The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-08-18
THE FARM AND HOME.
PORK SUCCESSFULLY GROWN
WITHOUT MILK.
Profitable Ration--Best Wool, Beet
Prices Bad Use of weeds-Pa-
rent of Wheat-porls Point
ers and Home Hints
Growing pork without MIX.

Growing Pork without MILK.
The old-fashioned rule in diaries
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.
his rule does not hold good now, for
the reason that Skim milk is now re-
garded as too expensive feed for pigs.
II has a ready sale at half the price
OF whole milk in cities and villages.
This is more than its feeding value
for pigs. Indeed, under the old plan,
the skim milk from a COW kept the
pigs thriftily growing only a short
time early in the season. Summer
heat and drought diminished the milk
sfoW, 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 a main
feed are found in ground oats, fine
wheat mill feed and very little lin
seed oil meal Corn is not a good
feed for young growing pigs. 1t is
hard to digest. and if 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. If we rely
more on other grains the pigs will be
thrifty and grow as fast as they would
on diet of milk with corn or corn
meal. In fine wheat middlings there
are most of the constituents of growth
in nearly as good proportion as they
are found in skim-milk The latter IS
largely composed Of water, its solid
parts comprising only small proper
ton, so that it takes good deal Of
milk to- give sufficient nutrlment un.
less something else is given with it.
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 swill barrel, COM
posed largely Of dishwater. has it's ad-
vantage in helping distend, the pigs
stomach and thus promote its diges.
ton. - ..-z
If pigs are confined in pens some
nutritious vegetable food should be
given Thorn. They will not eat much
clovcr if it is cut and thrown to them
Weeds from the garden especially
Z pig Weed 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 this
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 the sow
from becoming too thin in flesh. If
she is kept to breeding, the more fire.
quently she farrows the longer Will
she keep in good condition for bear
ing thrifty pigs 1T is hard to pre-
vent sow that has borne one or two
litters of pigs from becoming too fat
for breeding purposes. if she is kept
long without either bearing or, suck
ling pigs The digestive power of
breeding animals is necessarily great
~ increased. So if 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,o: leeding is
better understood. we believe there is
profit for thousands OF armers 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 j. sold at market rates.
OF course in localities where milk
cannot be readily sold. the skim milk
can be used proftably to supplement-
other leeds Under such manage.
ment there will be constant gain
above what appears in the yearly ac-
counts in the increasing FERTILITY OF
the farm resulting from the home
market and turning into manure of
most Of it's products.