The age-herald., 1902-05-11
THE PIG PEN.


Don't use inferior stock for breeders. Have a separate pen for the Narrowing sow.
 The quiet, dccile sow is the quickest to lay on flesh.
 The early spring pig is thriftier than the one born later.
 Hogs ere great eaters and enjoy change of food occasionally. In feeding remember that pigs want muscle ard bone; old hogs want flesh.
 Always keep a supply Of charcoal wood astes and salt there the pigs can get at them
 For brood sovs q ration of one-thrd rye. same of cornmeGl, same Of wheat middlings, is good.
 The market demands pork with a fair | admixture Of leen meat. Corn exclusive ly won't give it.
 Ten pigs fattened at seven months old will pay greater Proportionate profit than twenty at year old
 The best guide in caring for animals is to ino zine ourselves in their place and think how we would like it.
 Do not let the brood SOW run with the shcats and other pigs, but give her quiet lot by hetsclf
 The Berkshire is rest excellent for crossing with the Poland Chinas, and many feeders claim the mixture to pure breeds or either breed
 Since ihe heavy hog has returned to favor with packers, BCrkshres are more popular than ever supplying at nine to ten months packing stock or shippers of good weight and quality. A ration consisting of wheat mi.:dlings skim milk bran, pumpkins, apples, elo- vcr hay and the ike should be given to the breeding stock
 AS soor as the little pigs will eat give | fr,r ..1.- part from the mother sow
 Do not expect the young rigs to thrive on corn on the cob bu mix them a good, | rich slop if you want them to grow
 Feeding corn without ary grass or roughncse is very expensive now Ac- | knowledging this fact it is wise to make every effort possible to give the young hogs and breeding anlmels the range of the pasture fields.
 1 Keep the SOW and pigs out in the or chard or on the clover. When they are brought to the pen give then. roomy airy Quai ters, with yard attached. | The lorg body and full hams of the 1 Berkshire, furnish a large per cent of the highest grade pork. The bacon from | the Berkshire IS much more in demand | th"n rom short chunky hogs It con- | taiDs a larger porti on of lean we'll mixed | with fat.
 | Since the Berkshire became so well known, there have been many candidates for popular favor. but with the excep- ton of the Poland-China no other breed has succeeded in attracting as much at tention Gs these wonderfully popular pork producers. and the American farmer nas good reason for retaining them
 "Thc best money I ever made out of pasture hogs" writes a valued corres- pondent tnd successful hog raiser. |" was from hogs in a nice clover pasture plenty of it, access to pure water, and salt and ashes waer they wanted it. and feeding just one pound of shell corn per day Ter hog. I sold them when they were D months old. They ran in the clo- yer pasture from the 1st of May until the middle of September. But the pas ture Lad begun to fai. little bit, and they were sold out of the pasture with cut any more feeding than one pound of corn. I made from actual weight more pounds Of pork from an acre of clover than any man can from an acre of corn. I have never been successful in making hogs do well with clover alone. do not recommend that l think we want some corn with it.