Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-08-20
HOGS OF HIGH DEGREE.


Their Successful Management Indicated
by an txp.rt.
The first requisite In the n "cefsfuI
management o. herd Of hogs Is pasture.
This may consist Of any or all tho clover
and grasses best adapted to cur vicinity
After the pigs ARE woaned the sow need.
hut little if anything more than the run
Of "a good pasture with shade aud wato,
and dry place to sleep until the wca,h
err gets cold. | motor only one litter
and that IN the spring ms early as con.
vcnicnccs and climate will allow with o
fair chance Of raising th, pigs. II ON
sows have had nothing but grass through
the summer aud fall would begin feed
ing them u Light ration Of grain or sloI
two or three weeks before coupling
them, thereby having them IN a guod.
thrifty, growing condition NJ tho time
Of coupling. and then keep them grow
ing all tho time until they farrow, bat
not ON uu exclusive corn dict nor shut
up In close pen or yard.
Give them the run Of the stalk fields
and pastures rs much rs you do your
stock cattle and colts. Tor two months
before inrrowing the sow should have
plenty Of oats with bran slop or other
bone making food After fnrowing
feed nothing but water for two or three
days, then a light feed Of bran or oat
slop, increasing daily 30 ~ to hayo nor
on full feed o. slup Ia ten or fifteen
days, recording TO the izo Of tho Litter.
Then bcgp with % light feed Of corn and
increase daily until the pigs arc I week.
Old, WHOM II she has large litter. Won
can feed her an the corn she will eat.
always giving all the slop sho will drinl
before feeding the corn. A httlo oil.
meal mixed with the slop aids digestion.
lwould care for the boar In summer
aud through the coupling season the
same as for SONS, as near ~ my sur.
rouudings would allow. Az TO farruw.
ing pens, after the past two months Ok
pcriencc, II | could have THINGS as wi n
4 would have each pen separate ana
largo enough TO have side trough in
H. which | would tempt the little fcl
lows To cat when or . weeks old.
with sweet milk, whole oats, corn. etc
lwould have this pen dry aud connect
ed with yard ton or twelve feet square
dry, II had door It above mud aud
wntor, and would have the yard open
into tho pasture.
After the pigs have l,..rncd to cat IL
their side dish, feed them all tho be-
oats aud Efforts slop, with little oil
meal, they win drink three times a DAY.
with little soaked corn afterward
When they are o wcel;s old litter
may be combined, putting twenty {,
twenty-five pigs together with Their
dams. Let them havo The run Of PES
tures, muddy or not, from now on.
They must have cxcrciseto get bone and
muscle. When the pigs urc months
old shut the sows away from the feed
ing place and feed them nothing bu
water, Let them run Ia the pasture
and the pigs with them, tho pigs going
In aud out Of feed yard through hole,
too small for the sows. sows havin
nothing but water soon dry up. aud pic.
wcan themselves without any setback.
Feed pigs all the oats, shorts aud brai
slop thoy will eat, with little soaked
corn after stopping, with plenty of gras
in big pasture aud ut O months Of ag,
you will have large boned, growthy
muscular pigs, standing well ON then
toes and weighing 200 10 9al pound
each. Thor stumachs have been dis.
tended with slop aud grass aud have q
capacity 10 hold corn aud Il digestive
To animilato or turn q int
pork Ia 70 manner surpriliuy to one wh,
Inns never tried this method. Cull youi
pigs nowi feed the culla for pork, Bal
nncc feed as bcforo cuiling Gud YOU can
send out pigs to customers that viii be
useful as breeders and JOY 10 thei
owners when turned into pork and thl
pork into money-tho final end Of all
hogs, LIN, Van Aul,en at Iowa Swine
Breeders Convention.
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