Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1912 — Page 6

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SEVERAL IMPORTANT FACTORS IN SECURING SUPERIOR HOGS

Too Much Stress Cannot be Laid on Selecting Breeding Swine From Sound. Healthy Animals Cream Separator Has Greatly Reduced Scours —Balanced Ration Best.

(By B. E. LARA.) The farmers of Denmark- secure the best prices for their fancy bacon for the reason that they have established small packing establishments where they can haul their hogs and get their pay for the hogs according to their actual worth. The man who has a lot of thrifty August and September pigs and gives them rational care until grass comes and has them ready for the market by the middle of June will make better money for his feed than he will on any bunch of pigs that he feeds during the year. t On each and eVery farm there should be some provision made for dipping hogs. This not only proves to be an easy and effectual way of disinfecting animals which are brought, onto the farm but it also keeps them free from lice. Possibly there is no other farm animal that can offer as poor an excuse for his existence as the scrub hog. He is an unprofitable animal any way you take him. As an economical pork producer he is a failure. Even his ability to shift for himself does not recommend him to the people within the limit of his range as he has the reputation of preying upon neighboring corn fields when food is scarce. His build naturally adapts him to his manner of living since he is longlegged, narrow In the chest, has a long, narrow snout. This adapts him to his manner of living. With the scrub hog it is “root hog or die,” hence the long snout. His narrow body aids him tn getting through small fence cracks and if he fails to find a place large enough to go through the fence he can soon dig under it with his long snout. There is no standard of excellence for the scrub hog since he may possess almost any form except a beautiful one; he may be of any color. He has the reputation of being able to stand all kinds of rough treatment and still survive. He is regarded as being able to resist disease better than the improved breeds of hogs. We very much doubt whether this quality attributed to the scrub hog is true since we have noticed that hog cholera takes the scrub as well as the well-bred hog. One thing is sure—that the scrub hog can consume more valuable feed and give less in return than any other animal that we know of. A farmer who owns a herd of scrub hogs seldom needs any other corn crib than his hogs. He never gets rich selling pork and in fact if he depended upon his hogs to make him money to buy better bred hogs he would never own better ones. ' The scrub hog usually keeps his owner so poor that he is not able to buy better stock. In fact, this is the excuse usually given for his existence. Poor farming and scrub hogs are usually found associated together. They are near and dear companions. Both make a rapid retreat before a progressive spirit and there is not a better evidence of the general progressiveness of a people than the absence of the scrub hog from a community. Too much stress canont be laid on selecting breeding swine from sound, healthy parents. Animals that are n6t strong in constitution cannot withstand disease as well as those which are strong in that respect. In case hogs are troubled with disease it is almost Impossible to give them medicine or anything else that will prove very helpful. About all we can do is. to feed a ration that can be easily digested and keep them in clean quarters, thoroughly disinfect the pens and let the disease run its course. Whole milk is one of the best feeds for hogs that are suffering with disease of any kind. It is an excellent feed and has often been of great assistance in bringing hogs through spells of sickness. There is no disputing the fact that corn is an ideal hog feed, but every practical feeder admits that better results can be brought about by feeding a ration that is composed of less than two-thirds corn. It is a mistake to think that we cannot afford to buy other feed to mix with the corn. Ordinarily it is a ifiistake not to feed the hogs the liquid before the solid food. Hogs will make from 10 to 12 pounds of meat, lire weight, for sack

Excellent Brood Sow and Litter.

bushel of corn eaten, but because of this too many farmers feed too much corn. The cream separator has greatly reduced scours in pigs because the skim milk can always be fed while sweet. When the sow of good type has proven herself a prolific breeder, an economical feeder, and a good mother, it is a good plan to keep her several years. The mature sow requires only food for maintenance, while the growing one needs food for growth. Furthermore the older one will have an appetite for waste that a young one would not care for. Exercise will help make that streak of lean and streak of fat that is desired.

SUPERIOR OAT SEED ESSENTIAL

Good, Plump Variety Will Germi* nate Rapidly and Get Vigorous Start—Best Land Needed. (By W. M. KELLY.) There is more light and inferior oat seed plpanted than any other causes a of small grain. Poor seed causes a low yield of oats every time. The actual cost of improved seed is very low compared with the increased yields that come from its use. By good seed I do not mean extremely high-priced seed that is advertised to produce 100 bushels of oats to the acre but good plump seed that will germinate rapidly and get a vigorous start early in the spring. We seldom see a large crop of oats threshed from a field that makes a poor start in the spring. I have found that it pays big returns to select one acre of the best land to grow seed oats on each year and to keep this crop for seed only and to buy new seed every two or three years to plant on this acre plot. Under ordinary conditions I believe that we should change oat seed every three or four years, for there is no farm crop that will thrive better when moved from one locality to another than oats, or that will deteriorate faster when, grown on the same farm year after year. Of course proper seed selection ■will help to overcome this tendency, but few farmers take that precaution. Closely linked with the good seed question comes that of selecting or planting healthy seed, and I have found it a good plan to treat all oat seed with formalin before sowing, to kill the smut spores and insure healthy seed.

