The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-21

! raw bone meal. the droppngs have
/ been regularly scattered and the now
! ing machines occasionally run over TO
! clip off the rank spots that the cat
/ tie avoid and 10 keep down any growth
! or weeds. With an annual top dress
/ ing and keeping the pasture clean
! there will be no running out, but rath-
/ er an increase in the capacity of the
] sod Try this We have also found
il a good plan to scatter in late sum-
mer and fall seed of crimson clover
| on a pasture. In the shade of the
grass it will terminate and grow and
| add a great deal to the spring pas
! turage, while the power of the plant
| to get nitrogen from the air will help
the rest of the grass. Try this, too.
/ The Proper Feeding of Hogs.
The American Swineherd says: In
feeding swine grain of common
sense can be used to advantage at all
times. Don't get ratified because of the
multiplicity of new feeds and new COM
| binations that are continually placed
| before you.
! The first thing is to take into consid-
GRAFTON the object that is to be obtain
ed. If you are growing pigs for the
! pork market you can push them with
! strong feeds continually. providing you
| keep them in good condition with
| sharp appetities and active digestive
| organs to take care of the feed that
| is given them.
| 1t is not always a question of the
richness of the feed, but its cost must
be reckoned with at the same time.
Hog raising for pork purposes is car
ried on for the profits that it brings,
he
| pounds of gain or growth the more
profit you will have in pork raising
| Usually rapid growth is the cheapest
production. The rapid growth always
| is accompanied with a grain ration or
! with something that furnishes plenty
| Of protein nutriment. This ration is
| usually a grain that you can produce
upon your own farm, that must be
accompanied with as much grass as
| you can get them to eat. Home pro-
| duced feed is, generally speaking, the
| cheapest feed for the feeder.
! A portion of the feed, no doubt, can
| be used to advantage and benefit 4 the
concentrated feeds that ale offered as
| by-products from the packing houses
| or glucose factories. But one must
depend upon cheaper feeds, and this
is where his own productions, on which
all freight charges are eliminated, and
especially must ne rely IuI Cuedp-
ness upon his succulent pastures.
There are a number of so-called
stock foods, which is misnomer, as
they are not intended TO supplant the
place of grain or other feeds, but mere
ly as a conditioner or a tonic to keep
the system in the best possible shape
for eagerly eating and properly digest
ing the foods that are given them
Every feeder has to watch his ami
mails. A variety of feed helps to keep
up the appetite, but a sudden change
should not be made.
1t does not do to overfeed, to crowd
too far; the hogs should never have
given them more than they VIII eat
up clean. 1t is better to go a little
bit unsatisfied than to have more than
satisfies them.
Feeding for breeders, and especially
feeding brood sows is one that is Of
tener overdone than any other.
A leading breeder of Duroc-Je~seys
who has been successful for many
years as a great feeder and breeder
producing large smooth hogs. and
whose culls have usually topped the
pork market in Chicago. fed his large
herd of brood sows last winter coarse
wheat shorts poured into a V-shaped
trough and let water soak 1t, and when
he had the feed that he was satisfied
would be eaten up clean poured into
the trough the hogs were gwen ac-
cess to it and did their own mix
ing. He, on account of poor corn
yield last year. from early frosts, fed
them no corn and was a little bit fear
full that his feeding was too plain,
but the results were the BEST that he
ever had. His hogs never did better
nor showed up better lot of pigs in
stronger condition than from the pres
ent feed.
The sows also had large range OF
pasture and were fed clover hay in ad-
dition.
This shows that a great many breed
ers who are anxious to give their pedi-
greed brood sows something extra,
were really doing them an injury. AMI
the reports of many failures of
brood sows having Indifferent filters
or diseased filters Wee invariably ac-
ccmpanied with statement that they
had fed them a variety of rich feeds
mixed together.
1t shows that like the plain bread
and milk diet for children is the b. st,
so plain feeding for brood sows Is the
wisest and more uniformly accompan-
led with success.