Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-08-07
OUR FARMER
HOGS FOR PROFITABLE FEtDlNd'

Gradually for many years the farm
ers have been cutting down the welgn'
of the hogs they grow and fetten iot
market. More go to market now at
about 200 pounds than go above tna1
weight by 25 pounds. There are more
at 25 pounds lessi than % above ZOo
pounds. If farmers were asked why
they do this they would doubtless
assign other causes rather than Tue
TN one. On most farms where h0S0
are grown il is a continuous WorA'
succeeding filters following as faS. a.
possible. If two filters are produceu IL
a year. there is only about time TO get
| the first to 200 pounds weight oeloIo
thew are in the way of the young
things coming on, ard must be moVeu
out. The farmer that has had expo
rience with the cholera does not ike
too many on the farm at once. Inc
weight, 200 pounds, is one that sens
readily at home to the shippers anu
also at the market end of their lives,
and besides, they go at seasons tnaU
suit farm arrangements first rate. III
many farm operations farmers as
whole, without arguing out the rea-
son, fall into the best way OF oolns
things.
Experimental pig feeding has oen
onstrated the fact that 200 pounos 10
about the limit in weight for prom
able return in feed consumed, Wnen
, the pigs have been fed to do tn0ai
best from start to finish. More pronO
NAV be had for food consumed oy
: selling at IT'S pounds weight
: Recently We sold lot of twenty
2 four pure Berkshires at 2O4 pouno0
i weight. They were grown on 'n0
e farm and had been kept growing ITO"
ii the start. Toward the finish theS
we're weighed at intervals 10 KIM"
> something about what they were r0'
a turning for corn consumed
p, Thew were fed only what tne1
/; would eat up in short time ana o'
]; anxious for the next feed. IL Wa
Il not possible to tell just what returi
they made, because often a lev
a. shotes would get into their lou an'
Il eat with them. They were FED
p p q LOT morning and evening, ana d
" soon az done eating were driven GU
IS. into a blue grass and white Glove
&; nasture to Craze and get water W
.. der this treatment they made only
ld little over a pound day gain.
ld In the same pasture we had forty
&c two shotes, averaging 81 pounds: thu
ID were bought in two lots in low ties
TO after rough winter treatment. Tines
te were fed corn twice day, aooaO oht
80 half or less what they would eat, aft'
lir becc ming accustomed to It, A hgi
feed of about an ear and a half or w
~ ears at a feed at the start made the
~ indifferent as to whether they ate
u, mr. not. On the half feed Of gra
Al and the same pasture the larger no
ro- grazed in they made very nearly 0
ia, pound gain day each. For a I'll
ona we expect them to continue this 81
till thew get large, say 125 to
n.y. pounds average, When they sno'
, - mt on more each day. They
and soon go into rye field, where tn
.ern is a great abundance of clover, "
nth which they will also have l1gh0 II
of ear corn. AS the rye fails IN qu
g75c titv the corn ration will be increas
ush- The clover at no time will %
oa limited quantities. While these Il
9n1 hogs had age and were thin '"
40 a bought. we did not expect the"
oxen outdo the larger ones so much on
hes; amount of grain consumed.
hes; Sometimes we find feeoer
has pasture for heavyweight n
shel; Such a one will buy 200 pound
sl,' 20 and mt on clover for summer G
. o. feed with the result that he will al
oct nav for his care and trouble,
White the clover added to the corn TO
thern out. Whereas had he bought AZ
pound hogs he would have rece'
an excellent price for his corn
'ulu' clover, and at the finish have
uro,. happy and not disappointed.