The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-01-04

IInseed meals. The males were cas-
erated while Oh dams. The pigs were
fed as htters Of eight and seven until
November 10, when four lots were
made weights. The ground feed was
mixed with the milk. A condition
powder or cholera preventive was kept
before them, made Of q mixture of
peck hardwood ashes, peck charcoal,
1 pint fine salt, pounds copperas, !
pound black antimony and pound
sulphur -four.
Pen No. paid 90 cents per 100
pounds for skim milk during nine peri
DDS covering ninety four days. The
pigs were about 81 months old when
this feeding began.
Pen No. 2 fed the same 'as to mid
dlings, but which consumed 26 z per
cent more skim milk than did pen No.
1, paid 90 Os cents per 100 pounds for
what was consumed during the same
time. and under exactly like conditions
as to housing.
Pen No. 3, consisting Of three pigs
fed on middlings and butter milk, the
same weights of middIiUgs and butter
milk being fed as were fed pen No. 1 of
middlings and skim milk, paid 10 81
cents per 100 pounds of butter milk
fed during the nine periods covering
ninety four daYs 8. During seven peri
DDS covering seventy four days the but
termilk was worth 80 cents per 100
pounds, but when carried forward to
191 days was worth only ID cents per
100 pounds.
Pen No 4, consisting of three pigs
fed same as pen No 8 except an excess
Of 30 O7 per cent. of butter milk over
what pen No. 8 consumed, paid 90 2
cents per 100 pounds for the butter
milk consumed during seven periods
covering seventy four days. The but
ter milk was dropped for this pen of
pigs at the end Of the seventh period.
A record was kept through two later
periods, the eighth and ninth, after
which it was resumed again for three
periods Of seven, ten and ten days, re
speCtively. During the two periods of
ten days each without butter milk, but
getting practically all the wheat mid
dlings they could eat, the three pigs
gained only four and twelve and half
pounds for the three. Water was sup,
piled in abundance. When butter milk
was fed again the gains we're thirty
three and half pounds in seven days,
forty one pounds in ten days and ten
pounds In ten days. On the whole
feeding this pen of pigs paid Is cents
per 100 pounds for the butter milk fed
them as the calculations were made.
There was a very great interference
with growth by internal parasites.
During those periods when the pigs
made thrifty advance in growth there
is no reason to complain of the price of
milk, but whenever the parasites
seemed to get a strong hold little or
nothing was received for the milk, and
the gain was not enough in some cases
to pay for the other food. This shows
swine breeders danger to be guarded
against. Pigs should bs cIeansed of
the parasites aud the yards changed
often, and long enough to have the old
places purified and the vermin exter
minated.
According to the ststistician of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, there were in January, 1897, @,
654 600 farm animals in North Carolina
II by we'll balanced, careful aad eco
nomical feeding an average Of cent a
day can be saved on each animal il
gives the State q net gain in wealth of
more than SIC, ,OOO. 600 year, all of
which the farmers may reap if they
will.
The third portion of the bulletin con
tains the record of milk and butter pro
duckion of the experiment station herd
during 1895 and 1896. There were diff
culties to meet such as might be met
by any dairymsn. This OF itself may
prove a source of encouragement to one
whose experiences may have been sim
liar. The interest for one who cannot
make a sufficient outlay for the pur-
chase of the more improved breeds of
stock may be increased upon learning
that the herd was composed Of common
COWS.
OF the fourteen COWS in the station
herd it was found that nine gave q
profit ranging from So O5 to $23,2O, and
averaging SO 90 each. The other five
each gave loss ranging from 81 cents
to $40 80, and averaging $6.46.
/ OF course these five COWS that failed
l AL.iu Lnnrd rhni1ld have hnnn