The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-07-07
o News for the Farmer o

WAFER IL suInclonC Tor SIX SOWS. BY
so feeding them there is no danger
of their roofing the through over on
the pigs. 1 always bed my pigs
with clean straw. When the pigs
are about ten weeks old 1 sort out
fifty of the best of them to keep and
sell the rest and generally realize
about 81 apiece for them. feed
and sell about fifty head of hogs
each year and pick out pigs as well
grown, broad and deep as can,
with quality and finish. These will
get fat easily and grow rapidly. 1
pick them out regardless Of sex, for
3 good barrow is more profitable
than poor sow. 1 feed these pigs
one ear Of corn each twice q day, or
one bushel Of wheat or rye, scatter
ed on the ground, at the same time
allowing them to run on clover un-
til corn will do to husk, when 1 start
in on the new corn. In December /
breed the sOws for another year.
From December on the pigs will
eat two and one-half bushels of corn
day, and will gam twenty pounds
each per month, which is worth
$l.2O. The feed is worth sixty cents,
80 you see 1 double my money in
this way. In cold weather L feed
some dry oats, which they seem to
relish.
This time of the wear they run in
the feed lots, around the barn and
sheds and in piece of woods near
by. They are big enough to run out
with the cattle and not get hurt.
They will weigh about 100 pounds
each, and L do not think the biggest
one will weigh twenty pounds more
than the smallest.
When the sOws wean their pigs 1
let them run on clover until the 18th
of July, and then start to feeding
them corn. L aim to get them on
full feed as soon as 1 can. and they
will gain eighty pounds per month.
= AOON Viu OOAh uhthA buo lbJ VI Oop-
TENDER, when have q field of corn
ripe, and 1 then turn them in on it.
By the time the corn is devoured it
will be the last of September, and I
have my corn cut and wheat sowed.
My hogs are also fat and will weigh
about $4,000 pounds, which makes n
good car load of big hogs. These
Will bring the highest price and
strike the best market of the year.
Every year hogs bring at least 81
per hundred more in September than
in November or December. This
means $3.50 to me. Take this and
the $3.50 get for the extra pigs 1
raise and l think it pays me for my
trouble.
This beats keeping eight year old
sows to raise two litters year. They
are worth dollar more in year
than they are today. / claim what
you feed these sows is thrown away,
as they never improve any, but de-
preciate in value. If you raise fifty
pigs in the spring that will weigh
200 pounds in November and fifty in
the fall that weigh 100 pounds in
May you are doing we'll, and you
will have to slop them all the time.
To do this you have two or three
kinds of hogs all the time, which
means more work and worry. Your
fall pigs are more liable to cholera
and other diseases than those known
as spring pigs" Your old sows
are more liable to become breachy
and ill-natured and may take to
killing poultry. When your better
half finds out your sows kill the
chickens that she has taken so
much pains with, there will be
trouble in the family and the hap
piness OF your fireside will, in a
measure, be destroyed.-John Null
cahy at Richmond, o., Institute.