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VOL. xxxn. [% n INDIANAPOLI& IND., MARCH 13. 1897. NO. 11 EXPERIENCE DEPART! BOO RAISING.--No. 2. Choice of Stock not Choice of Breeds, But Appearance of Individual ParentB. Treatment of Both Before, and of Sow During Pregnancy and Farrowing. 1st Premium —It has been our aim in seleoling parent ho-;s, where we have that privilege, to select a sow having three special qualities; proliflcness, good as a suckler, and of good disposition. To have these qualities she should be rather on the rough order. I believe that many of our fine hog raisers have been breeding too fine, or in other words, selecting the beauties. Neither do they have as many or as large pigs, and they are a great deal more apt to have trouble when farrowing. The sow should be long, especially under the belly, with from 10 to 13 teats; not too short in the neck, nor too short nosed, both should be medium. If the nose is too short and thick they are more apt to show a bulldogish disposition. The ears should be thin, not so lappy as to shade the eyes. Once in buying I had the privilege of choosing one of two young sows for breeding. One was a perfect beauty; the other not near so nice, but deep up and down. I choose the latter, whieh made as fine a brood sow, I think, as I ever owned. The other died farrowing. As for the male I prefer him rather on the fine order, not particularly in the bone; but in the general makeup. As for feed, be very careful not to feed too much corn at any time, except when finishing for market. We have seven voung sows this winter, three full blood Polands, the others are grades. We feed equal parts of bran and shorts, mixed to a slop, by pouring boiling water over it and stirring so that all will be scalded, cooling and thinning with milk or dish water if we have it; if not we use cold water. This Is mixed fresh every time we feed, twice dally, what we think they need, together with two ears of corn to the hog. From one to two weeks before farrowing we put each in a house made purposely, with small lot or field where they can exercise We give them nice straw or shredded fodder, on corn cobs, on a floor just laid on the ground. Never put straw on damp ground. H. S. 2d Premium. As a beginning, go to some reliable breeder and select a herd of even, well developed sows, and have an honest man's word for it that they are from mothers noted for large litters, good sticklers and uniformity of breeding qualities. Select a male that is of sufficient age to transmit vigor and vitality and strong in the points in which your sows are weak. To get this, it is best to get your boar out of a different herd from that from which your sows were selected. iour herd once rightly started,study their good and bad points carefully, and year after year discard all that do not prove themselves prolific breeders of good uniform litters. Also, keep no bow that does not prove a quiet mother and a good suckler. Retain your herd at the desired number by adding, year by year, gilts from your choicest sows. This is Jar better than buying your brood sows here and there, never having any particular type of hog. Each year buy a good ujoroughbred boar, and buy him with a «ew of strengthening points of weakness in your own herd. Tnis plan, closely loiiowed, will prove economical and most desirable. At the time of coupling both male and female should be in good condition, but not fat They should have "aa plenty of evercise, a grass run, if in season, and if not, they should have some rotables. During pregnancy the sow snouid not have too much corn, plenty of exercise, and in season, the run of a rt!«ve,r neld* If (trass is not to be had the uettciency should be supplied by wheat ,'*ni artichokes, or other roots. At farrowing time, she should have a good warm bed, with clean dry straw and be left alone. Nature created her to farrow in secret, and the presence of an attendant usually does more harm than good. Henry Co. W. W. Pbigq. 3d Premium.—It is supposed first that we have one of those good hog-houses described by our neighbors, in their recent articles, or at least we ought to have, if we expect to make a success of raising pigs especially in the winter. Then we must have a good sow and have her in good flesh to do well. A few days before farrowing put her up in your pen and make her a good bed, so that she will get accustomed to the surroundings. Feed her on light foods, such as wheat screenings,bran,middlings,slops, etc., and by all means have water or slop handy when she farrows, that she maj ways thoroughbred) and good size. One farmer helped me pick out a few sows, two or three years ago, and he said "Now Collins, that pretty little black sow, all tucked up, she ain't worth nothing. Bhe She ain't long enough, ain't no room for lots of pigs or for big pigs." He pointed to a rangy, deep sow and said "she's worth a dozen of them little things." I bought both of them and he was right. The small boned sow brought four to six and the rangy sow seldom gave me less than 10 to 13 pigs. If our stock could all take on prison stripes when they fall below a good business standard, both in number, size and quality we would "learn somethin." I ride "old Sam" by farms with straggly strings of pigs, from peaked