Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-09-05
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REEDING

In my own practice | never kept my
breeding stock fat, for / believe it Is
impossible to raise strong and healthy
pigs from fat parents, says an Illinois
grower in New England Homestead.
My pigs are raised mostly from old
| sows and never from soWs less than
| u to 16 months old. After the pigs
! come l feed them very little, as scours
f, is one of my worst troubles. / have
found no way to prevent this except
by limiting the feed for these sows for
a month or so after narrowing. OF
| course / feed my pigs in addition to
what they get from the dams, but do
this very carefully. / plan to change
feed every few days, and right here
allow me to say that 20 years ago
learned never to feed young pigs any
thing that don't feed their dams.
l feed my hogs what L can raise on
| my farm, taking care to produce all
the variety possible. Corn, if rightly
| fed and supplemented with other
grains not of a fattening nature, is one
! of the best feeds / know of. l like
good wheat shorts for feeding with
corn when not too costly. 1 have fed
a great deal of this. For the last two
years shorts have been very high and
hard to get, so l have been feeding
whole oats. l like oats nearly as well
as shorts, and they are much easier
fed. used to raise a large number
of pumpkins, but of late years have
| been unable to do this on account Of
the bugs, which destroyed the vines.
l keep my hogs on pasture as much as
possible and have never been able to
make pigs do their best without clover.
1 supply plenty of pure well water.
salt the hogs regularly, giving all the
ashes l have, and in addition burn and
char the cobs that accumulate from
feeding corn. This cob charcoal is
readily eaten and is a great help in
keeping the animal in good condition.
l keep my hogs scattered as much as
can and try to have only few sleep
| together. | also see that their beds are
! dry and clean. quarantine every hog
| buy and try to keep men who gather
up dead hogs off my place. l have
never fed drugs or so called cholera
| preventives and have raised hogs %
years without having disease in my
| herd.
| Summer Pig Feeding.
To get the most out of the pig he
should have as careful attention dur
| ing the cropping season as at any 9th
er time, says J. NJ. Jamison in Ma
| tional Stockman. OF course we grow
| the pig to consume the crops, especial
| ly the corn, and ordinarily the corn
| should go to him as soon as possible
after being grown. But it does not
follow that it should be fed in a waste
full way. The question may take this
shape, whether the greatest profit lies
in keeping enough hogs to feed the
corn crop out during the winter months
or distributing the hog crop to make
it continuous during the year and prac
ticing summer feeding on an equality
with winter feeding.
Without a doubt there is too much
heavy winter feeding Of hogs too
large. For this reason summer feed
ing of the spring pigs is not pushed as
it should be, and consequently they
are fed into the winter months and
have bodies too large that require feed
to meet natural waste. If summer
feeding is rushed, spring pigs can be
ready for market before cold weather
commences to consume corn at a seri-
GUS rate.
The Farmers Hog.
| The farmers hog should be of me-
dunn length, deep body, broad back,
straight sides and short legs, also to
stand well up on feet, said J. G. Wright
| before the Iowa Swine Breeders as
ISOLATION. He should have quiet dis
position and be inclined to be a little
lazy, SO after being fed he will lie
down and get the good of his corn. He
should also have neat head, we'll set
ON the body, so that when fat and
butchered there will be as little waste
as possible. In producing such hog
it is very necessary to pay particular
attention to the parent stock. In the
first place, the sows should be well bred
and a little lengthy, with good, well
| developed bodies, good feet and limbs
| uuu oHOuiu ilsO De SOUu SuChleIS.
The boar should be good, thorough
bred, well developed, compact animal
Of only medium length and of great
vitality and a good feeder, with good
medium bone, stand well on his toes,
but not of the long bodied kind. The
farmer wants hog that will mature
early, say at 6, 8 or 10 months, and
average In weight from 200 to $50
| pounds.
A Word For the Berkshire.
| The Berkshire is to the swine field
as the brave old oak to the forest. He
has withstood the tempests of fads and
fashions for over 100 years and is still
| the most lasting and enduring, said w.
D. McTavish at the Iowa Swine Breed
| ers' association. He has had no booms
or soaring prices, but has gone steadily
on in the even tenor of his way to that
practical improvement that makes him
| today the best all round hog for all eli
mates and all purposes on earth.
| Feet of the Flock.
The sleeps feet should receive care
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