The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-09-11
eRAss.PED PIGS DOING WILL.

This spring ! purchased small lot
of disreputable looking pigs, with q
view of experimenting little. They
we're thin In flesh and we're covered
with mango that must have been
uncomfortable, and certainly very
unsightly. My first act after getting
them home was to go to work on that
mango. and found it by no means
an easy thing to get rid of. The per-
sistent use of kerosene, lard and sui
phur is having its effect, however,
and they will soon be cured entirely,
writes c. b. Barrett in Orange Judd
Farmer.
| had good opportunity of testing
the relative merits of corn chop
and shorts when used as part of
the slop, and | find that for starting
them to grow and keeping them at 1t
the shorts are far ahead of the ground
corn. These pigs were dissatisfied
when the wheat was removed and the
corn substituted. When began feed
ing them the pastures had not started,
and succulent food was inaccessible
The roots had given out, SO 1t threw
them on dry feed, with only wheat
and slop for change. This was
given freely, about all they would
clean up, several times a day, but
little gain in growth and condition
was noticeable until grass and alfalfa
made thair aPpoaranea. Then COM
menced steady and rapid improve
ment both In flesh and growth. Their
appetites increased and they returned
to their quarters from the pasture at
night full and ready to sleep quietly.
The quantity of grain fed was di-
minished gradually until the pasture
furnished an abundance of feed. Now
| feed grain but once day, and as
the time of feeding is late in the
evening, after they return from graz
ing, the quantity required is small.
A little sour milk is fed once in a
while-say two or three times week
and my pigs are fast growing into
porkers. do not like to attempt to
make something out of stunted pig
as rule, but in this instance the ex-
pertinent is terminating fayorably.
THE HOG LOT IN SUMMER
/. Notwithstanding the great import
ance which the great American hog is
in the economy of the Western farm
or, he is the worst treated animal on
the farm. That he is not afflicted
with more ailments than he is, con-
sidering the treatment he receives, is
surprising. 1t is in the hot days OF
midsummer when he is neglected the
most. There is no animal on the
farm that is more sensitive or suffers
more from the heat than the hog.
Any one who has driven fat hogs to
market on sultry day can soon see
how easily they are overcome by the
sun. Yet, with this fact in view,
nine farmers and breeders out of ten
will select the hottest, most exposed,
dry and shadeless place on the farm
to locate the hog lot. The fence is
horse high, bull strong and, Of
course, must be pig tight, and, conse-
uuently, but very little breeze can
reach the herd. Usually the pens are
crowded, especially if they contain
hogs that are being fattened, and by
being in close contact with each other
the animal heat increases that of the
sun, and their sufferings are SO great
that their appetite is impaired, and
they do not thrive as we'll as they
would if the conditions were differ
ent. In the summer months provi
sion should be made to furnish them
with shelter, shade and pure cold
water. If there is no place on the
farm where lot can be located
with shade trees in it, sheds can bt
erected at small expense, which will
not only shelter them from the direct
rays of the sun, but furnish them I
place of refuge from the storms.
1t is only the good sheep that pay
a profit and the poor ones are bur
den ON the balance of the flock, ant
often the keeping of these makes thu
farmers conclude that sheep do no
pay.