runts up to two or three good ones, in each small litter. Occasionally I run by a farm with OUB PREMIUM ORGAN FROM THE FIRM OF _. WULSCHNER S SON, CITY, TO BE GIVEN AWAY AS A PREMIUM, APRIL, 1897. have a drink. This one thing may save vour litter of pigs, as a sow at that time is feverish, thirsty, more or less excitable, and in the absence of something to eat or drink,will often take up a pig,which constitutes a tempting morsel to allay the thirst or hunger, and if one goes they nearly always all go. Continue to feed on light foods for two or three days. Then gradually add corn or oil-cake meal, or both to the rations, and a little of any of the stock foods, such as International, Pratt's or Parker's. Give her all she will eat until pigs are weaned. Gibson Co. C. Y. Hog raising for profit depends on early maturity. The animal from birth to finish must make a thrifty growth. To maintain a steady growth is important. Also an item to be considered is economical feeding; but there is no economy in restricting the ration. Oreat care should be taken in selecting breeding stock. Both the dam and sire should denote thrift. Brood sows, both before and after farrowing, should be fed on nourishing food, such as ground oats, bran and ship- stuff. For spring litters have them farrow the last of March or flrst of April. Prepare warm quarters; this does not require expensive buildings. Such can be made of cheap lumber. If lumber is not convenient prepare a shelter of straw and fodder. J. REVIEW. Having just read carefully our copy for thia week and Mr. Hart's "Hog raising, No. 2," I sat and soratched my head and said: "Well,what is the chief mistake we farmers are making?" - As I think over the successful farmers about here, there is not one who makes lots of money out of hogs that is not awful careful to secure high blood (not »I- a smooth, uniform lot of hogs. Suppose two such farmers were to trade herds when four months old. Well wouldn't No. 1 wake up? We all know that No. 2 would greatly improve his scrappy herd, but he could never make them even in sight of the possibilities of his own herd. Mr. Hart told me he would think of taking even a choice sow from a common feed lot of a farmer, at farrowing time, to try to make show pigs of her litter" Don't that mean something to us? He said he could take new born pigs for the same good sow, where she had been pushed while carrying them, so that they came big and "sassy," to start with, and not so many would be over laid, because they had life and strength enough to get away, and at 20 days he would have them weigh about twice as many pounds as those from the same sow when not crowded during pregnancy. Mr. H. is criticized "like sixty" for making his sows "fat enough for market," "before farrowing. Mr. H. says "with such feed" corn will fill her up with leaf fat, while his "slop" feed will make marbled meat. It will also give size and strength of bone and muscle in both mother and pigs. The only way you can feed the pig before birth is by feeding the sow, and a balanced ration will make strong and large pigs. I seldom sell hogs too coarse any more. My brother had a bunch of bandbox hogs a few years ago that he couldn't get up to more than 100 pounds, jammed up inside with corn lard, till their stomachs would hold about two quarts of slop. Didn't Mr. Hart say that his big sows would drink from four to six gallons at one time? They laughed at him at the institute, but he invited them to come and see. A common wooden bucket holds about two and a half gallons. Lack of capacity ln size of bone and vital organs is one of our most common mistakes. Last spring we were writing in this department about one man tending 25 acres of corn and a good friend in Iowa wrote me that he planted with a "Lister" and tended £0 acres by himself. It snatched my breath away. Two years ago I found a pocket account book in the pike. It had running accounts like this: April 2d, took 26 eggs to store, came to 2G cents; bought one pound nails, four cents; assafoetida, three cents; matches two cents; tobacco five cents, and sugar 10 cents. The store owes me two cents. That man may be honest, but he'll be forever poor if he lives a thousand years. The capacity of every move he makes is so small. Opportunities are passing by for making money; some penny chances, some $1 chances, some $100 or $1000 chanoes remain. It costs about as much trouble and feed to oarry a bunchy line of stock as a rangy line. To raise a five pig litter weakly, and with two runts, as an. eight pig litter of big square fellows. Our stock need more capacity, bone, muscle, vital organs. Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith once said that the difference between well- bred stock and scrub stock lies in the power of assimilation. As I came by Cambridge city last summer, on my wheel, I called on Mrs. Meredith and after enjoying a good visit,'she had some of her cattle brought around to show me, and among other gocd points I couldn't help thinking of her statement at Lafayette, thatthe question is one of assimilation. But on seeing the well-sprung ribs, tbe wide flanks, the deep chest, I was Impressed with that equally important characteristic, capacity. We are glad people don't think as muoh of their hogs and fence posts and things as of their sweet little daughters and similar topics; but we may state that the flood of copy has greatly subsided and our coming topics are hardly full enough. ft should also be remembered in connection with the appreciative remarks in late numbers, relative to this department that the soul of the department is in this good, original copy which our subscribers have cheerfullly furnished. The writer has often thought that a medium of exchange of our overflow thoughts, arising from the rich home life of our American citizenship, would be a feast of good things, and that while "blessing others we might ourselves be blessed." Will our writers accept thanks and tokens of appreciation, whether your copy can be published or not, for helping us out so nicely in the long winter months. And please remember that the busy six months now beginning will require special effort, if we keep our department up to the standard now set,during the weeks to come. No, 54, March 20. Hog raising No. 3. Care and feed of sow and pigs after farrowing. Also exercise. What should pies weigh at 60 days; at 270 days? No. 55, March 27. Hog cholera and other fatal diseases. The sanitation of hog raising. No. 56, April 0. Fertilizers. Where can commercial fertilizers be economically used and how? No. 57, April 10. The best fence post and how to preserve it. No. 58, April 17. Best material for roofing. Experience in painting roofs. Material. No. 59, April 24. Renovating an old orchard. No. 60, May 1. Mistakes and failures of recent years. In writing don't fail to note new points not generally known; also other points of real experience. Address all copy 10 days before publication. Let our subscribers write their experience. The purpose of the department is not exaustive articles but brief, pithy, E radical experiences. A sort of heart to eart talk, suoh as you enjoy with a neighbor. Bead our excellent artioles on this subject. We were favored with some 30 letters. Those we are able to publish contain most of the points made. Address all copy to E. H. Collins. Carmel. Appreciates the Farmer. Ed-Toe* _ndi_.>_. riuai: Indeed, I appreciate the Weekly visits of the Farmer, Among like publications I regard it as the equalof any in praotical Information for the busy, wide-awake, up-to-date farmer, and" especially well- adapted to those living in the central West. D. B. Hostetter. Boachdale. Bone, feathers and shells contain and demand phosphates, therefore lime should be a factor in feeding. To this end broken oyster shell is valuable and easily got, usually.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1897, v. 32, no. 11 (Mar. 13) |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Transcript | VOL. xxxn. [% n INDIANAPOLI& IND., MARCH 13. 1897. NO. 11 EXPERIENCE DEPART! BOO RAISING.--No. 2. Choice of Stock not Choice of Breeds, But Appearance of Individual ParentB. Treatment of Both Before, and of Sow During Pregnancy and Farrowing. 1st Premium —It has been our aim in seleoling parent ho-;s, where we have that privilege, to select a sow having three special qualities; proliflcness, good as a suckler, and of good disposition. To have these qualities she should be rather on the rough order. I believe that many of our fine hog raisers have been breeding too fine, or in other words, selecting the beauties. Neither do they have as many or as large pigs, and they are a great deal more apt to have trouble when farrowing. The sow should be long, especially under the belly, with from 10 to 13 teats; not too short in the neck, nor too short nosed, both should be medium. If the nose is too short and thick they are more apt to show a bulldogish disposition. The ears should be thin, not so lappy as to shade the eyes. Once in buying I had the privilege of choosing one of two young sows for breeding. One was a perfect beauty; the other not near so nice, but deep up and down. I choose the latter, whieh made as fine a brood sow, I think, as I ever owned. The other died farrowing. As for the male I prefer him rather on the fine order, not particularly in the bone; but in the general makeup. As for feed, be very careful not to feed too much corn at any time, except when finishing for market. We have seven voung sows this winter, three full blood Polands, the others are grades. We feed equal parts of bran and shorts, mixed to a slop, by pouring boiling water over it and stirring so that all will be scalded, cooling and thinning with milk or dish water if we have it; if not we use cold water. This Is mixed fresh every time we feed, twice dally, what we think they need, together with two ears of corn to the hog. From one to two weeks before farrowing we put each in a house made purposely, with small lot or field where they can exercise We give them nice straw or shredded fodder, on corn cobs, on a floor just laid on the ground. Never put straw on damp ground. H. S. 2d Premium. As a beginning, go to some reliable breeder and select a herd of even, well developed sows, and have an honest man's word for it that they are from mothers noted for large litters, good sticklers and uniformity of breeding qualities. Select a male that is of sufficient age to transmit vigor and vitality and strong in the points in which your sows are weak. To get this, it