Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-11-16
MONEY IN HOGS.
The Profit Lies In Getting to Mar
ket Promptly and often.
Methe of Feeding.

The profits of hog killing, writes
Charles Haines of Ohio, are in getting
to market promptly and often. No
breeder or feeder loses anything by
constantly keeping his hogs in a condi-
ton ready for market. Care, judg-
ment and skill pay proportionately as
well in raising porkers as thorough
breds, but remember that life is too
short to waste in feeding scrubs. The
lower the price of pork the more i'm
portant it is that the farmer have the
best machine to work up corn at a
profit. Pigs intended for pork should
be crowded as rapidly as possible to be
the most profitable The advantage
of growing improved stock does not
lie merely in its better adaptation to
the market wants and to the fact that
1t will respond more promptly and con-
tinuously to feed. The early age at
which it natures is one of the sources
of profit to its owner. Early maturity
is chiefly a question of feeding for
generations with a view of making
rapid and continuous growth, the early
maturing quality being transmitted as
it gradually increases by heredity.
Breeding at an early age also probably
has much to do with the creation Of
the quality. 1t is possible to push it
so far that the results will be incon-
sistent with full and healthy develop
ment, but If this be avoided early ma
turity is one of the most valuable attri-
butes of the improved animal
As to the feeds and manner of feed
ing, nearly every breeder has his own
way about them. | have never been
an advocate of cooked feeds for hogs,
young or old. Humanity is accustomed
to being fed in the main on cooked
food, and because it is more palatable
to man it has been assumed that it is
more palatable and even more digesti-
bic when fed to domestic animals. This
is by no means clear, however, and, in
fact, the results of numerous expert
ments are sll the other way with but
few exceptions. More than a dozen diff
ferent series of experiments have been
undertaken to determine what effect
cooking or steaming has upon the flesh
and fat making power of various feeds,
and In nearly every one of these the
result showed that a given amount of
feed would make a larger amount of
gain uncooked than cooked, with pos
sible exception in the case of potatoes,
In which the proportion of albuminoids
/ would say provide your hogs with
good, wholesome feed, changing the
feeds frequently. Do not feed corn
alone, but with it give Stops made from
ground feed. In the winter when the
weather is very cold feed literally of
corn at night and no Stops unless they
are fed warm, as the corn will help to
retain the animal heat the Stops hay
ing tendency to cool and chill the an
imal. In the morning, when they have
the day and warmth of the sun Gf
there be any sunshine) in which to ex-
ercise and retain the animal heat, /
would feed slops and less corn This
manner of feeding viii keep them cool.
They will worry less, thrive better and
give good results. Another thing, l
would rake up and burn to charred
condition all the corncobs, water the
charcoal thus obtained and sprinkle it
with salt and sulphur. This / consider
one of the best Gf not the BEST pre-
ventives of hog cholera and other dis
eases known among swine. In the win
ter provide your hogs with shelter and
warmth, in the summer with good
shade.