Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 34, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 May 1918 — Page 2

SELF-FEEDER IS BEST FOB SHE

Animals Can Select Their Own Rations Better Than Feeder.

RIGHT FOR FATTENING PIGS

Comparative Tests Show. Advantages of Allowing Hogs to Help Themselves to Various Feeds to Make Rapid Growth.

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.)

A self-feeder is simply a device by means of which a supply of grain or other feed is kept constantly available to the hogs, in order that they may always satisfy the craving of their appetites with respect to the kind and amount of feed. The quickest, the easiest, and most economical method of fattening pigs, with the least expenditure of grain and labor, is through the use of the self-feeder.

Hogs are good judge? of what they ought to eat. They can select their own rations better than their feeder. Tf permitted to do so they will eat the right proportions of a number of feeds necessary to make rapid gains, and, strange to say, they will make these gains cheaper than if the ration is carefully measured out and fed to them by a hog raiser. Numerous tests in which the self-feeder ,and hand-feed methods of fattening hogs have been compared show that the marked success of the self-feeding system is largely due to the fact that the hogs will eat an abundance of those feeds which will nourish them to the best advantage. Tests on Government Farm. The United States department of agriculture conducted two tests with the self-feeder at the experiment farm at Beltsville, Maryland, and the results obtained from these tests show why Nlf-feeders for fattening hogs are gaining in popularity. In one test 18 grade Berkshire pigs were put on a 70-day feeding period and the relative fattening efficiency of a ration of cornmeal, middlings, and tankage fed with the self-feeder and by the hand method, was compared. The pigs were kept in a dry lot, the hand-fed lot being fed thref times a day, the amount being governed by the appetite (That is, all the feed was given them that they would eat up clean) while the self-fed

Young Pigs Helping Themselves. pigs had free access at all times to the three feeds placed in separate compartments of the self-feeder. The hand-fed pigs were given a ration consisting of 5 pounds of cornmeal, 4 pounds of middlings, and 1 pound of tankage. They ate a total of 2,694.5 pounds of feed and gained 675 pounds, making an average daily gain of 1.4 pounds. It required 410.1 pounds of grain to produce 100 pounds of gain In this lot. The self-fed pigs consumed their feed in the following proportion : 19 pounds of cornmeal, 2.S3 pounds of middlings and 1 pound of tankage. They consumed a total of 4.13S pounds of feed and gained 1.01S pounds, making an average daily gain of 1.G2 pounds. In this lot it required 40(5.4 pounds of grain to produce 100 pounds of gain. Self-fed pigs made much more niptd gains by consuming a larger daily ration in proportion to llse wolght than did the hand-fed pigs, but this rapid gain did not require any more feed in proportion to the gains in live weight. In fact thu self-fed pigs required a little los food to gain 100 pounds in weight. Shelled Corn Vs. Cornmeal. In thi other test 10 grade Berkshire pigs were used. The object of the tost was to compare the value of common! with that of shelled com for use In the o!f-f coder. The plgi woru divided equally, and both lots had access to tanUagu In a separate solf-feodor. The pigs averaged about IK) pounds In weight. To completo the comparison another lot, (lot three) whh fed by huud method. This lot

had the run of an excellent rye pasture and was fed all they would consume of a balanced ration of cornmeal, middlings and tankage. Lot one, self-fed on cornmeal and tankage, made an average daily gain of 1.61 pounds, or slightly more rapid gains than lot two, which was fed by the self-feed plan on shelled corn and tankage, and made daily gain of 1.53 pounds. Both these lots made more rapid gains than the pigs in lot three, which were hand fed on cornmeal, middlings and tankage. Lot one, however, required 31 pounds more grain than lot two to produce 100 pounds of gain. The most expensive gains were made on lot three (the hand-fed lot), where 3G9.1 pounds of mixed feeds were required to produce 100 pounds of gain. The gains were very profitable in all lots but shelled corn and tankage self-fed produced the best results. These tests are borne out by results obtained at a number of state experiment stations. In all nearly 600 pigs have been used in tests at these stations, and the results show clearly that more rapid gair are obtained with the self-feeder than by the best handfeeding methods, partly owing to the larger daily consumption of feed per head, 8 pounds compared to 5.47 pounds, and partly owing to the more efficient use of grain feed. These tests show that the average daily gain per head by the hand-fed method was 1.23 pounds, and by the self-fed method 1.92 pounds. The average amount of feed per 100 pounds of gain was 445 pounds by the hand-fed method, and 417 pounds by the self-fed methods.

