The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-07-06
SOUTHERN :: FARM :: FOTES,
ros INTEREST TO SrocKAAH TRUCK Gs0HER
A Pig Hospital.

A Pig Hospital.
A correspondent of The Southern
Ruralist tell his methods with pigs as
follows:
With large herd of Berkshires 1t
is necessary to have hospital where
you can place those that get hurt or
need treatment for scours, whooping
cough. constipation and other ailments
that pigs are subject to just as are
members of the human family. The
hospital should have several wards so
that each trouble can be treated after
its kind, but in each ward there should
be low, fiat box kept supplied with
charcoal ashes. salt and 8 little lime,
for more pigs are troubled with indi-
gestion just as people, than with any
other trouble and the above preScrip-
ton is fine Alternative and does more
to strengthen and improve the digest
i've organs than anything have ever
tried. Pigs, like some people. Will
sometimes gorge their stom&chs and
thereby thwart digestion and be "off
their feed for weeks, hence it is very
important to feed pig only as much
as he will clean up at once. but he
should be fed four to six times day
according to the age and digestion.
Never. under any circumstances. feed
pigs under ten weeks of age sour milk,
nor should their dams have it. for it is
certain to bring on Srours. After they
are three months old there is nothing
better for them than milk with white
shorts. Bran is fine for COWS and ma
tured hogs, but not fit for pigs. An
old doctor. and mighty good one. who
had retired to his farm. and lived &d-
1acent TO me. told me thirty-five years
ago that lie had found out what gave
pigs the blind StaGgerS, set them crazy
and often killed them, and that it was
nothing more than jimpSon seed that
they would eat in tic fall of the year
after they had finished up the wheat
stubble and succulent bites of clover.
then why let the miserable weed go 10
seed? Pull it up by the roots when
the ground is moist. do this every sea-
son for two years and you are done
with it,
Pigs are sometimes farrowed with
but one opening in rear and that in
tended for the discharge of water but
strange to say that one opening acts
for the discharge of both liquid and
solid. and l have had such pigs to be
the finest and most thrifty of the litter,
but OF course they are only fit for the
pork barrel and should never be al
lowed - mate with the boar.
The first case l ever had of this I
shipped the pig. which was very
handsome cle, to doctor. and his
Close observance of such things soon
brought TO light the trouble which he
verr promptly and to which
/ responded at once with another pig.
and told him 10 eat the first one at
my expense. nave a case of this kind
now. from an imported SOW. By an
imported boar, II the fattening pen.
and he. she or it is the most voracious
''growingist' thing You ever saw. 1t
is common thing for one testicle
only to be visible. I had case lately |
where neitheS was visible and a decid- |
ed depression occurred where there |
should have been just the reverse. but |
when he was butchered they both were |
formed and fully two inches from |
thcir natural position. Sows are nearly |
always bred entirely too young. this
early breeding diminishes the size Of
the dam and also of her progeny. y
sow should never be bred under ten |
months of age. and it is much better
to, wait until she is twelve months old |
and well matured, then, and only then,
can you expect to get best results.
This talk about practically starving
a sow for one. two or three weeks
Just after farrowing is all wrong;
there is none Of them that would not
be improved, and their pigs too. By
moderate feeding Of shorts and bran
mixed with greasy water, commencing
eighteen or twenty-four hours after
A sow would become so
nervous and ravenous as to trample
to death and possibly eat her young
if starved as some recommended. VI
course you should commence with one
fourth feed first three days and then
gradually increase it for ten days,
after which time give her all she will
clean up four times a day. After just
two weeks, in cold weather. you can
let her have a moderate ration of corn
night and morning. About the third
week her pigs will begin to nibble at
this. write this from thirty-hve
years experience. 1 have told you
before in this paper how to get the
pigs 10 eat mush at about four weeks
oflage. '{it
Cholera or Swine Fever.