Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-02
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5 The Stockman's Column.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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To-Day the Courier inaugurates what
it hopes will prove to be feature oil
much interest to that portion of it's
readers who are interested in livel
stock.
This newspaper has compiled infor.
nation relative to the care of hogs,
cattle, sheep, etc, which ought to
make good reading. AS a means of
disseminating 1t and with view of
exchanging ideas of the farmers on
this subject the Courier will under
take to print experiences of stock rails
ers Tor the benefit of others. 1t has
been assured by competent persons
in Ottumwa that they will undertake
to answer such questions concerning
live stock as are associated with it's
preparation for market. These an
swers will be printed in this column
of the Courier, together with such 9th.
er information Suitable to the needs of
the Iowa breeder and grower of live
| stock.
riog Feeding Experiments.
| Hog feeding experiments everywhere
| have brought out the same conclus-.
ion-that the feeding of corn alone
/ does not give the most desirable re-
suits. Australian investigation show
| ed that while hogs fed on corn alone
! produced very soft, fat pork. hogs fed
with corn and judicious mixture of
other grains, or corn fed hogs on pas
ture, produced pork of very desira--
Bile quality Barley and rye are much
used in connection with corn for hog
feeding. Canadian experiments show
that the excessive use of corn lowers
| the price OF bacon on the British mar
kets. Throughout the dairy region
skim milk, which is rich in proteids,
the element which makes lean meat,
has been found to produce pork at a
low cost and of the very highest quail
ity when fed in connection with corn
ration.
Make use of the corn cobs. Burn
them to charcoal in a pit and feed
them to the pigs. Break the charred
cobs into small pieces and add wood
! ashes and common salt and you have
| one of the best regulators for your
hogs which can be invented. To eight
bushels of the charcoal add one and a
half bushels of wood ashes and eight
pounds of salt. Mix we'll and sprinkle
with pound of copperas dissolved in
a pail of hot water. Place in box
where the pigs can get free access to it
4 and you will be surprised at the appe--
tite they seem to have for it. 1t will
do them good, too.
According to the Farmer. we under
stand that not few of the farmers
who have pastured their hogs ON rape
during the last season have been trout
bled with skin disease which it is
claimed seriously retards the growth
of the swine, 1t seems to be natural
for those who have had this experience
with their swine to conclude that the
rape pasture was responsible. Have
any of our readers had similar ex-,
perience? Reply made through the
Courier would be interesting
to all readers. We are confident of the
opinion that there was something else
the matter.
i. Farmers who take their milk to the
condensing factory at Waverly
are finding says the Independent, OF
that city, that they are seriously in
convenienced by having no skim milk
to feed their calves and pigs. The pa
per comforts them by stating that the
|, price received per 100 pounds of milk
is enough greater than that paid by
the creameries to more than make up
the value of the skim milk
We have never yet seen price paid
by the condensaries nigh enough to
cover the combined butter and feed
value of the whole milk.
One great reason the condensaries
get as much milk es they do is that
the farmers are ignorant of the feeding
value of SKIN milk or the proper meth
DDS TO make it of value. The number
of men who pretend to be dairymen
who report the value of skim mill,
at 10 cents a hundred, is proof of the
truth of our statement There is nc
help for men who are ignorant Of the
value of what they produce and who
in addition, do not care to know any
; better.
That sort of farmer refuses
: to invest dollar for valuable know
ledge and contentedly loses ten dol
lars in the value of his product
There are lots of big dividends de-
clared by corporations every day on the
contented ignorance of farmers of that
; kind.-Hord's Dairman.
The pigs that grow are pigs tina.
pay.
If skim milk be fed to pigs that run
|, to grass, one hundred pounds will
make one-third more increase in
, weight than when fed to pigs not or
grass
7 If the pigs root out, dig trench 6
: foot deep beside the fence and tacl
. poultry net to the posts. Their sensi
s tive noses will avoid it.
A good trough for little pigs may
be made of long narrow and shallow
!. box of any kind. The first feed of we
bran will make it milk tight
Don't keep 'em in narrow. mast!
. pen.
Next to grass. nothing grows pigs 81
fast with skim milk as corn meal, says
the New York Experiment Station.
: The squealer isn't the best feeder
e Don't raise this type.