The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-02-13
Swine Institutes
Very Successful.

The hog Institutes held at Wabas-
so and Belview last week were very
successful. Mr.. H. G. Zavoral was
very much pleased with the interest
shown in these meetings and it is
very evident that the farmers who
attended were very much pleased
with the institute work which he
presented at these meetings. ''The
great need of the farmers in the
care of brood sows at this time of
the years is to provide the proper
kind of feed to supply muscle and
hone growth" Mr.. Zavoral states,
"Those high priced feeds which con
tain high percentage Of protein
or the ones that provide the muscle
and bone building nutrients in the
ration and can best be supplied with
the use of alfalfa hay, oats, skim
Ililk and tankage.' The profits in
feeding, as he brought out by charts
from actual experiments, ~ale much
greater when butter-milk, skim milk
or tankage are used in connection
with corn, as compared to a ration
! which consists entirely of com and
water for fatting hogs. With
careful feeding and provisions for
exercise of the brood sows, care
full attention at narrowing time with
methods of percaution against worm
infestations and disease the SO per
cent of mortality in pigs from far
rowing time to weaving time can
practically be eliminated.
A plan was clearly laid out how
TO produce hogs at greater prof
than is now being realized by mos
hog men.
l. Use lots of course feed such
alfalfa hay and protein feeds such
as tankage to brood sows.
2. See that sows get plenty of ex-
ercise.
3. Provide sanitary narrowing qu
narrowing time.
4. Prevent worm infestations and
other preventable hog troubles.
5. Provision for minerals in COM
iination with farm feeds in necessary
to supply the deficiency Of minerals
in our farm feeds. This can best
j be supplied by purchasing the in
dividual ingredients to make up 40
per cent steam bone meal, 30 pei
cent calsium carbonate or ground
. limestone, and 20 per cent salt. Many
mineral company agents are now II;
the country selling minerals to farm
ers already mixed. Some of these
are good and some of them are not.
They all claim the above mixture,
but as previously stated the surest
way is secure the individual ingre-
dients and mix them on the farm re-
CARELESS of any additional cost. IN
most instances it will be saving.
Mr.. A. M. Dennistoun of the Farm
Bureau also attended some CT the
meetings. He is now visiting all OF
the banks in the county collecting
the Farm Bureau membership dues.
The checks issued by the members
to the Farm Bureau last spring dur-
ing the membership campaign which
were due and payable after January
1st 1924, are being cashed at the
hanks. Members should provide Tor
this in their accounts.
The County Agent took part by
conducting the institute and discuss
inc the subjects outside the regular
program subjects, the purebred slres
campaign, the hog cholera school
which is to be held at Wabasso on
February 26th and 9th, calling at
tention to the boys and girls cluD
work, discussing briefly the Egg and
Poultry Marketing Association work
as it pertains to the local organiza
zion plan, distributed the Farmers
Institute ANIMALS on 1.-THE Dairy
Cow and discussed minor rotation
for hog pastures adjacent to the
farmstead as means of controlling
hog diseases.
The U. S. Department Of Agri-
culture motion picture entitled "Ex-
it Ascaris" on the control of round
worms in hogs which are the cause
Of 80 per cent of the losses in pigs
after three weeks of age, was shown
at Belview. Seventy farmers in the
vicinity attended this meeting. Other
meeting of this nature will be ar
ranged for in February developing
more particularly some other sub
jects such as dairying, legumes, etc
Lynn Sheldon,
County Agent.