The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-02-13
ENHoUsAND-HEADED kale is one

hogs nicely without other supplement
tai feed. For young growing hogs a
small supplemental feed of grain is
required for best results. The soil
should be made rich for kale, using
plenty of stable manure. Sow the
seed in drills or seed beds early in the
spring and transplant about the 1st of
July, setting the plants three feet
apart each way. Cultivate similar to
corn. If good cultivation is given the
crop will be ready to feed by the list
Of October and will be good in an
ordinary winter until the following
April. The yield will depend of course
upon the fertility of the soil, but
should be from 1 to 40 tons per acre.
An excellent silage is made up of
corn and kale. The cost of producing
kale in Oregon is, under usual condi-
tions, about $2.35 per ton. Kale may
be made especially valuable in reno
waiting old hog lots.
Lice
There are several ways of getting
rid of this almost ever-present pest.
The rubbing post does the work au-
tomatically. An oiled cloth may be
hung over the entrance of the hog
house so that it will touch the hogs as
they go in and out. Dipping is prac-
ticable. 1t is well to dip twice a few
days apart, one for the lice and the
next for the newly Matched nits.
Linseed Oil Meal
Linseed oil meal fed as a supple
ment with wheat middlings or corn
shows a good per cent of gain. Lin
seed meal seems to be characterized
by hard fat in the pigs fed with it.
Marketing
Generally speaking. the time to
market hogs is when they are in prime
condition and are at the weights most
desired on the market (175-225).
when they have reached this stage.
sell. No great good can be obtained
by holding over for a better price. as
the hogs often do not gain enough to
pay for their feed at this stage.
1t is always best to market at some
large market where there is cempeti-
ton in buying. Prices obtained are
always higher at these points than
where sold to itinerant country buy
ers. Ask the Portland Union Stock
Yards Co. to send you free literature
about marketing. prices, etc. Keep in
touch by reading a good market pa
per.
Maturity
In general hogs do not come to
their maturity until they are about
two years old. 1t follows, then, that a
hog that cannot be put in good mar
ketable condition at any period dur
ing its early life is not profitable
hog for one to raise. Almost any
good breed can be brought to this
condition by intelligent feeding.
Millets
Millets as a catch crop" or a sup
Elementary crop can hardly be ex-
celled, Can be used as an excellent
substitute for corn in preparing hogs
for market. In this case the seed
only would be fed. 1t can. however,
be used as a forage.
Milo
Milo has proved a good dry-iand
crop. The composition is almost the
same as corn. While not grown to
any extent in this territory, its posi-
bilities as an efficient stock food are
large.
Mineral Matter in Feed
One of the most necessary points in
hog feeding, almost as necessary to
their welfare as the food they eat, is
the supplying them at all times with
mineral matter in some shape or form.
In the blood of the hog will be found
chlorides of sodium and potassium,
phosphates of soda, lime, magnesia
and phosphates. To supply these in
gradients and to keep the hogs in per-
fectly healthy condition, free from
ricketts, and other like diseases, sup
ply of mineral matter is absolutely es-
sential and wood ashes in very large
degree contains these requisite ingre-
dents. Ashes contain lime. carbon,
potassium, phosphates. etc. and in
every hog house these should be a
box always kept well supplied with
this staple form of food. 1t is not
quite enough to throw the ashes inside
the pen or in the run. as in winter
snow covers them and they freeze
solid. or they are trampled into the
k.adsug of the hogs and rendered USE