The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-10-11
Sorghum and Hogs.

Sorghum and Hogs.
1t is strange how prone the huma
family are to error. Some people
minds are so warped that it is imposs
BILE for them to see things in their tru
light. Such people delight in the IN
natural and nonsensical, jump at con
illusions and become pestiferous dis
seminaters of foolish ideas, that one
started are hard to head off or destroy
These people believe in the moon, tn
weather signs in the almanac, the sign
of the Zodiac in consolidating animals
and that May goslings won't hatch
These reflections are the result of hav
ing seen in Texas Farm & Ranch, an
article from correspondent, stating
that sorghum would not only not fat
ten hogs, but would prevent those fed
upon it from ever becoming fat after
wards; that he had found this out by
repeated tests and experience. and that
number of his neighbors had not on
ly made the same discovery and had
like results. but had gone further, and
by dissecting the stomach of sorghum
fed hogs had found them coated on the
sides with substance the exact count
erpart of the outside of the sorghum
stalks How fortunate for this neigh
borhood and these savants (?) that the
fool-killer has not reached there yet.
If it were possible for any species of
food when once partaken of by man or
animal, to forever prevent them from
laying on any more fat, or lining their
stomach with an everlasting interior
wall, obliterating digestion, how very
dangerously all would be situated, and
how circnmspect they should be in
selecting what they eat. Now this is
all the sheerest nonsense, and calculat-
ed to do much harm by preventing !
oyercredulous people from utilizing
one OF the cheapest and best foods for
hogs. We have fed about twenty head
of hogs for the past two months on
sorghum exclusively. giving them all
they would eat, and they have fatten-
ed every day and are now in Gne con-
dition and still improving. They are
confined in lot shut off even from
pasturage, but have plenty of water. t
We have no fears OF not making them
big fat" when we commence feeding
them corn, although we shall continue
to feed them sorghum until frost, and ;
even afterwards as we have plenty of
it and shall cut, cure and feed dry, l
after we begin corn feeding. We think
the only trouble with hogs as regards S
any kind of food, is getting enough OF
it to keep them not only in thrifty con-
dition all the time, but to enable them
to make growth and store fat If you -,
have starved your hogs nearly to death
trying to raise them on Bermuda grass :.
and then give them only a spare al
towance of sorghum or any other food,
they will not only not fatten on such
allowance, but will never become fat ,
on any kind or quantity of food. Not
however because they have a sorghum
lining to their stomach, but because p,
after bog has once become dead ,
poor" the fat cells between the hide
and lean meat (muscles) where all the
tat is accumulated in fattening, have ,
from want of proper progressive de-
velopement, become SO atrophied
tshrunken) that no amount of food ,
will ever restore them to their normal
condition and allow the animal to be-
come extremely fat. They will look
plump, but will never fatteu like a {
hog kept all the time growing and dis {
tending there fat cells to their natural ,
and utmost capacity. Permit calf to
run with its mother from the first and
keep the udder drained of milk SO it {
viii not accumulate and distend the I
milk cells and you will never by any /;
kind of treatment have good milk =.
producer from such COW in her later
days. 1t is a great pity that man has Z
not got sense and manhood enough to
shoulder his own laziness, and want of =
and not be always trying TO I
lay it on nature who left to her own
processes never errs. Z