Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. [ARTICLE]

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY.

Feeding Pis* the First Three Months. To have good strong pigs, says W. A. Harris in Farm and Home, the sows should be in good flesh, but not over-fat, when the pigs are farrowed. After farrowing the sows must be liberally fed on corn; bran and shipstuff or whole oats may be used instead of the bran and shipstuff. As soon as the pigs begin to eat, which will be at about three weeks old, give them a trough where the sow cannot get at it, and put a little sweet milk in it. Give them but little at a time at first, as what is left will get sour and not be liked by very young pigs. As soon as the youngsters get to coming regularly for their feed, stir in some shipstuff and bran, with a little linseed meal, increasing tbe shipstuff and bran as the pigs require. Whole

oafcs Is an excellent feed, and pigs will learn to eat it while quite young. It is well to feed some corn, say onethird of their feed, and, if the weather is cold, one-half. To make good growth pigs should have about all they can eat, and if not more than one-third of the feed is corn they will not get too fat .to grow well. Feed equal quantities, by measure, of bran and shipstuff, made into a thick slop with milk or water, and feed it before it sours. Feed corn and oats whole and dry after the slop. Pigs ought to have a warm and dry place to sleep; it must be dry. To kill lice rub petroleum where you see’nits. Lastly, don’t expect pigs to grow without liberal feeding, for that is impossible. JLive Stock jSotes. f It is better to keep different kinds of stock separate. That Is especially true if the cattle have horns. Feed the high priced corn to low priced cattle and that will make both corn and cattle worth more. TriE breeder who neglects to make the brood sows comfortable is not only cruel but is • an enemy to his own pocket-book. Some people who give the cattle the best of care neglect the hogs. The hog will repay good care as well as other kinds of stock. Guard against constipation in swine. The fat forming foods tend to produce costiveness. The opposite kinds of food tend to prevent it. While calves can be wintered on roughness alone, a better growth can be secured by feeding a little grain, especially in severe cold weather. Don’t be a ninny and feed one big feed once a day, and imagine it the proper thmg. Put yourself in the animal’s place and there would be some kicking. Foamlnc In the Churn. An Ohio subscriber, says the Stockman, is having lots of trouble with his churn or rather in his churn. The cream foams and produces no butter. He feeds his cows corn, fodder and clover hay and uses the cream at a temperature that used to bring good results—still he gets no butter. See that the cows have free aceess to all the salt they want every day. If they have not had this privilege in the past give each an onnee the first day, then miss a day and give another ounce; miss a day and let them go to a trough or box and help themselves. Keep the milk above freezing, 55 degrees is a good temperature for winter. Skim the milk in twenty-four or thirty-six hours and hold the cream not more than three days, thoroughly stirring the whole batch when new cream is added. Let it all be together twenty-four hours before churning at 62 to 65 degrees. Have the churn as warm as 62 degrees when the cream is put into it, and churn at a moderate rate—not too slow, and the butter ought to come.

Vagaries of Cranks. There is no vagary so wild, no folly so absurd concerning milk and buttermilk but that some crank is ready to commend it and support his commendation by the authority of science, says the Jersey Bulletin. The latest that we have met with is the statement that “most springs and wells are impregnated with enough lime and sulphur to hurt the keeping qualities of butter.” At least nine-tenths of the water used in butter-making in the United States is from springs or wells, and it is rather late in the century to begin talk about such water impairing the keeping quality of the butter. The fellow who wrote the quoted words has a ease of water on the brain.

Difference in Cost. Prof. Whitchcr, of the New Hampshire Experiment Station, says the Dairy World, finds that the milk from his herd costs an average of 2.74 cents per quart on good feed. Thfe best cow produced it at a cost of 1.95 cents, while the milk of the poorest cow cost 4.26 cents. On a richer ration the cost from the best cow was reduced to 1.32 cents, while vyth the same cow fed on a poor, innutritious ration, the cost went up to 5.35 cents per quart. Let In the Sunlight. Don’t keep the cow in a dark stable. Eternal gloom will affect a cow as surely as it will affect a human being.