The Southern herald., 1898-04-08
FARMERAyD PLANTER.
THE HOG PEN.
heeP the Hogs Comfortable Ii You Desire
Good ResuItg.

Good Results.
The main thing is, make your hog
comfortable by giving him nice, clean
sleeping quarters under cover, SO it
will be dry. Give him straw and he
viii make his own bed / like dirt |
floors best, and fiji up the holes or un-
even places with clay, as there is not
50 much dust. Then You want plank
floor to one side TO feed on, 80 the
feed will not be trampled in the dirt.
You also want your feeding platform
little slanting. so the rain viii keep it
washed off. Keep the manure and
trash cleaned out and sprinkled with
ashes or Stacked lime. A friend of
mine told me last summer a good way
to rid the hogs of vermin, as well as
have the hogs cool. Take some plank
and make a box about the size
of a wagonbed, bury it about
half in the ground. Then fill
about two-thirds full of water,
On this pour five gallons Of coal oil,
with some other cheap oils. The oil
floats to the top, and the hog will take
bath and be well oiled when he comes
out, which will kill that great hog
pest, the louise.
Plenty Of clean water is very essen
tial to "a hog in fattening him in the
summer time, as well as plenty Of
shade.
The narrowing pens should be away
some distance from your other hogs, 50
the SOW may be as quiet and undis-
turbed as possible. The more SOW
with young pigs gets up, the more pigs
are trampled or oycrlaid. BE sure you
know about when your sow is due to
farrow, and put her by herself in a
pen with shed, that She can make
her bed, and be sure and provide her
with good bedding a few days before
time, Supply her with fresh bedding
and clean out all the old, and sprinkle
with ashes or slaked lime every few
days. Notice that the water doesn't
run into your pigs bed. If it does, and
they sleep in a wet place few days,
good-by piggie, for part Of them may
die, and if not some Of them may have
their tails to crack and come off. The
little fellows need plenty of exercise
and sunshine, as well as feed, to make
them grow.
like to have my lots and pens moved
every year when practicable, so as t.
enrich as much ground as possible
| will tell you how to make a conyen
lent, movable fence: Go to the mills an,
get oak lumber when you can; if not
pick out as much heart-pine as you car
find of lxi inch, and in as long lengths
as you can get; now make these int
panels of about three feet high by nail
ing pieces across ends and in middle
Set up your panel, drive post at eac!
end and wire to posts. Put on an
other panel, until you have the desire
size. For making hog fences wher
You have three or four barbcd wires
make your panels with three plank
and wire to posts. If you should wis
to use another lot or field, you ca
take this off and move in short time
BY using these movable panel fence
you use a great deal of pasture an
have it fresh for your stock, and !
this way you need not have so niue
fencing not in use. am great adv,
cate of the hog having plenty of rool
and fresh quarters. We would NJ
think Of trying to raise horses and ca
tie without pasture, but will conhr
the hogs to pen to raise him, whic
can be done successfully when there
plenty of milk and slops to feed.
Now, have jumped out of the i
into the pasture, as sometimes the hi
will do, when kept in the same pla
too long. have told you nothing ne'
but hope it will put you to thinltir
a how to keep the pen contcnted-C. y
e Thomas at the Texas Swine Breeder
o Association Meeting.