The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-05-24
VOL. xxx.

tanned more lean meat The cnes
corn-ted bad but little activity and
were mo~e easily run down and ex-
h4usted by exercise than those fed
on food cf nerve production. The
experience in the hog States has been
that these that were fattened on blue
grass, clover, &c, and had corn only
as '.fll in" were hardier and more
exempt from cholera and all diseases.
and when attacked had far more
cften the "power to over come the
disease and hold on TO life. All
efforts so far at an entire grain fed
hog have rot been by large per
cent. as successful as one raised On
mixed feeds and the advantage has
been to those whose mixture was
largely vegetable in kind. It is
much better to grind up corn and
cob for him than corn alone, and corn
singly is slow fattener after a few
days fee ding, but is fed with good
results when given with other feeds.
Turned into pindar patch, the hog
will eat largely of the vine. Turned
into a mutton corn field and he will
loon eat heartily Of ccb and stalk.
He knows best bis needs and he is 8
wise owner who seeks earnestly to
know and look for the poor hogs de-
sire. That is a good guide and by
following it man saves money, for
wasted corn is money lost, and pork
saved is money made on the farm.
If any cne doubts the supreme
dlctation Of nature let him throw out
egg shells to the chickens and cb-
serve which are anxious for them.
He will quickly discover which are
his laying hens and which are not.
Those hens that are fruitful and that
are engaged in giving to their master
a return in eggs for care aud atten-
tion are the anxious ones for the
shells. The growing fowls and the
lazy hers and those proud gentle
men of the yard,' care but little
about them, and of.entimes will not
even eat them, and there is no reason
they should. We often dog, tease
and tantalize poor hog for catching
chickens when it is almost always the
masters fault. It is an outcry of
the same for something the hog has
Lot in it's system. II is generally
the crime of brood sows to catch all
this abuse, and she has been worn
down aud exhausted from bringing
and raising her owners other hogs in
his pens
Little chickens are too small to
satisfy this need and flesh Of some
kind must meet the demand or she
will pine and pine for weeks for its
assistance. I have found that in
killing sheep, to put her to le'se!f
and give her the head and cfal is
sufficient for most cases bat some
times it will have to be repeated
twice and your chicken eater has the
cure, but will more easily take it up
again when her needs require and
wisdom will soon ell the place with
a new supply Of flesh Of some kind.
For US to kill hogs and pour their
blood on the ground and throw the
cffsl away when our chickens and
ether hogs so sorely stand in need OF
these things is but throwing away
what it will take gold or silver to
replace. Little dropping chickens
can generally be raised in a short
time by few meals of animal food,
and this is just the reason that tur
kies always raise harder and larger
chickens than fowls; they get further
from hcme and catch more worms
and bugs and grass hoppers. Actual
experiment has shown that large hogs
are kept at great loss. A hog weigh
ing from 100 to 200 lbs. will get en-
pound heavier for every three to
three and a half pounds ct grain,
with one weighing from 400 to 700
lbs. will require five to eight pounds
grain to nske him a pound heavier
So that when fed On grain a pound
of bacon from large hogs is very
costly. We should never sell g
bnshel of grain from our farms. Oul
farmers take forty to fifty cents fo'
corn. Ii be will take that bushel 0!
corn and feed to a hog, yearling Of
sheep which has access to some pas
ture privileges, be can safely Cum
on twenty-five pounds of meat G.
some kind which will bring him
round dollar, aud if be has properly
housed that animal at night the com
post is worth very nearly what hl
neigbbor gets for bis bushel of corl
Odd has his dollar besides for 6t ef