DIFFICULTY IN GROWING MELONS

Lea./ Bllsht Xs Moat Commoa ol Canteloupe Troubles— May be Checked by Sprayin*. When blight attacks the cantaloupe then the hopes of the grower wilts, as well as the leaves of his plant—it is usually a hard case to cure. \ Leaf blight is the most common of cantaloupe troubles. The leaves become covered with light, to dark brown, generally circular spots, which Increase in size and finally coalesce, .resulting in complete wilting and curling of the leaves. The sixits commonly show fine and rather indistinct concentric markings such as are found in the common alternarla blight of the potatbl The leaf stalks and vines are so affected. The blight is caused by a fungus which may at least be checked by spraying with bordeaux. The first application should be made when the vines are from 12 to 18 Inches long and then every two weeks during the season. The bordeaux mixture should be of the usual strength—six pounds of bluestone and six pounds of lime to 50 gallons of water. The greatest care should be taken to get down on the under side of the leaves with the spray. Use a hand pump on small plots with a fine spray. doe * not them nothing

NOTES from MEADOWBROOK FARM

By Willam Pitt

Groom your cows. The silo is a time saver. Attend to the horse’s feet Grow strawberries for home use. Let the young calves have plenty of sunlight. We cannot longer raise paying apple, crops unless we spray. Seed grain of all kinds is scarce and high priced again this spring. The cleanly dairyman keep the dirt out of the milk rather than strains it out. Whale oil soap may be used to destroy Tice, scale,. insects and mealybugs. Clover and grass seed always do best when they can be started to early growth. Profitable beef production in the future means that better gains must be made. In a gallon of 30 per cent, cream there are two and one-half pounds of butter fat. When butter refuses to “gather” the cream may be too sour or the temperature too low. Lack of thorough cleansing of the separator is one cause of flavor in. butter being off.

It is a good plan to give a cow a bucket of scalded bran as the first feed after calving. !■■ - j The shoe should fit the foot. Don’t , let the blacksmith cut bars or frogs ■ to make the horse’s foot fit the shoe. Field mice been at the young trees? , If the bark is knawed to the wood the ; trees may be saved by bridge graft- , ing. ; Satisfactory results were obtained J last year at the Kansas Agricultural : college from the use of Kaffir as silage. Potash, as a constituent of fertilizers, exists in a number of forms, but chiefly as chloride or muriate and as sulphate. After starting to shed their hair in spring cows are very sensitive to sudden cold snaps. That is when stabling pays at night. Clover and grass seed may be grown and a good stand secured, on oat ground during the last of April and the first of May. Narrow doors in the sheep barns are a mighty poor thing. Broken down hips and early dropped lambs are some of the results. A colt wants to be kept eating and growing and exercising, and anything but fattening, as long as he has a time assigned him by nature to grow. Any kind of fruit tree will die when planted in ground that is all the time saturated with water. The tile ditch is a necessity In some places. Early peas may be followed by celery or cabbage or potatoes, followed by late beans or corn, thereby getting several crops from the same ground each year. A horse must have feet and legs beside weight to be any good at heavy work. Flat bone in the cannons and large, round feet should be looked for in picking horses. • ■ Just now Is the time to get the start of the lice and a good first move Is to thoroughly clean out the hen house then squirt some kerosene around pretty lively over the walls, roosts, and nest boxes. Young mares will sometimes refuse to allow their foals to nurse at first. The mare may be tied in the stall and the colt helped to milk; As soon as It has sucked each teat the mother will usually allow It to continue. A good liniment for all kinds of swellings on dairy cows, as well as on all other farm animals Is made, by mixing equal parts of turpentine, sweet oil and spirits of camphor. Apply liberally and frequently to the swollen parts. If your stable floor is of plank and in need of repairing, the laying of a thin coat of cement over the old and then putting a new layer of planks on It will serve to make the floor watertight and at the same time, to pre- • rent dry rot