Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — THE SWINEHERD. [ARTICLE]

THE SWINEHERD.

Selecting a Brood Sow. The nervous, high strung sow is not hard to pick out and is generally a poor animal to buy. Feed Hogs Regularly. Fattening hogs should not be made to wait for their feed. Regularity in feeding is essential. Profitable Corn. Joseph Beyer, a farmer near Waldron. Md.. sold fifty-eight hogs for $933, an average of over sl6 for each hog. Having kept account of the bushels of corn fed to them, he finds he received $1.54 a bushel for the corn Pasture Make* Cheap Pork. The lowa experiment station was able to make 750 pounds of gain on hogs from one acre of clover, and it was estimated by that station that by the use of plenty of pasture gains could lie made for a little over 3 cents per pound Finishing the Hog. No better place can be had to finish hogs on new corn than a field of rye that has been '‘hogged down.” But they should by all means have corn before the rye begins to fail. This kind, of ration, new corn and rye, will be most too strong for sows and pigs. Give the Runt a Chance. if there is a scarcity of pigs it will usually pay to give the runt a little extra chance.Amoderate ration of middlings or. some other good feed will soon show whether there is anything of value in the runt pig. Well bred hogs will soon respond to good feeding, but the choice pigs of poorly bred bogs are not usually profitable. Pigs Need Exercise. It is best never to confine pigs and young hogs in a small pen. Those who are compelled, by circumstances to do this had better give up the business of raising hogs and try something else. Old hogs may be confined in a pen after they have developed bone and muscle, but young bogs, as well as any other young animals, must have an abundance of exercise.