is best to get your boar out of a different herd from that from which your sows were selected. iour herd once rightly started,study their good and bad points carefully, and year after year discard all that do not prove themselves prolific breeders of good uniform litters. Also, keep no bow that does not prove a quiet mother and a good suckler. Retain your herd at the desired number by adding, year by year, gilts from your choicest sows. This is Jar better than buying your brood sows here and there, never having any particular type of hog. Each year buy a good ujoroughbred boar, and buy him with a «ew of strengthening points of weakness in your own herd. Tnis plan, closely loiiowed, will prove economical and most desirable. At the time of coupling both male and female should be in good condition, but not fat They should have "aa plenty of evercise, a grass run, if in season, and if not, they should have some rotables. During pregnancy the sow snouid not have too much corn, plenty of exercise, and in season, the run of a rt!«ve,r neld* If (trass is not to be had the uettciency should be supplied by wheat ,'*ni artichokes, or other roots. At farrowing time, she should have a good warm bed, with clean dry straw and be left alone. Nature created her to farrow in secret, and the presence of an attendant usually does more harm than good. Henry Co. W. W. Pbigq. 3d Premium.—It is supposed first that we have one of those good hog-houses described by our neighbors, in their recent articles, or at least we ought to have, if we expect to make a success of raising pigs especially in the winter. Then we must have a good sow and have her in good flesh to do well. A few days before farrowing put her up in your pen and make her a good bed, so that she will get accustomed to the surroundings. Feed her on light foods, such as wheat screenings,bran,middlings,slops, etc., and by all means have water or slop handy when she farrows, that she maj ways thoroughbred) and good size. One farmer helped me pick out a few sows, two or three years ago, and he said "Now Collins, that pretty little black sow, all tucked up, she ain't worth nothing. Bhe She ain't long enough, ain't no room for lots of pigs or for big pigs." He pointed to a rangy, deep sow and said "she's worth a dozen of them little things." I bought both of them and he was right. The small boned sow brought four to six and the rangy sow seldom gave me less than 10 to 13 pigs. If our stock could all take on prison stripes when they fall below a good business standard, both in number, size and quality we would "learn somethin." I ride "old Sam" by farms with straggly strings of pigs, from peaked runts up to two or three good ones, in each small litter. Occasionally I run by a farm with OUB PREMIUM ORGAN FROM THE FIRM OF _. WULSCHNER S SON, CITY, TO BE GIVEN AWAY AS A PREMIUM, APRIL, 1897. have a drink. This one thing may save vour litter of pigs, as a sow at that time is feverish, thirsty, more or less excitable, and in the absence of something to eat or drink,will often take up a pig,which constitutes a tempting morsel to allay the thirst or hunger, and if one goes they nearly always all go. Continue to feed on light foods for two or three days. Then gradually add corn or oil-cake meal, or both to the rations, and a little of any of the stock foods, such as International, Pratt's or Parker's. Give her all she will eat until pigs are weaned. Gibson Co. C. Y. Hog raising for profit depends on early maturity. The animal from birth to finish must make a thrifty growth. To maintain a steady growth is important. Also an item to be considered is economical feeding; but there is no economy in restricting the ration. Oreat care should be taken in selecting breeding stock. Both the dam and sire should denote thrift. Brood sows, both before and after farrowing, should be fed on nourishing food, such as ground oats, bran and ship- stuff. For spring litters have them farrow the last of March or flrst of April. Prepare warm quarters; this does not require expensive buildings. Such can be made of cheap lumber. If lumber is not convenient prepare a shelter of straw and fodder. J. REVIEW. Having just read carefully our copy for thia week and Mr. Hart's "Hog raising, No. 2," I sat and soratched my head and said: "Well,what is the chief mistake we farmers are making?" - As I think over the successful farmers about here, there is not one who makes lots of money out of hogs that is not awful careful to secure high blood (not »I- a smooth, uniform lot of hogs. Suppose two such farmers were to trade herds when four months old. Well wouldn't No. 1 wake up? We all know that No. 2 would greatly improve his scrappy herd, but he could never make them even in sight of the possibilities of his own herd. Mr. Hart told me he would think of taking even a choice sow from a common feed lot of a farmer, at farrowing time, to try to make show pigs of her litter" Don't that mean something to us? He said he could take new born pigs for the same good sow, where she had been pushed while carrying them, so that they came big and "sassy," to start with, and not so many would be over laid, because they had life and strength enough to get away, and at 20 days he would have them weigh about twice as many pounds as those