HOW TO AVOID TUBERCULOSIS

Disease Renders More Pork Unfit for Human Food Than Any Other Trouble Except Cholera.

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) With the exception of hog cholera, tuberculosis renders more pork unfit for human food than any other disease. In 1916, under federal inspection, which represents only 60 per cent of hogs slaughtered in the United States, there were found infected with tuberculosis 594,108 hogs, which were condemned in part or in whole, nearly as many as were raised in the entire state of New York for that year. Aside from the monetary loss sustained from tuberculosis, the fact that it is transmissible to the human makes it doubly important that strict measures for its eradication be inaugurated. Hogs contract tuberculosis chiefly from dairy cows, which are also very subject to tuberculosis. The disease in a cow infects her milk system, her lungs, and her throat with tubercle bacilli the germs which cause tuberculosis in men and animals. Some of these germs escape from the cow in her milk or in her droppings, or she may cough them out on feed or bedding. Hogs get the disease from the raw milk or droppings, or feed infected by a tuberculous cow. Pasteurized or cooked milk will not pass the disease from infected cows to other animals. Therefore, to protect hogs from tuberculosis and to make sure that the feed will be turned into meat instead of into fertilizer 1. See that all milk, especially all skim milk from the creamery is pasteurized or cooked before it is fed to the hogs. 2. Keep the hogs from following dairy cattle, unless the cattle are tuberculin tested. Keep them out of cow lots and barns, and keep dairy drainago out of hog lots. Hogs can follow steers without much danger. 3. Give healthy hogs a chance to keep healthy. Give them clean, welldrained lots and plenty of fresh air, sunlight, and clean water. .Shelter them in well-lighted and ventilated, sanitary hog houses. Keep the houses clean and use plenty of whitewash a id disinfectants. If there was tuberculosis in your wine last year, it is safest to get rid of the herd, especially the breeding nnimals, and raise clean hogs from fresh stock.

PROTEIN ESSENTIAL TO' SOW

Strength and Vigor at Farrowing Time Necessary for Young Animals to Do Their Best.

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Every hog grower knows that if he is going to have pigs that will do their best from the starts they must necessarily be strong and vigorous at farrowing time. Proper care of the brood sow usually Insures such pigs, and one essential included in this proper care is feeding the brood sow a ration containing a good percentage of protein. Protein feeds in the form of shorts, tankage, oil meal, or alfalfa hay should be supplied. Self-feeders can be used for these feeds, and It is quite successful to grind the alfalfa hay. Sows will eat a larger percentage of alfalfa hay fed In the ground form than when fed in racks unground. This alfalfa is generally cheaper on the corn-belt farms than any of the other proteiu feeds and is a good balance to the corn ration.

PLUMS THRIVE IN HENYARD

Protection for Roots Must Be Provided by Laying Stones Around Bottom of Trcco. Plums com to do particularly well In the poultry yard. In setting them out, howovor, provide protection to the roots by laying stones around the trooa or the fowls will moon dastroy thorn.

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High Winds Make Trouble for Gotham Pedestrians NEW YORK. The problem of how to conduct oneself, or where to conduct oneself, or where to be conducted in an S0-mile gale faced virtually every one who had the temerity to shut an apartment bouse door behind himself or herself on the way to business one

morning recently. All sorts of persons took the storm in all sorts of manners, but in the main New York regarded the draught rather seriously and went in whatever direction or at whatever velocity the breeze suggested. One young woman who refused to give her name, address or any inkling of what she thought of the day was blown all the way across City Hall pi'rk from Broadway. She 'continued

