The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-02
Mir. Fulton Has Meat.


 respondents want to know II l have any meat for 1910, ana hasten to inform him that have, and also that it is better hog meat than any millionaire in New York City can buy. The manner in which I got this meat hts so we'll into this discussion of the hog law proposition that l Will take up a little space in telling about it. One of my friends, liv- ing near town, had razorback SOW last spring that, like all of her kind, was not satisfied With the feed and pasture her owner afforded, but made frequent and destructive excursions into a neighbours field, where the young corn grew tender and sweet. Que day she carried home heavy charge of No. 3 shot that she had not swallowed, and when she died she left litter of little half Pc land China pigs. Some time after the owner made me present of couple of the pigs, and a more stunted aud runty little pair ot porkers I have seldom seen. had no COW and the outlook to tn make anything out of the pigs was not very encouraging, for II you stunt pig when it is small, especially by depriving 1t ot It's natural nourishment, you can sel- dom make much of hog out of it. But 1 went to work on my "runts," and as a substitute for milk I fed them daily with abou, quart each of thickened gruel. 1 also connected their pen with 8 lot about 100 feet square, where they could get plenty of fresh tender grass and Japanese clover and also get plenty of exercise Ia about a month 1 changed tht gruel feed to corn chops, which either soaked or cooked until al most as soft as mush, but 1 kep them ou pasture for about thres months. 1 did not stop the greer feed, however, when 1 peunet them, for the hog is grass eater as we'll as a grain eater, and as the government expert has tolt you, ten bushels of corn dry fed in a peu will make 100 pounds of pork; and if fed in connection with grass or other green stuff, will produce 30 per cent more. A word here about my pig pen. selected cool place, where there was plenty of shade and good cir cnlation of air, and 1 built littlI shed and shingled 1t so the pigs could have a dry place to stol during rainy, chilly weather which we frequently experience in this climate during the spring and even summer months. Abou, the time l penned the pigs mJ crop of early sweet corn, abou half au acre, had matured fol table use and when l picked : roasting ear, l pulled up the stalk and gave it to the pigs. Not only that, but I stopped their al. lowance of dry grain and fec them all tie faulty, worm-eater ears or nubbins of my sweet corn which kept them pretty we'll sup piled, for what we could not ca at home sold. It was extra large, fine corn, aud if there is anything hog does enjoy eating 1t is a big, juicy roasting ear No wonder the ravenous razor. back breaks down all barriers and braves death to get at one.
 My garden consisted of about an acre of ground, but long since l adopted the intensive idea and make every foot grow something, even two and three crops of some things, and so into my pig pen went all the vegetables I could not use or sell, cantaloupes, water. melons, cucumbers, tomatoes and and big bundle of grass or something green twice each day. About this time the Poland China blood in my pigs begun to show and the "runty" appearance grad ually began to disappear. OI course fed them the slop from my own house and also from the kitchen of one of my neig hbors, but aside from all the slols and juicy foods 1 gave them all the cool, fresh water they could drink every day. It is really wonderful what quantities of water a hog will consume in 24 hours, espec. ially If the weather is warm and dry.
 During the drouth last summer came near running out of green feed for my pigs, but luckily had a small patch of Kaffir corn which l pulled up and fed them, hve or SIX stalks at a time, and then l tell upon several rows ol