 1t is said that an excess of
skinned milk fed to pigs makes tough
meat. Why not? 1t is tough food and
unnatural. It is therefore better to feed
more heavily of foods containing fat, as
these mingle somewhat with the milk and
thus aid in making a soluabe curd in the
pigs stomach. For his purpose there is
nothing better than corn meal with the
addition of a little oil meal.