The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-09-11
CARE OF SWINE.
Common Sense a Necessary Factor h
Raising Meat.

common Sense n Necessary Factor n
4 Raising Meat.
One OF the prime requisites in the
successful rearing of swine is common
sense. You are not situated as l am,
and my environments are not those of
any OF my readers. There will be diff
ferences in some particulars. There
are certain fundamental principles,
however, in the breeding of swine that
hold good the world over. In the
feeding, for instance, we would say
give plenty and give as great variety
as possible. Some one kind of feep
must, OF course, be the mainstay, and
this in the corn belt will always be,
and properly so, corn. This should. of
course, be supplemented with grass of
some kind, bran, oil meal, oats ground
and milk. If were asked to give the
three articles of food that are the best
adapted to the successful raising of
hogs in this section would unhesitat-
lngly name clover, corn and milk.
With these three it is possible to have
nice hogs. For the clover any green
food may be substituted, such as blue
grass, timothy, rye, oats, wheat, etc.,
but to do their best some sort of green
food is absolutely necessary. 1t will
hardly be possibly to find a good sub.
stitute for corn. 1t is hog food par ex-
cellence, and should in nearly all cases
form part of the hogs feeding. but
never all. A good substitute for milk
will be found in bran made into slop
| and little oil meal added. There are
other good articles of food not herein
mentioned, but those mentioned and
variously combined. to suit existing
circumstances, have been the ones
mostly used by me, and l think l met
with fairly good success. A litter far
| rowed in September were wintered on
corn, milk and bran, and were sold
when nearly seven months old, the
seven averaging 167 pounds. Out OF
this litter L reserved two for brood
sows. While these hogs had good win
ter quarters they did not have the best.
and think would have made better
showing with better care.
Where one is situated so he can have
bran or middlings and milk to feed to-
gether, / say have it by all means. 1
know it will pay. Not only is there
nutriment in bran, but combined with
milk and corn it seems to enable the
hog to get more nutriment out of it all.
A hog that would not thrive on such q
diet, especially if supplemented further
with grass run, would not be worthy
OF the name hog. Due regard must al
ways be given to sanitary conditions.
With the editors permission will an
swer question or two of CORE
spondent and close. The ration of
ground corn, ground oats, middlinps.
sweet milk and orchard grass is very
good, and l would keep it up. with the
exception that I would not grind the
corn. This sow is a grade Poland
China; she narrowed pigs April from
a half-and half Poland-China and
berkshire boar. Correspondent can
use the same boar or full-blooded
Poland-China. Intended to use the
thoroughbred, but asked my advice.
would say use the thoroughbred by all
means. do not advise cross of any
kind.-Cor. Agricultural Epitomist.
Roots for Winter
With the prospects OF an abundance
of corn and fodder. which farmers usu-
ally have in hand for winter feed, there
is danger that little attention will be
paid to the growing and taking care of
the turnips and the pumpkins and roots
for winter feed. These vegetables,
although they, by analysis, are found
to contain very small amount of
nourishment compared with the
grains. grasses and beans, are still q
very valuable feed for cattle and sheep
when they must depend principally
upon dry feed. Nothing is better to
help fatten sheep and lambs and to
produce superior quantity of mutton
than turnips or some roots allied to
them. They not only keep the sheep
healthy, but increase their appetite
for other food and make it possible for
a large quantity of fattening food to be |
fed with safety. Give your fattening
sheep and lambs turnips or ..rutta
baga," at least couple of times