The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-11-21
Notes of the Hog Lot.

A good warm bed anG no supper
is better than a good supper and a
cold, damp bed.
Save all of the odds and ends, of
the feed for the growing pigs.
The home Of the hog should be
kept clean, warm and comfortable,
the bedding changed frequently
and air-slaked lime thrown in with
the litter.
Feed regularly all of the time.
Manage in some way to feed a
variety of food; they need it for
their own good and for the success
of the man who owns them.
A squealing pig never gets fat.
If he eats enough to make two or
more pounds of gain a day he will
squeal off more than half.
Don't buy or breed squealing
pigs for they are worse than a
grumbling hired man.
1t will not prove profitable to
put in close pen or yard and feed
over 10 or IL weeks. After that
the gains are not as good.
September and October are the
best months to market the early
spring pigs and the early fall pigs
can best be sold in April or May,
thus avoiding the cheap market
that comes later.
Experience is a good teacher,
but study we'll what others have
learned and try and improve their
methods.
Many waste products from the
farm, dairy, kitchen and garden
can be utilized into pork that
would otherwise go to waste.
1t is mistake to carry pigs
through the winter and feed for
heavy weights the next fall unless
you are 80 situated that forage can
be made their chief ration during
a large portion of the long feeding
period.
Never use any male unless he is
pure bred. He will pay the cost
of good blood in few lItters.
Plan to have the sows in good
condition at farrowing time.
Breeding and feeding are not all.
Keep your eye on the markets and
plan to finish your pigs at time
when you will avoid a glutted
market.
Life is too short to attempt to
spend years in grading up herd
from the common scrubs when one
or two good sows will stock up
your farm in 80 short time.
We don't need any of the pretty
little chunky pigs. They are nice
to look at but they don't bring
home the money.
When pig stops growing and
only adds on fat he is surely add
ing no profit to his grower and it
is chance if he pays for the feed
that he consume.
Breed for utility every time.
Too many of our so-called profess
sional breeders have become cranky
upon some certain fancy points and |
lose sight of everything else in
their effort to stamp uniformity of |
marking in their herds, with the
result that their hogs soon lose the
essential points which go to make
up profitable hog for the farmer
and feeder.
Stand by your hogs as the faith
full pilot stands by his wheel, and
you will outride financial failures
and have profits in your favor.
The best hogs are found only
among the best breeds and it is
useless to look for them elsewhere.
Did you ever see butcher Sc
Letting a big-boned, coarse hog2
Not much. He selects hog with
a good, even body, with as neat
bones as possible and light offal as
can be had, and this he finds In
the mediums sized hogs.
The hog is a machine that con-
yerts a little of everything into
pork and as to how profitable that
machine is depends entirely upon
how it Is constructed and the skill
exercised in running it.
Aid to Banks But Not to
Farmers.