Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1893-12-21

swine Getting.
To give definite rules for feeding
from year to year is hardly possible,
Grains vary in feeding value, prices
vary, making the most profitable
grain of one year the most unprofit.
able of another. Weather must be
considered, the condition OF the ami
mails require different methods and
materials at different times, and all
these must be met and provided for
by the feeder and his knowledge, oh.
servation. experience; in short his
"hog sense, must be his guide, not
printed rules. Nor is success CON
fined to the mere art of feeding. no
matter how skillfully done.
Thoughtful and adequate provision
must be made in proper time and
season for the requisite feeding ma
terial.
AS part Of the subject of feeding,
am of course expected to say some
thing about cooking, grinding, soak
ing whole grain, wet or dry meal and
sweet and sour food. On most farms
where swine feeding is conducted
on a large scale there is seldom
sufficient milk On my place pigs
learn to eat with the sows, and find
that not cooked food but that
brought to a scalding heat and fed
while warm and sweet produces the
best results The milk of the eow
is warm and sweet, and | deem it
best to conform as much as possible
10 natural conditions in feeding arti-
fetal food. Sealding renders food
easier of digestion warmth stimu-
lates growth and helps sustain ami
NAL heat
The feeder should not only aim to
have sows that will successfully give
blrth to pigs but those OF good milk
ing strains. Our dairy friends may
object to this term being applied to
asow as in cows Plenty OF mothers
milk will give the pig the right
start during its sucking period
Separate troughs Tor sows and utters
are not provided at our place, but
shallow troughs Of sufficient length
for the whole family to dine at; this
is plan believe not generally
practiced, but pigs should cat with
out crowding. Quietness in feeding
conduces to thrift
No kind of food gives better salts
faction for sows and pigs than equal
/ parts by weight of shGSts, bran and
corn meal, adding one pound OF oil
meal daily for each SOW and litter.
the whole in connection with clover
pasture. The feed is mixed six to
twelve hours before feeding. so as
TO be fed before souring or fermen-
tation. 1t is well to observe, how
ever, that in wet seasons n percent
age of dry food is beneficial
For the first ninety days my herd
of pigs, averaging from eighty to
100, makes an average gain OF three
quarters of u pound day, fed only
twice day after the pigs are six
weeks old 1t may be said that by
my system OF feed ne the SOW will
get the lions share, but If she does
she gives it back in increased flow Of
milk. Besides, thinK that sows
nursed to Il shadow will not have the
strength and vigor essential to their
next narrowing time. Few sows will
suckle pigs more than ninety days
aud Meaning the pigs may safely
be left to the mother.
After weaving we soil the pigs in
their respective stys with green
peas for few days, then turn them
into the pea pasture day times and
furnish them all the fresh, clean
water they want The pea food is
likely to produce costivoness, but
foo1i,,rr c,viI1 ut uirht will porVeo 1