Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-12-05

SOW is getting about pounds OF grain
each day for each 100 pounds of her
weight. This will be within week or
ten days after she has farrowed. She
should be fed morning and evening.
Kitchen raps and Stops will be good
for her and will reduce the grain need
ed somewhat. These Stops must not
contain any soap or glass.
AS corn is the most available grain
in most sections of the South, it will
have to be relied upon for feeding both
the sows and pigs. With the grazing
crops which are suggested for hogs a
fairly well-balanced ration will be OBJ
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When you are about ready to wean
the pigs reduce the sow's feed so that
by the time the pigs are weaned she
will have only about pounds of grain
each day for each 100 pounds of her
weight Keep her on Bermuda pas
ture and let her have this ration until
she is in good condition. Keep sows
in good flesh, but not excessively fat.
Sows can be made to produce two
filters each year. When this is de-
sired they should be bred at the first
period of heat after the pigs are
weaned. Sows bred twice each year
will not produce so many pigs in each
litter as when bred only once a year,
but more pigs should be raised in a
year from each SOW.
1t does not pay to try to raise hogs
on grain alone. In fact, the profit in
pig raising, especially in the South,
depends directly on the amount of pas
ture of some kind used to enable the
pig to make its gain in weight. Of
the southern forage crops peanuts, soy
beans, rape, and cowpeas are espec-
tally valuable. Now, these are not
available all through the year, there
fore we use a series of crops. For
example, have some winter oats on
which the sows can be turned as soon
as the pigs are week or two old.
When these are gone put the pigs on
good Bermuda and lespedeza pasture.
Have a crop of soy beans or cowpeas
coming and turn the pigs on this after
weaving, keeping the sows on the
i Bermuda. When these are gone put
the pigs in peanut patch, and finish
fattening on rape.
The pigs should be weaned at 10 to
u weeks of age and should then
weigh about 30 pounds. They should
have learned to eat little grain by
going to the sow's trough. Then begin
to feed them. Give them every day
grain equal to per cent of their
weight. A pig weighing 80 pounds
should have 0.6 pound of grain; 10
pigs of this weight, 6 pounds, etc
Divide this into two feeds, morning
and evening. This amount of grain
will make them grow nicely on good
pasture. AS they grow, increase the
amount of grain. When they weigh
about 1875 pounds give them 3 pei
cent of their weight in grain, and
when they weigh about $50 pounds
each give them 4 per cent and finish
them off, slaughtering in the winter
on cool day. Pigs properly fed should
weigh 200 pounds at months old. Dc
not feed cottonseed meal to hogs.
1t is not necessary to spend a lot OF
money to carry out such plan. Oi
\ course. the Bermuda pasture where
\ the sows are turned should have 6
good fence. The crops on which the
f pigs are grazed can be fenced with
homemade hurdles of lumber O,
woven wire, which may be moved as
, desired, and the pigs will stay in il
! while the pasture is good. Ten pigs
can be kept on half an acre of one OF
| the crops mentioned above from foul
8 to eight weeks, depending on theil
i size.
2 8. A poor pig is not worth raising
5 or feeding. Your pigs should bf
1 sired nv a good purebred Durco-Jer'