Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-02-27
Facts for Our Farmers.
How to Have Good Plas.

j are the requisites 10 OUSerNe III one
wishes to become a successful hog
raiser, and in order to keep these in
mind without fail he must have a
liking for the business. Neither
/ will it do in starting out to think that
any kind of SOW is good enough to be
gin with. What the farmer wants to
day is not the razorback or back
| woods hog. but an animal that will
produce the greatest number of
pounds of the best pork at the least
cost a pound He should therefore
select his sows with care, and choose
only such as are best suited to his
wants. He should certainly see
that they are in good, strong, healthy
condition at breeding time-not too
fat, but, on the other hand, not too
| thin in flesh. since TO starve brood
sows means, positively, starvation to
ones pocketbook.
The male, of course. should be pure
bred, and it is better to have the sows
bred so as to farrow in March and
April for spring filters. and in Septem-
Der and October for fall litetrs. March
! filters are preferable for the spring
| ones, but in order to have them a sue
cess the narrowing pens must be good
and warm. With early spring filters
one can grow and sell his pigs before
the poultry market has full sway,
and it also enables him to have his
sows farrow earlier in the fall, which,
in turn, gives the pigs chance to
! get a good start before winter sets in,
During the period of CESSATION with
sows they should be fed, not corn
exclusively, but some bone and muscle
forming food. They should have
plenty of range, too that they may
( take proper amount of exercise. Pc
tatoes, boiled and mashed, mixed with
ground oats and corn, and small por-
| ton of bran added, make a good feed
| for brood sows during this period.
| AS potatoes are too high priced to be
fed very much to hogs this winter,
however, one may substitute, If he has
them, clover heads that have been
rubbed off in the feeding of the barn
stock. They should be gathered up,
and, having been boiled with oats, a
small portion of bran added to them
If little whole corn is fed, this con.
stitutes a good ration, indeed.
1t is desirable to have the sows at
narrowing time not helplessly porky
fat, but broad. strong, active and
muscular About week before the
little ones are to appear place the SOW
that is to farrow by herself, and pro
vide everything for her comfort and
the welfare of her expected offspring
After narrowing feed the SOW lightly
at first with a slop of dishwater and 9
handful or two of bran added, warming
it If the weather is cold. Increase
and enrich the feed gradually, and
when the little porkers are seven OIL
eight days old add some bran shorts
and middlings; sweet milk, If it is
obtainable, should also be fed, and
with it, sparingly, some oats and corn.
When the pigs are two weeks old
the sow may be put on full feed, pro-
vided the former are watched care
fully to see that they take sufficient
exercise. At about three weeks old
they will begin to eat, and should the
sow knock them out of the trough, as
she may, the only way to do is to place
a trough for them where they will be
out of her reach. Sweet milk should
be given them, if possible, while, after
little, brown shorts, ground oats and
corn may be mixed in.
After they are about five weeks old
nearly all danger in this line will be
passed, and better feeding in this line
can take place. When they are from
seven to eight weeks old they should
be weaned by taking the SOW away;
they will not fret much at this age
and by careful feeding one can soon
have them again growing nicely
Frederick o. Sibley, Milford, N. Y.
Prospects for Dairy Farming.
Taking the country in general, the
field of dairy farming never held forth
better promises than it does at pres
ent. During the last year the price
of butter and cheese has been uniform
ly high, especially that Of cheese. And
there is no reason for believing that
the active condition of the market Is
not to continue. In fact, we have
reason for anticipating better prices
for butter and cheese the coming
year than we have had the last.
In the Department Of Agriculture AT
Washington vigorous efforts have
been made in catering to foreign trade
for butter. The efforts of the depart
ment have been quite successful. With
a larger expectation of butter we are
assured of better prices at home.
The impending doom of the colored
oleomargarine interests also gives
great hope to the dairyman. The
victory of the dairymen of this coun.
try over the manufacturers of col
ored oleo is simply question of time
1t seems, however, that this victory
can be gained by other than legal
measures, though perhaps very much
more slowly. The decadence of the
oleo interests is assured by improving
our genuine butter. What we want
is more and better creamery butter
and less poor dairy butter.-John
Mchels, in Michigan Farmer.