Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04

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house. Curry and brush him often.
This will operate for his good in two
ways: 1t keeps his skin lively and
healthy and makes the hair bright II
thrifty. Secondly, 1t keeps him gentle,
lowed to root the ground. L. affords
him the best OF exercise because it
brings into active play every muscle
of his body and especially Of the neck,
back and legs, inc at the same time
affords him amusement and an occu-
patton. Have the lot surrounded by q
good, strong, high fence so as to pre-
vent his getting out; should he once
succeed in that it will cause him TO
repeat it and to become troublesome.
His sleeping apartments 81 ould be
placed in the lot or open into 1t, and
be made warm n comfortable. His
feed should be muscle rather than
fat forming material, and there is no
better food for the boar pig thar milk,
ground oats and corn or short with a
small amount Of oil meal. After he
has arrived at maturity, oats and
shorts in moderate quantities are the
best and cheapest food. Continue to
curry and brush him, inc to leep him
gentle and kind. 1t is my opir ion that
a boar kept in such a lot, anil fed a
small quantity of grain to give bone
and muscle, would be worth a great
deal more and give better ret 1rns for
the money invested in him t1an n
treated in the ordinary way.
In breeding, never take the SOW to
the boar, but have a breeding pen
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the SOW into. Have your boar broke
to drive nicely and bring the boar to
the SOW. When the SOW Is bred take
the boar back to his lot and leave the
SOW in the breeding pen till out of
heat or taken to some other quiet
place, If the pen is needed for another
SOW. I would advise the use Of a
breeding crate, and have the boar
broke to the use of it while young.
A young vigorous boar should not be
allowed to serve a SOW more than
once, and he should not be used on
more than M SOW a day.
Let me repeat: The young boar
should be we'll fed and kept growing
all the time, and If he is, he will get
strong, healthy pigs.
Notes.
The ideal method Of keeping seed po-
tatoes Is in cold storage. Potatoes
thus kept at the Ohio station have
come out sound and fresh, with no In
dication of sprouting and the vitality
unimpaired, even SO late as the LIST OF
June. 1t is important, however, that
the temperature Of the cold storage
room should not fall below 35 degrees.
nor should 1t rise much above 40 de-
grees. When cold storage is not avail
able, sprouting may be in some meas
ure prevented by shoveling the potat-
oes over frequently.
It does not pay to winter young stuff
that must 20 thru so crowded and
short of feed that they will not grow
a pound all winter. If they cannot
be kept thrifty, and growing a little
at least, 1t is by far better to dispose
Of them, even at what seems a low
price.
Sows that do not rear eight pigs on
an average should not be retained in
the herd. We know That when we
place production SO high that we are
considerably beyond the average OF
results obtained, nevertheless 1t
should be quite possible with any
breed of swine to reach such a stand
ard. We do not imagine that it can
be done at once. 1t will require time,
more with some breeds than others
before such end end can be reached.
Every breeder of swine. however,
should put forth the effort to reach
the standard mentioned o should
the effort cease until the object is at
tanned.
A hog without legs to stand upon
is not Of the profitable kind. Yet
there are nan that are not able to
navigate after they begin to lay on
flesh and get heavy on account OF
weak pasterns. Look well to this
point in buying breeders, or In culling
over the sows for use next year. It
is a point that has been sadly neg
lected by many that should have
known better, but happily there is a
change apparent among breeders. Or
late more attention is being paid to
underpining than has been the case
in the past.
The Wisconsin station declares tina:
100 pounds Of sweet whey is worth z
cents as a promoter of flesh and health
in calves. while sour whey is worth
nothing at all.
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