Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-04-20
AGRICULTURAL.
Salt Injurious if Given to Pigs
in Large Quantities.
REASON PIGS ARE SCARCE.
Farmers Honest Enough to Admit
That 1t is Largely Owing to
Careless Methods.

Some of the farmers that have no hogs
st present are honest enough to admit
that it is largely owing to their careless
methods. There are others who have
regarded hogs too troublesome to raise.
Still another class have no pigs simply
| because the necessary car and thought
we're not given them. The latter class
is large one, and its members are the
| heaviest losers, having mad the expense
OF maintaining brood sows and having
money invested. d, ring the breeding
season losses come hom careless mating,
inbreeding, use OF poorly bred boars, etc.
In the narrowing season the lack OF at
tention and poorly arranged pens result
in many pigs being overlain. Pigs die
when small from the effects OF poor food
given them and their dams and from
poor shelter, LACK OF clean bedding, from
drinking unwholesome water and from
having little sunshine and exercise. Tie
pigs which lived through the first month
were given corn and water with their
dam instead OF food suited TO the build
ing OF bone and muscle in the pigs and
To the production of milk by the SOW.
If they had been given shorts, rye meal,
oat meal and other bone and muscle
forming food with slops, very different
resulIs might have been obtained. Such
troubles as colds, scours, costiveness, ETC.,
are usually the direct results OF careless
feeding or OF exposure. In recent years
many farmers have neglected their hogs
that more attention might be given to
grain-raising. There are not enough
hogs in the country to supply the worlds
demand, and will not be during the next
eighteen months. If the price OF corn
remains below 60 cents per bushel, it
will pay to hold hogs during the coming
year until they reach 300 pounds weight,
provided one-fourth of this growth is
made from clover or other grasses.
SALT FOR PIGS.
A veterinary correspondent writes to
the Mark Lane Express: | am often
asked about giving salt to pigs. Person
ally should not like to allow them q
free supply, which is what putting a
lump in the trough means, and especial
ly to in-pigs or sucking sows or very
young animals. Salt is decidedly iniu-
rious ii given to pigs in large quantities,
and leads to condition that is described
as poisoning. A little will do no
harm perhaps to large pigs; but, whether
it is prejudice or because experience has
demonstrated that it is bad for the ami
mails, salt is never placed in the piggery.
The cases where | have seen do mischief
is where brine from the pickle tub has
been mixed with the wash-butchcrs'
waste and that from hotels commonly
containing far too much. The same
thing applies TO soda, which often gets
into the wash when dishwater is emptied
into the tub. l strongly advise against
the use of salt for sucking sows-any
one may bid good-by to the Youngsters
II they get any quantity. Even the liu-
uor in which salt meat has been boiled
has been known to upset them. A far
greater essential for pigs than salt is
small coal or other grit. 1t is useful also
where pigs do not get the liberty of a
run to cut sods of turf, with plenty OF
soil adhering, and throw to them in the
pens.
FARMERS SHOULD BE PROGRESSIVE.
Whenever body of farmers engaged
in any branch OF agriculture get together
and talk over matters one would think
theirs the only branch of farming that
was worth carrying on. This is as it
should be, as one will always succeed
best in that which he believes to be the
best. 1t is not as it should be, for when
one thinks too much that his is the only
thing worth doing he is apt to be narrow
in his views and selfish in his regard for
the rights OF others. We want broad
minded, whole-souled farmers-farmers
who love their branch of husbandrv and
are willing to help their brother farmers
in other lines of farming-men who
make the most of their own work, but
accord to Others the same right. One
way to accomplish this is to attend in
stitutes and other meetings where men
engaged in the various branches of farm
ing are gathered together and the large
ness and Importance of each is dwelt
upon.
FARM FERTILIZATION.
Many tons of commercial fertilizers
are bought and used by farmers that cam
not afford TO use it. Until farmer saves
and uses all the fertilizers available on
the farm, he cannot afford to purchase
fertilizers with his hard-earned dollars
at S25 to $40 a ton. 1t will pay to dig
out the soil under the stables in many
instances and spread it on the land, as
1t contains great deal of ammonia and
other elements of fertility. Use the ma
nure from the henhouse on hills of corn
and potatoes or in the garden, and IL
will give excellent results. II farmer
Will keep his eyes open, he will discover
fertilizing material about his farm going
to waste in sufficient quantities TO grow
quite a field Of corn. Some wav ought
to be devised for saving all the liouids
about the stable, as it is worth nearly II
not quite as much as the solids.
NOTES.
Get up the summers supply Of wood
before you are rushed with the spring
work. F''"s
Where is your plow2 What condition
Is 1t in? Do not wait to find ont tiiI
ready to use unless you know Just how
How long shall we milk our cows7
There is no rule as regards age: il ali |
upon how long the cow will nav |
profit on her cost OF keep.
Feed contains just so much milk: 70
set this milk we must use the feed in
'uch way that it will be readily eaten |
md diges,ed; then, II the cows eatinc
ne feed are of the right kind, we will 7.
ret all of the milk. "''
An abundant supply Of pure water on
he farm is essential both for health and
'roht' If you have not such. IL might
'ay TO invest some OF your surplus earn.