The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-06-24
Farm Topics
SUCCESSFUL PIG GROWER.

SUCCESSFUL PIG GROWER.
Our experience in saving the pigs
and getting them started right has
been for about fourteen years.
The first thing necessary TO De
successful hog raiser is to get READY
in a right way. | build my houses
SO the SOW can keep warm II the ther-
mometer stands at zero. ] breed my
sows to farrow in February and IN
August. In the fall | SOW about three
matches of rye and when it gets up
good | let my pigs run on 1t until
about Christmas, then / take them
off for the spring litter. When the
pigs are about one month old Degln
to give them warm cream separator
milk, and by the time they are nine
or ten weeks old / have them ready
to wean and push to finish at seven
or eight months.-Warren j. Smith,
in the Indiana Farmer.
SILAGE IN LIEU OF PASTURE.
Referring to feeding corn sllage
the year round, Hoard's Dalryman
says that when land is too expensive
to pasture, that is, when silage from
an acre will feed three or four cows
while an acre of pasture will feed only
one or two COWS, the silo becomes one
of the most economical as well as the
best methods of preparing succulent
feed for COWS the year round. we
believe that silo is one OF the best
methods of supplementing short pas
ture during the dry time in summer.
Silage is not equal to good June pas
ture, but we do not know OF a better
substitute. There is no question but
that more milk can be produced per
acre by the use of the silo than from
an acre of grass.
This is just the thing a good many
dairy farmers have yet to fully
realize, that corn silage can always
be relied on for producing milk, and
especially is the thing to carry milk
production through dry seasons when
there is no grass pasturage.
FEEDING COWS FOR PROFIT.
A practical dairy farmer in Canada,
referring to his experience, in the
Farm and Dairy, lays down the fol-
lowing rules for dairy feeding at the
! greatest profit:
First, build a summer silo and
grow more corn, using ensilaSe to
supplement pastures in summer
Second, take fifteen acres of land
Con a hundred-acre farm near the
buildings. Divide into three fields.
Follow three-year rotation thereon.
First year: Corn an early variety.
Feed in August and September.
Second year: Mixed grain, oats,
peas and barley (four bushels per
acre. seed down ten pounds red
clover four pounds timothy per acre.
Cut quite green in July. Do not al
low to lodge.
Third year: Glover cut in late
June and early August.
Do not hesitate to feed this fifteen
acres of crop in the summer, even II
things should look blue for the win
ter forage supply. Let no considera-
ton prevent it's utilization at the
proper time, not even an abundance
of grass. 1t will always pay to feed
such forage in summer.
MIXING CATTLE BREEDS.
There is a good deal Of force in the
following, on the subject of crossing
breeds, by a correspondent of the
Breeders Gazette. He says:
} The tendency of the American
farmer in the past has been to hybrid
ize all his farm animals. Even his
hens all became a mixture after
year or two. Especially has this
been the case with farmers in the
, Eastern States. Those who had Jer
sey COWS have crossed and re-crossec
) with Holstein-Fresian bulls unit
= they have got neither one nor the
other, and some of them come yer!
near to nothing. Some farmers
1 seemed to think they could outwi
i the Almighty by crossing the Jerse!
: with the Holstein and SO get the larg'
G flow of the Holstein with the ricl
: milk of the Jersey. The differenc
: between the two breeds is too great
g Nature was shocked and dumbfound
k ed. The result has been in man
: cases the small yield of the Jerse
" coupled with the poor quality OF tn
Holstein.
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