The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-10

CARING FOR THE BROOD SOW.
As like produces like" the breed
ing sows should always be selected
from large filters, from sows that
are good mixers and good mothers.
A SOW that is not good feeder will
produce only small filters, will be a
poor mixer and her pigs will grow
so slowly as to make their profit a
question. It is impossible to judge
accurately of the milking qualities in
gilt. but usually a chunky, easily
fattened, heavy boned and short-leg-
ged sow is not as good mixer as
is the less attractive-looking one with
longer body, longer legs and some.
what less rounded sides. Form
should not be wholly sacrificed to
the production of large filters and
abundant milk, but good milking cap
acity is essential to a good SOW. If
the pigs are not able to get all the
milk they need during the first six
weeks. they became stunted in way
from which they never fully recover,
and many pigs which die before they
learn to eat solid food die of starya-
ton. A SOW which is a good mixer
is usually a prolific and careful
mother
Some of the more noticeable de-
fects CT form in the breeding SOW
may be corrected by mating her with
boar which is unusually strong
where she is weak. If the SOW Is
long-headed, long necked and long
bodied, she may be mated with boar
having the opposite characteristics.
If the SOW has weak legs and her
dew claws touch the ground the boar
81 ould have unusually strong and
ST. afght legs. If the SOW is sway.
backed the boar should have his back
well arched On the other hand, a
boar which has weak points can otter
be used with success on SOW which
is unusually strong where the boar
is detective, though weakness in
the boar is not counter-balanced as
readily as one in the SOW, ON account
of his greater prepotency. A boar
and SOW having the same defects
should never be mated. Similar de-
fects are almost certain TO be great
ly exaggerated in the pigs.-The
Farmer.
FEEDING ACCEPTING TO SCIENCE
No horse requires more than one
full feed Of hay once in twenty-four
hours. A horse to, be in perfect health
Sho,Jld hovo tho cFop q nh o,nnf;od ,,F
the previous meal for two or three
hours before he is given another. If
such is not the case, digestion will
not take place in a perfect manner,
and disease will likely result There
is remarkable sympathy between
The stomach and the lungs because
OF the fact that the same nerve trunk
supplies nerve force to both organs.
When the stomach is deranged from
improper feelings the lungs are liable
to become sympathetically affected,
and heaves often result.
Care should also be- taken that
horse should be fed no dusty or mus.
ty hay This dust is as light as ali.
and the horse in breathing draws ii
right into the lung tissue with CIV.
cry breath, and this substance, be-
ing an irritamt, is very prone to de.
velcp heaves. If no better hay can
be obtained the dust should be laid
by sprfnkling with water, when the
horse will not breathe =. but it will
be swallowed with the feed and prob
ably dc him no harm. But when at
all possible only bright, clean hay,
free from dust. should be fed to hors-
es.
Again, no horse is in tit condition,
for active exercise with the stomach
dfstended with hay, because the stom-
ach, situated as it, is right behind the.
lung space, If full bulges forward into
the chest to such an extent that the
lungs have not room to properly ex
pand and cannot perform their func.-
,tions properly, and anything that m
terferes with the function of the
lungs predisposes to heaves.-H.. G.
Reed. in the Weekly Witness.