The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-15
FATTINING SHOATS.
Make CHEAP PORK BY FEED
ING VEGETABLES.
Mix II with Heavy Milifced ana Aiio" IL 10
sour slightly Before Use Proper Care
of Grain STACKS General Farm Notes


The early fall is the very best time
TO tatteu the rs. The flies are not
SO ANNOYING. and the weather Is Just
cool enough to give the pigs a god
appetite. Small potatoes, pumpkins,
small cabbage, etc. boiled and mixed
with heavy millfeed and allowed TO
sour slightly. makes an excellent ana
cheap iced. Two larIe w~heclbarrow
loads of these vegetables, thrown into
a forty.gallon open kettle and just
covered with water and covered with
a wooden cover. III order to keep IN
the steam, will boil soft in two hours.
When boiled, add one hushel OF heavy
millfeed, costing SC. This will make
a thick mush, which the pigs are
very fond Of. a handful OF salt
should be added to it, and we'll
stirre in. This will feed twenty
shoats two DAYS, in connection with
soft corn. The way TO feed is as fol-
lows: 10 the feeding at regular
periods. Il "A. III, l., and u o'clock in
the evening. Each shoat should get
live ears g. soft CO n. After this Is
eaten up, the slop is to be given "a
bucket TO tive poured into Il long
slotted trough.
These sholts should have the run
of an acre of wo DIS pasture. with a
small stream Of water running
through it. This is of great advant-
age, as pigs re u re Il large quantity
OF water both to drink and to wallow
in. One quart of coal, il possible
the Cumberland coal, is allowed 10
five shoats per week: give this in two
feeds every third day. The animals
should have a long, low WOO zen roof.
ten feet wide and thirty-siX feet iong
to 90 under at night Or in stormy
weather. This root should he six
feet high in front, and a foot from
the ground in the rear. The roofing
boards should lap n another, lcing
put on hori ontally. They should
face the southwest, il possible, ana
have in the rear a trench two feet
wide and a little o cr n foot IN
depth, dug and packed SO as to draw
of the surface water. The roof &c.
quires sixteen hemlock boards sixteen
tcct long by Onc foot in width. All
the other timbcrS may be taken out
Of the woods. Two men can put up
the roof in Il little over one days
time. Pigs must he kept dry, cs-
pccially at night: they must have
exercise, plenty OF sunlight, and
also shade in the middle Of the day.
This is especially ieeded in hot
weather. The one great point to
follow in successful pig feeding. is to
fee on time Give good. wholesome
iced. enough of it, but no more. and
give a variety OF feed.
The editor Of the Baltimore Amer
ican says he once fed soinc damaged
wheat, and found the best way to
feed it was TO scatter it thinly over
the sod in the feed yard: the pigs
viii eat grass and wheat together.
The wheat will al be digcsted. If
fed in little piles, it is eaten SO
grccdily that much of It's value is
lost. 1t does not pay to boil the
wheat. but it does pay to boil the
vegetables, us they require but little
cooking, AID the heavy milifecd
being added. mixes a thick mush
which combines With the vegetable
matter and soon Sours. 1t is then in
condition to feed. Bran will not
answer. 1t is too light, and it will
not mix. >hoats so fed viii lie in
prime order for butcherlng bV the
middle of November. The meat
viii not be so tat, but just fat
CROUCH, and Of excellent flavor
juicy and sweet. Try this plan of
making healthy family pork.