Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-10-15
THE FARM AND HOME.
PORK SUCCESSFULLY GROWN
WITHOUT MILK.
a Profitable Ratlon-Best Wool, Best
Prices BAD Use of weeds-Pa-
rent of wheat-Porlx Point
ers and Home Hints.
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Growing Pork without Mink.
The old-fashioned rule in dairias
where butter was the chief product
sold allowed breeding sow as the
natural complement to each good COW.
1t was calculated that the skinned
milk during the season would give the
pigs start which. with run in
clover pasture or in the apple orchard
would bring them through until fall
with little money expense for feeding.
This rule does not hold good now. for
the reason that skim milk is now re-
gsrded as too expensive feed for pigs.
lt'nas ready sale at half the price
OF whole milk in cities and villages.
This is more than its feeding value
Tor pigs. Indeed. under the old plan.
the SKIM milk from COW kept the
pigs thriftily growing only short
time early in the season. Summer
heat and drought diminished the milk
flow, while at the same time the pigs.
with increasing size. demanded more
than before
Thousand OF pigs are now success
fully grown with no milk except that
they get before being weaned. says
the American Cultivator. Good as
milk is for pigs at very early age
excellent substitutes for It as main
feed are found in ground oats. fine
wheat mill feed and a very little lin.
seed oil meal. Corn is not good
feed for young growing pigs. 1t IS
hard to digest and il fed literally will
surely stunt their growth. 1t is be.
cause corn is so largely relied upon
for feeding that many farmers have
poor luck in growing pigs II we rely
more on other grains the pigs will be
thrifty and grow as fast as they would
on a diet OF milk with cora or corn
meal In fine wheat middlings there
are most OF the constituents OF growth
in nearly as good proportion as tho
are found in skim-milS. The latter is
largely composed OF water its solid
parts comprising only a small proper.
ton so that it takes a good deal Of
milk TO give sufficient nutrIment I'M
less something else is given with 1t.
This is possibly an advantage Most
OF the food given to hogs is too con-
| centrated to be easily digested. Even
the thin slop OF the swiIl barrel com.
posed largely OF dishwa.er has its i'd
vantage in helping distend the pig 5
stomach and thus promote its diges.
ton.
II pigs are confined in pens some
| nutritious vegetable food should be
given them. They will not eat much
clover il it Is cut and thrown to them.
Weeds from the garden. especially
| pig wee1 and chick weed. are much
more to their taste. probably because
their nutritive value is higher. But
there is no garden vegetable eaten so
greedily as sugar beets. They can
be made part of the daily ration a
large portion OF the year. With tn.
and plenty OF wheat middlings breed
ing sOws will need little other feed
| except that while they are sucking
their young some heavier grain or oil
meal must be added to keep tho SOW
from becoming too thin in flesh. II
| she Is kept to breeding, the more fire.
quently she farrows the longer VIII
she keep in good condition for bear
ing thrifty pigs it Is hard to pre-
vent SOW that has borne one or two
litters OF pigs from becoming too fat
for breeding purposes II she Is kept
long without either bearing or suck :
ling pigs. The digestive power OF
breeding animals is necessarily great
ly increased. So il not to breeding
they have to be almost starved to pre-
vent their fattening and when not
breeding they should have food with
as much bulk in proportion to nutri-
ton as they can be made to eat.
Now that the science OF feeding IS
better understood. we believe there is
profit for thousands OF farmers in
growing pork and pigs as their chief
business Much OF the food needed
they can grow on their own land, and
if properly managed it will be worth
more fed to breeding sows and grow :
ing pigs than II sold at market rates
Of course in localities where milk
cannot be readily Sold the skim milk
can be used proftably to supplement
other feeds. Under such manage
ment there will be constant gain
above what appears in tine yearly ac-
counts in the increasing fertility OF
the farm resulting from the home
market and turning into manure Of
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