The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-05-27
AGRICULTURAL NOTES
Sow At borrowing Time May Turn
Temperamental, Says Prof. Evvard-

DOW AL BORROWING 1.-The WAY Turn
Temperamental, Says Prof. Evvard-
A sow at farowing time is much like
an opera star-she is likely to betem-
peramental. AS the expected birth
day nears, the saw may become fret
full and that is the time when she
should be given the greatest care and
attention. This is one of the points
stressed in the Radio Farm School of
the Blue Valley Creamery Institute
by Prof. j ohm M. Evvard of the Iowa
Agricultural Experiment Station.
Sometimes one has a fretful sow
that is much disturbed by being close
to others as the happy event ap.
proaches and in that case it is well
to transfer her to an individual hog
house where she may be by her on
sweet lonesome and have most every
thing her own way" says Prof. Ev-
ward. ''It is also a good idea to get
her into the narrowing quarters few
days before the expected hour. A
couple of weeks in close quarters il
bad business; two to five days is ap-
proximately the ideal.
at is a good idea to be on hanc
when the fun starts, and lend what
ever assistance is necessary. If the
sow is quartered in a cold place SC
that the pigs are likely to become
chilled, the pigs should be removed,
one by one as they appear, and driea
off perhaps with an old but clean
gunny sack. After the family has
all arrived they are returned for fire.
quent musings, say two to four hours
between feelings, until such time as
the sow and family can make "a &C
of it. themselves. In a good many
cases it is wise to leave the first pig
hang around while so that the SOW
may catch its odor and thus under
stand that new obligations are in
order. Otherwise sows are known to
disown their pigs if all are taken
away as they come. 1t seems as if
the kindly pull of the piglets at the
mother sow's udder has the effect of
putting joyous maternal feelings into
the heart of the sow.
"The pigs that are removed from
the sow may be put in a wooden tub
or basket lined with gunny sacks and
fioored with straw. An earthern
jug filled with warm water will as.
sist in keeping the pigs from chilling
although some folks use warm bricks,
hot water bottles or jug. We keep
water before the sows all the time
and usually feed them "a hours af-
ter the pigs have come. If the sows
have plenty of milk we start out with
corn or other basal grains, but if
milk is not available We start feed
ing earlier and on richer feeds, adj
ding milk, tankage, wheat middlings,
and others. Warm Stops are often
advantageous in getting the milk
now started. !s~','- i-4-s S.~-t"
r.
Pyrotol Stocks Large; Best to Or
der Now-On May 1, exactly one
half of the 100000 pounds of
pyrotol allotted Minnesota for the
fiscal year ending June 80 had been
sold. 1t is important the Minnesota
consumers give large orders in May
and June, for the next fiscal years
allotment to the state will be based
in large part upon the aI(unt pur-
chased this year. Pyrotol is compare
lively cheap and stick of it will do
the business just as well as stick of
dynamite which costs more money.
Give orders to your county agent or
send them direct to the division of
Agricultural Engineering, University
Farm, st. Paul.
Dean Coffey Advises Colt Crop In
crease-''The committee on military
affairs" says Dean w. C.. Coffey Of
the university's department of agri-
culture, "added 100000 to the
army's appropriation for the purpose
of buying horses and mules. Why
According to evidence submitted to
the committee, the average age of
horses in the the United States army
will be Is years at the end of next
June. And it is said that the army
is now short of it's requirement to
the extent of 1866 horses and ZIP
mules. ..
eff not Immediately, we shall soon
awaken to the fact that like the Unit
ed States army the number of horses