The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-21


told me last spring that he would ex-
pend one dollar per head in shorts for
his weaving pigs. He had lbs pigs.
He had constructed large trough or
vat, in which he made a slop of his
shorts with water and gave them all
they would eat, or more properly
drink of it daily. Last week he told
me that in making shipment of sew
eral car loads of hogs, all of which
were good straight ones Ito use a
shippers term) these slop-fed pigs
brought him cents per hundred
more than the rest and were the "top
hogs' in Kansas City on that day.
Did the shorts have anything to do
with it?
How many are there here who re-
member the hog of even 80 or 40 years
ago that fattened on the mast in the
woods of our eastern homes? No chol-
era was there but when we began to
pamper them in closely confined pens
on strictly corn diet we invited dis
ease and destruction.
A gentleman sometime since when
told to feed his seed potatoes to pigs
while they were so cheap replied
that there was nothing in them, it
would just be throwing them away.
Well they perhaps are not worth
much as fat producer but they are
certainly cheap as an appetizer at any
reasonable cost. In the summer sea-
son, we have the advantage of past
ure grass without which l question
whether hogs could be made to pay a
profit for any length of time. mean
the average feeder.
We find in western Kansas, in New
Mexico and parts of Wyoming, the
hog industryis extensively carried on
almost exclusively on alfalfa, with
enough wheat screenings and Jerusa
lem corn to make a balanced ration.
Thus we have Sufficient knowledge of
the industry, if we but apply that
knowledge properly, to make it a
success.
Aside from the proper feed for the
hog, it should have the care that a
healthy conscience dictates. Poor
shelter, filthy, nauseous pens and sur
roundings, cold, damp sleeping quar-
tiers. Compelling them to inhale con-
stantly deleterions gases will surely
| induce disease and death.
Do not infer from my talk that we
can insure our hogs against cholera
for if some will pay no attention to
diet and proper sanitary conditions,
disease will surely enter such herds
and when thus it becomes epidemic,
| it may be transmitted to the best reg
ulated herds, especially when such
herds are being pushed to their full
capac city or finished for the shambles.
Lastly, L have no faith in the many
drugs and nOstrums fOisted on the
market clai inning to cure the cholera
The L. 5. Bureau of animal industry
recommends formula to be used as q
preventive of the disease but does not
claim it is infaIlible or that it is just
the desired remedy. The bureau is
still working to attain better results
/ The formula is as follows: Wood
charcoal, sulphur, sulphate Of soda
and sulphate of autimOny OF each TO-
chloride of soda, bicsrbonate of soda
and hypOsulphite of soda of each 10;
mix and give a tablespoon full fOl
each 200 lbs weight of hogs once q
day. The cost OF the formula at OuI
local drug stores is about 80 cents, the
pound of wood charcoal being nearly
half the cost of the whole.
had hoped to look up some sta
/ tistics and other matter pertaining &c
| the hog industry, but as my paper is
already long l feel that it is well
! did not.
Let us try to reach higher stand.
ard of excellence without regard tC
necessary cost and the ultimate result
must be crowned with success.
J. L. TREDwAY.