The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-03-21
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DIVERSIFIED FARMING
BY JAMES ARNOLD.
Concluded from last week)

Concluded from last week.
They will often come around ALRIGHT Six
is very good average number of pigs to
save from lot of young sOws but one NAV
expect to do little better with smaller
number of sows. Sows should be made as
tame and gentle as possible so that thew NAV
not be barking around during narrowing
time. For feeding. let her eat the cleanings,
if she wants to. This, 1 believe to be nat
ural instinct and beneficial Scald some
bran or shorts with a little fax seed in it, if
you have it: also skim milk is good, Make
this into slop, and feed her on this kind of
food for a few days till all danger of fever is
over, when the food can be richer, Keep
her well-hlled up with slop at first, but don't
disturb her more than necessary and she
will be more likely to raise her pigs. Some
times SOW will take a notion to eat her
pigs. good feed of salt fat pork is said to
be good to stop this but 1 think prevention
is better than cure After the first few DAYS
the sow should be fed quite literally, and
should get about all the grain she will eat
with good appetite, in addition to plenty of
slOp and plenty of cold water at least twice
day, for she has great drain on her AS
grain feed corn. etc, mixed with bran. A
few roots may also be fed with ADVANTAGE
such as mangels. beets, cooked potatoes, etc.
Hogs prefer beets and parsnips. Early cut
clover or millet hay will be eaten by sows
with benefit Dairy refuse also. is of great
value in hog raising. In feeding your dairy
refuse, don't let it get too sour. Some of the
food slightly acid appears to be beneficial.
AS soon as your little pigs begin to pick at
two, h yxyifh hos
outside of her pen and put in little skim
milk They will soon learn to drink and will
not be as hard on the SOW, for eight or ten
pigs require an immense amount of nour-
ishment. A sow should be in good condition
when she farrows in fact, nearly as fat as a
hog ready to butcher. After three or four
weeks in the pen your SOW must have some
exercise on warm, mild days. Therefore
she and her pigs should be out in the sun
shine as much as possible. A SOW cannot
bear to be on board floor more than a few
weeks for their legs give out under them
After about four weeks your sows, if your
pigs are pretty even, can run in yard to-
gether but they must be we'll fed, and the
pigs too. or the strong ones will steal from
| the others. When your sows and pigs have
| run out little while and have got used to
each other. and each litter finds it's mother
readily, pick nice day, get the little fellows
into the hog honse, shut out the old sows and
proceed to castrate all the males.
In weaving pigs it is best to shut up the
sows and give the pigs their liberty and in
about two weeks the sows can be turned out
again with the pigs. The sows should also
be put on shorter. drier feed, but the pigs
should have all the milk the dairy will afford
with plenty of ground feed composed OF
| corn or barley and oats and bran and a little
fax seed. This feed should be soaked Il
hours before feeding.