Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-03
MANAGING THE HOG.
TYPE OF ANIMAL BEST SUITED FOR
BREEDING PURPOSES.

Long, Loose Make Up Rather Better
Than the Dumpliag shape-Feed-
ing Brood Sows - Care of Young
Pigs-value of Pasture.
Discussing the hog problem in The
Breeders Gazette, A. j. Lovejoy of
Iowa says:
In the first place it is all important
that one should start with as good a
quality of breeding stock as his purse
will procure. The sows should be of
a long, loose make up rather than the
plump dumping type, for in this type
n will find a more prolific SOW and a
more motherly disposition. She should
be coupled with a boar that is q little
more compact in his make up and yet
no enough to be extremely different.
Both should be well proportional, wide
in chest, full in heart girth. good strong
back slightly full or arching a trife,
broad and full in the loin and with
good hams, legs short or medium, feet
strong, nose short, face wide, neck
short and well filed and jowl medium
to full. With about this type Of sows
and a boar of the same general type
n should be ready to begin the opera
ton of raising first class hogs for n
and all purposes.
To get the most out of them will de-
pend entirely On the breeder and feed
er. He must first have a liking for the
business or he will never succeed. As
to the feed problem the nearer one can
come to raising the greater part of the
feed on the farm the better. No man
Should undertake the growing of hogs
for profit without a good hog pasture,
as this is not only n of the most
healthy parts of their diet, but one of
the most economical. The breeding
soWs should have this pasture during
all of the season that grass can be had,
and when the winter comes something
should be furnished that will in a
measure take the place Of grass.
Among the better substitutes we have
found either sugar beets or sorghum
to be quite satisfactory. Hogs or
shoats will eat both with relish. These
feeds are only to be used in conjunc-
ton with grain as a general thing.
During the season that the sows are
carrying their young they should have
a slop composed of ground oats or
oats and corn equal parts ground fine
~. If the oat hulls are sifted out. so
much the better
wheat shorts or middlings mixed
with either or both of the above foods
viii make them all the better. All
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n IN very cold weather fed warm,
We have Dracticnd feeding warm feed
FOR many years and can see no reason
to change, especially for young pigs or
shoats. For hogs that are being fed
for the market this will not be neces-
sary, as the more corn one can get
them to eat the last so or 30 days the
better. Corn fed on the ear if fed on a
floor will be just as satisfactory as if
ground for fattening swine, but for
breeding sows and younger pigs it is
not as good.
First, a sow during the period of /
CESSATION should have a feed that will |
make muscle and bone for the pig that |
is to come. The same is necessary for |
the fall pig or late summer one that |
is being carried over. Sows fed IN |
the above ann will produce strong |
hearty litters and more at a birth than |
Ii fed wholly on a diet of corn. Corn, !
while producing fat more cheaply than |
any other feed, will not do for a brood
SOW. 1t will bring her to the time of |
narrowing in a feverish condition, and |
when the pigs arrive they will be small,
weakly and puny. The mother will be |
irritable and likely to devour the pigs |
at the first squeal.
but a few sows should be allowed to |
nest together when getting on toward
narrowing. n when close up to this |
period they should be separated to two
or three in a place-if but one in a
place, better still. If the owner has |
done as he should and knows when the |
different sOws are due to farrow he
should a day or two prior to this time |
put the SOW in a warm dry place by |
herself I'M feed her rather lightly, but
on the same feed that she has been
having. After the pigs are born the |
SOW should have nothing for "A hours |
except a drink of water. This she will
need surely. If the litter is large and |
strong, the feed can be ommenced on |
the second day by giving only a little |
slop and increasing gradually, until at |
the end Of the first week she can have |
about all she will eat up clean. Partic- |
uiar notice should be taken that the
feed is the same as she has been hav-
ing. as to change feed at this time will |
be very likely to produce scours in the |
youngsters. During the next three |
months feed the sows all they can eat
that is, Of a milk producing character.
Ii n has milk to mix with the ground |
feed or middlings, he will have an al |
most perfect feed.
AS the pigs grow and show signs of
wanting to eat a place should be pro-
vided where they may go by them
selves and drink a little milk or a rich |
slop, with a little shelled corr to crack.
Carried on in this way, together with |
the pasture, If in season, they will at |