Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-06
J. Thompson, Asst. Prof. Animal
Husbandry, North Dakota A9rl.
Cultural COLLEGE.

The fat or lard hog is a product of
the corn producing area of the Unit.
States. He has been produced in
this area unsurpassed by any other
part OF the world. He has been fed
corn principally along with grass and
has made money for the farmer who
has raised HIM. However, all farm.
ers who have raised the fat or lard
hogs have not succeeded as well per.
haps as they might have done had
they known they could not produce
prime pork on corn alone.
In North Dakota we have conditions
this year that will allow many farm.
ers to put their hogs on the market
to top the quality OF the hogs from
the corr belt, and do it as economi.
cally as can be done anywhere.
The conditions mentioned are thest
young hogs 4 months of age, being
farrowed about April 1st, have had
an abundance of grass pasture which
is ideal for the best development lat
err in their lives. If the feeder does
what he should for his hogs on grass
ne will feed some cor or other grain
along each day to furnish the pig
more nutrients than ke can secure in
his grass diet apd also to help concen'
trate his ration. If this is kept up ia
the time in the pigs life when he is
six seven or even eight months OF
age he is then a large pig gravity
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market. He has built up his frame
and muscle work large enough so that
by feeding six weeks Or two months
LANCER he can be finished off on corr
into the prime pork the market pays
the long price for. This last period
is called the finishing or fattening
period; but this does not mean that
the pig, which has been allowed tC
roam owe a grass pasture Tor better
still a clover pasture) and been fed
perhaps a pound or two pounds of
corn or other grain in the evening
just to keep him growing fine, should
be kept in an eight by ten pen and
stuffed on corn. He will not do best
under these conditions. He wants
some good clean soil to eat every day
as he had all the rest of his life. He
wants a fifty yard straight way where
he can scamper and shake up his in
testines which are as full al a city
boy at grandmother's on .Aanksgiv-
ing Day.
Now corn alone and a lot to scam.
per in will not be all that is necessary
for finishing these hogs. They are
still to grow some and their growth
requires protein material and this pro.
tein material must be in excess of
that found in the corn. Nothing could
be better than the clover field or the
alfalfa field, but as these are frosted
or covered with snow the Canadian
field peas can be used that should
have been threshed out some weeks
before. These should be ground for
best results and fed in slop. If this
slop could be made OF the fresh sep
arated milk so much the better but
il it cannot the hog is thankful for
the field peas and corn or The skim
milk and the corn, and they will show
their appreciation by laying on teir
carcasses a pound to two pounds or
more of fat and muscle eac day.
The ration of corn, should you have
it ground and the field peas, which
ought to be ground, is very we'll mix
ed and makes a good ration when
about five parts of corn are fed with
one part of pea meal, mixed in a fair
ly thick sop. Should the feeder not
have the pea meal and has only the
skim MIX it is we'll to purchase
shorts and make a good slop of the
shorts and milk and feed all the pigs
will clean up without leaving the
trough. We find the pigs like the
slcp of this kind very much and we
feed our corn, If shelled on q floor.
some twenty or thirty minutes before