The Elbert County tribune., 1906-05-17
SWINE NOTES.

the parent will crop out in the on
spring.
While feeding the young growing
pigs literally, the SOW should be fed
all that she will eat of the food best
calculated to make her give large
quantities of milk
Young pigs should be taught to eat
before they are weaned. There should
be an arrangement whereby the little
pigs may be fed in trough by them
selves. This can be done by having
b, small opening into an annex to the
main pen.
While sucking pigs the brood SOW
should be well fed, in order to main
tain a liberal flow of milk Remember
that the young pigs are being fed
through the SOW, and if the mother
Is half starved the young litter will
not thrive.
One writer declares that some breed
ers lay the cause of cholera to the
feeding of green corn, when the blame
properly belongs to filthy premises,
dirty water, etc. This is q fact that
is hard to get around. When the
vigor of the herd has been debilitated
by filth, and green corn is fed to
overcome evil effects, the latter gets
the blame If serious losses follow.
With the germs of hog cholera scat
tered SO widely throughout tine coun-
try, farmers can't be too careful about
allowing their hogs to stray or of per
mitting indiscriminate patronage to
boars they may be keeping. Where
1t can be done, 1t is much safer not
to have the hog lots and pastures
fronting on the public highways
rowing stray hogs or droves being
driven or hauled along the road may
infect your stock before you are aware
of it. XIII all the buzzards and look
out for the run-about dogs. If there
is running water in your hog pasture
or lot, keep an eye" up stream or
cholera may float down onto you.
These precautions mean trouble and
expense-but after cholera has once
cleaned you entirely out of hogs. you
will greatly regret having neglected
. them.
1t is claimed by some authorities
that broom corn seed makes good
food for swine. Its value for such
the first place upon the degree of the
maturity of the seed at the time of
cutting, and in the second place on
the way in which the food is pre-
pared and fed. Broom corn seed from
brush cut short of maturity will cer-
tainly not make good food for swine
When cut at the proper stage and
finely ground and fed along with some
protein food. good results may be OBJ
tained from feeding 1t.
The small breeds of swine do not
seem to be growing in favor. In
some respects this is unfortunate.
While they do not attain the weights
of the middle or large breeds they
fill place in the economy of pork
production. They produce class of
light pork which natures at an early
age. There is considerable demand
for such pork by a certain class of
buyers. We are not of the number
who think that we get too many pure
breeds of swine.
OF all pests, the English sparrow
takes the cake" They drive off
every other bird which would build
In box or near by trees and bushes
We are favorable to the shotgun meth
cd of eradication, and will push this
war of determination vigorously for
we must protect our martins, bluebirds
and wrens. or they will be driven from
the country by these foreign nabobs.
You will note that the progressive,
up-to-date farmer makes his farm a
producer of finished articles, consumes
all that he has grown and turns off
the product finished in the way of
hogs, sheep. horses. cattle, fruits, etc.
Look well after the farm tools, and
especially the steel tools. They
should have coating of either axle
grease. or a mixture made of one part
rosin and three parts lard.
Much of our mfllet is seriously in
jured for feeding purposes by being
allowed to become too ripe before har-
vesting.
Don't keep that colt tied in the barn.
There is nothing more Strengthening
TOR growing colts than exercise.
garden. Work in plenty of manure.
and do this work in the fall
Only a few varieties should be
.-.utsd in a commercial orchard.