The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-30

every sow and pig In the whole outfit
Is standing with it's front feet up on
the fence and squealing as II half
starved. Ii hay or any other feed Is
given them they pay little attention to
it. At the end of two months take
the sows off and leave the pigs, carry
ing on the diet-which Is kept down as
low as possible in it's protein content
until the end of six months, at which
time | increase the carbohydrate diet
for two months longer, until we finish
our hogs. Under this feeding, pigs
sixty days old should weigh sixty
pounds; and they will do it easily
when all the conditions are right.
SIN fair weather, without any arti-
fetal regulation of conditions, pigs fed
on this plan should weigh sixty pounds
in sixty days, one hundred and fifty
pounds in six months and two hundred
to two hundred and twenty-five pounds
at the end of eight months. The cost
of producing pork on the Broadview
Farm, under the feeding system l
have described, is ordinarily two and a
half cents pound Sometimes it is a
small fraction of cent more than this.
1t is safe to say that this system, con-
scientiously followed by any farmer in
this section of Montana, will produce
pork at cost of three cents pound. >
SboatS Killed Nv Coarse Fiber.
Before Diminishing the subject OF
| feeding alfalfa to hogs. it should be
said that many hogs are lost every
year by feeders in alfalfa sections be.
cause they do not understand the di
gestive machinery and process of the
II In traf
was attending the dry-farmine con
gress / repeatedly received word from
my superintendent that my shoat
were dying off at an alarming rate
The messages said that the pigs wer,
tucked in the flank that they dragged
around few days and then died. Al
they were running on alfalfa pasture
: | surmissed that they had managed t.
get hold of some digitalis along TIL
river bottom and had been poisoned b.
it. | wired back to shut the shoats u
in a pen. The day / returned home
three big husky shoats had just die
and others were languishing. | toll
t the boys, who thought the cholera ha
struck the drove, that we would hol
+ an autopsy and perhaps learn some
thing.
, I'm every one of those shoats tina
! had died we found a hard impaction G
coarse alfalfa fiber at the upper en-
of the large intestine. Then made
| mash, fortified with one drop Of Gre
, ton oil for each of the shoats an
: three drops for each of the sows. Al
: ter that we didn't lose any more hogs
but we knew better than to give on
: swine chance to impast themselve
| again with coarse alfalfa fiber
y According to the observations of thi
+ specialist, alfalfa is the most abuse
r animalfood in the world in the matte
n % tha wsetnfulness with which it
4 generally fed; and he insists that thi
q abuse is so common, even among care
Q full feeders, that it may be called un
= yersal without danger of slanderin
+ more than a few persons. He insist
q also that this waste in most cases h
9 gins with harvesting, where, under tt
a common practice, alfalfa is cut so la
in its development that larger pr
g portion of the leaves drop off in II
# process of harvesting and that, undt
J., these conditions, the straw and the +
u mainder of leaves adhering to it ha'
J. not an actual food value to exceed tv
: dollars and fifty sents a ton. OF cour