from the same sow when not crowded during pregnancy. Mr. H. is criticized "like sixty" for making his sows "fat enough for market," "before farrowing. Mr. H. says "with such feed" corn will fill her up with leaf fat, while his "slop" feed will make marbled meat. It will also give size and strength of bone and muscle in both mother and pigs. The only way you can feed the pig before birth is by feeding the sow, and a balanced ration will make strong and large pigs. I seldom sell hogs too coarse any more. My brother had a bunch of bandbox hogs a few years ago that he couldn't get up to more than 100 pounds, jammed up inside with corn lard, till their stomachs would hold about two quarts of slop. Didn't Mr. Hart say that his big sows would drink from four to six gallons at one time? They laughed at him at the institute, but he invited them to come and see. A common wooden bucket holds about two and a half gallons. Lack of capacity ln size of bone and vital organs is one of our most common mistakes. Last spring we were writing in this department about one man tending 25 acres of corn and a good friend in Iowa wrote me that he planted with a "Lister" and tended £0 acres by himself. It snatched my breath away. Two years ago I found a pocket account book in the pike. It had running accounts like this: April 2d, took 26 eggs to store, came to 2G cents; bought one pound nails, four cents; assafoetida, three cents; matches two cents; tobacco five cents, and sugar 10 cents. The store owes me two cents. That man may be honest, but he'll be forever poor if he lives a thousand years. The capacity of every move he makes is so small. Opportunities are passing by for making money; some penny chances, some $1 chances, some $100 or $1000 chanoes remain. It costs about as much trouble and feed to oarry a bunchy line of stock as a rangy line. To raise a five pig litter weakly, and with two runts, as an. eight pig litter of big square fellows. Our stock need more capacity, bone, muscle, vital organs. Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith once said that the difference between well- bred stock and scrub stock lies in the power of assimilation. As I came by Cambridge city last summer, on my wheel, I called on Mrs. Meredith and after enjoying a good visit,'she had some of her cattle brought around to show me, and among other gocd points I couldn't help thinking of her statement at Lafayette, thatthe question is one of assimilation. But on seeing the well-sprung ribs, tbe wide flanks, the deep chest, I was Impressed with that equally important characteristic, capacity. We are glad people don't think as muoh of their hogs and fence posts and things as of their sweet little daughters and similar topics; but we may state that the flood of copy has greatly subsided and our coming topics are hardly full enough. ft should also be remembered in connection with the appreciative remarks in late numbers, relative to this department that the soul of the department is in this good, original copy which our subscribers have cheerfullly furnished. The writer has often thought that a medium of exchange of our overflow thoughts, arising from the rich home life of our American citizenship, would be a feast of good things, and that while "blessing others we might ourselves be blessed." Will our writers accept thanks and tokens of appreciation, whether your copy can be published or not, for helping us out so nicely in the long winter months. And please remember that the busy six months now beginning will require special effort, if we keep our department up to the standard now set,during the weeks to come. No, 54, March 20. Hog raising No. 3. Care and feed of sow and pigs after farrowing. Also exercise. What should pies weigh at 60 days; at 270 days? No. 55, March 27. Hog cholera and other fatal diseases. The sanitation of hog raising. No. 56, April 0. Fertilizers. Where can commercial fertilizers be economically used and how? No. 57, April 10. The best fence post and how to preserve it. No. 58, April 17. Best material for roofing. Experience in painting roofs. Material. No. 59, April 24. Renovating an old orchard. No. 60, May 1. Mistakes and failures of recent years. In writing don't fail to note new points not generally known; also other points of real experience. Address all copy 10 days before publication. Let our subscribers write their experience. The purpose of the department is not exaustive articles but brief, pithy, E radical experiences. A sort of heart to eart talk, suoh as you enjoy with a neighbor. Bead our excellent artioles on this subject. We were favored with some 30 letters. Those we are able to publish contain most of the points made. Address all copy to E. H. Collins. Carmel. Appreciates the Farmer. Ed-Toe* _ndi_.>_. riuai: Indeed, I appreciate the Weekly visits of the Farmer, Among like publications I regard it as the equalof any in praotical Information for the busy, wide-awake, up-to-date farmer, and" especially well- adapted to those living in the central West. D. B. Hostetter. Boachdale. Bone, feathers and shells contain and demand phosphates, therefore lime should be a factor in feeding. To this end broken oyster shell is valuable and easily got, usually. |
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