Year: 1869

By the SOclety'


On motion, adjourned. -
The meeting in point Of numbers and
4.Isnt was a decided success, and the
oninion of all was that they would
make still greater efforts to increase
the usefulness and insure the prosperity
of our State Medical Society.


Keepiux Store Hogs in the summer.


The scarcity and high price of hogs,
makes their keeping and management 10
the best advantage a matter OF unusual
Importance at this time.


Hogs shoald never be turned into the
thiphway. Not only is the unlimited
range quite likely to lead them to run
nT more than is gained from any feed
thew can pick up, but they are daily
EXPOSED 10 be worried by passing dogs,
which renders such loss much more
certain. Then there is the trouble they
eanse by beiHg always ready to enter
any open gate or other place, where
thew may get int to mischief. 1t is cheaper
to keep hogs in yards or pens, than to
tnrp them into the road. The same
feed will often produce more growth;
while the manure may be saved, and all
trouble from strayiDS oil or trespasslng
on Others % avoided.


Where a large number of hogs are
kept, the best place for them is good
clover pasture. If not put IN until the
clover makes some growth, and then
not enough to feed it down close, they
win do we'll. In small enclosures, with
plenty of good water, hogs may be kept
cheaper on Grover than in any other
way.


Where Only n few are kept, the or
chard is the best place for hogs. Ihey
not only pick up the fallen trHlt, and
thus DESTROY a great many injurious in
sects, but they also root out many that
have taken refuge in the soil: A good
many caBker- worms, after having enter
cd the ground and changed into the
pupa state, it is said, are destroyed IN
this way. 1t is quite probable that all
Insects that hogs can destroy, are easier
disposed of in this manner than any
other.


But in all such cases the logs should
be we'll fed. OF course they have the
swill from the kitcL.l and d&igy; but in
many cases this is no enough. Where
many cUws are kept, and there IS about
all the sour milk the hogs eau use, moth
ing moro will be needed in the fore part
or the season. But when the milk faIls
offin August, and the hogs, beng larger,
need more, then there should be some
addition TO this kind of feed. Ia aI
cases where the swlll is not so good, and
there is nos SO much of it, then meal of
some kind of grain should be mixed with
it. Corn is the cheapest, and is most
generally used to feed hogs; but the
meal mixes with the swill much better
if the corn is mixed with oats before
griudisg. A bushel of oats TO bushel
of corn is the best proportion for store
hogs; but when, as at present, oats are
much the dearest feed, one bushel OF
oats to two of corn will be quite help.
Peas and barley are also used in this
way, and the meal, not settling so readi-
ly, makes very good and convenient
feed. All kinds of grain should be
ground for hogs; and this is especially
necessary in the Summer when grain is
Dry and hard, and but little feed is fed
1T q rime--a small amount dong more
good when we'll mixed with the swill,


A. hogs are scarce and high, and corn
cheaD, there can be little doubt that
much more corn will be fed to hogs than
~ USUALLY the case in the summer.
There is also reason to expect that next
fa!l fat hogs will bring good price, 80
farmers will naturally desire to increase
the amount of pork made. Now If good
feeding will not add to the number Of
hogs, IL certainly will add to the amount
OF pork-of hog products made. Hence,
+ tAe aggregate stock of hogs nov on
hand in the United States is ten per cen
'uss than an average, it will take but
small addition Of graiU TO taeir feed
through the summer, to gain this ten
per cent in weight. So farmers having
from 20 to 80 per cent less hogs than
usual, may easily gain this difference 10y
adding few bushels Of corn TO the feed
of each one.


The great difference small amount
of grain makes in such cases, will be
better understood when tits ColS.deIcd
that, when hog has enough to support
life and perhaps make little growth, a
small addition of good feed is almost all
used to produce additional growth; that
while with moderate keeping two
thirds to three-fourths of the feed may
go to support life and present condi-
ton, a small addition of grain may
nearly all 90 to add to the growth. For
this reason small portion of grain
thus fed in the summer seldom fails to
pay. But now it must pay much better
than usual; and there can be little doubt
shat farmers having hogs and corn,
cannot do better than to feed well. And
even when the corn has to DE bought it
will pay well to get enough to secure
good growth.


Another reason for feeding well, is,
that the early market for pork is very
likely to be the best. When any pro
duct is scarce and high, prices usually
keep up until "a present supply is obtain
ed; then the market goes down and the
bulk Of the crop is secured at lower
rates. This may be the case with fat
hogs next fall, when those who sell
early will get the best prices; or, AZ
least, better than any others, except
those that keep very late, when, from
keeping as long in cold weather, the
pork is pretty sure to be more expen-
sive.- Country Gentleman.