to run at the rate of about 20 miles an hour until she managed to get hold of an "L" pillar in Park Row. She swung around it three times and her hat was blown high in the air and hung suspended from the "L" structure. For three tortuous moments the young woman strove to keep a hold on the pillar and keep her tailor-made suit where a tailor-made suit should remain, after which she went running again and was carried straight through the swinging doors of a modest saloon on the east side of the street. There her hat was delivered to her and a policeman led her to the subway kiosk. Samuel Vichie, a twelve-year-old schoolboy living at S3 Oliver street, never knew his strength until that time. He was standing at the corner of Lafayette and Duane streets when the gale swept into his reefer and rompers and lifted him quite free of the earth. He flew across the street and landed asrainst a team of stalwart horses. Both horses fell down, and a moment later, to the boy's utter astonishment, the truck rolled oven after them. The boy suffered slightly from shock and greatly from ego. At nine o'clock a human chain formed at the corner of One Hundred "and Forty-fifth street and Broadway and for more than half an' hour a steady stream of persons made their way to the subway by the expedient of getting a place in the line and holding onto the hand of the person before them.

On the Sams Plan Youth Might Have Started Harem JERSEY CITY. No matter how patriotic one may be, it does not pay to have more than one wife, James Hanlon, an eighteen-year-old sailor, learned when he was arraigned before Magistrate Grossman on a charge of bigamy. Hanlon enlisted when this

country entered the war. Clad in his uniform he made a big impression On the girls in his neighborhood. October 15 he married Miss Elizabeth Connolly of 26 Erie street, Jersey City. The ceremony, Hanlon told Assistant District Attorney McCrystal, to whom he surrendered when he heard a warrant had been issued for his arrest, was performed in Jersey City by Rev. William T. McLaughlin of St. Mary's Ro-

man Catholic church. January 7, Hanlon admitted, he shipped again, with Miss Emma Bolk of 503 East Eightythird street, Manhattan. Wife No. 1 learned of the second Mrs. Hanlon and got a warrant for Hanlon's arrest. "How did you expect to take care of two wives on your salary?" Mr. McCrystal asked him. "Oh, I'd live with them both," was the naive reply. "They are not very big and I guess I could keep them from pulling each other's hair if they tried to start anything." , Hanlon told Mr. McCrystal Emma Bolk knew when she was married to him that he had married Elizabeth Connolly. The second wife denied this. She said she had seen Hanlon and Miss Connolly come out of the church October 15, but thought they were coming from confession. She admitted the couple were followed by a crowd that threw old shoes andrice at them. "I thought it was a joke," she explained, "and I joined in the fun." Magistrate Grossman sent Hanlon to the Tombs in default of $1,500 bail for examination.

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Elopement Plans Ended by Stern Policewoman CHICAGO. A crap game and a policewoman ended what had been planned as a happy elopement for "Yak" Williams and his erstwhile "future," Margaret Cordith. It all happened in a West side theater. "Yak," a veteran newsboy at Madison and Halsted

streets, had talked things over with v Margaret, and the stage was set for (AW ) the elopement. "Yak" counted his V J

day's earnings $2.50 but still not enough to get married on: An alley crap game profited him to the tune of $37.50. With the money rucked away in a secret pocket, hG rushed to break the glad tidings to Margaret. Margaret agreed to pack up at

once, but said if they left before nightfall her mother would become suspicious. So they agreed to take the midnight train for Milwaukee. In the meantime "Yak's" luck took another turn, and this time the bones failed him to the extent of the entire forty. "Yak" came back to Margaret crestfallen. Margaret was determined not to let their future happiness be halted by a mere few dollars, and from a girl friend she borrowed all $3.G0. The happy couple decided to take in a "movie" before the train left. Margaret was restless and "Yak" was nervous. Their actions, coupled with their possession of the two overpacked suitcases, aroused the suspicions of a policewoman in the theater. Despite protests, they were marched to the Desplaines street station. Mrs. O'Brien, Margaret's mother, was sent for. With a daggerlike glance at? her "almost" son-in-law she rushed to her daughter's side. She persuaded Margaret to return home. "Yak" is still selling papers on the corner, and is confident that he'll win his bride yet.

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Youth Merely Victim of Overvaluing Ambition MILWAUKEE. Anton Tuczynsk' is employed as an attendant at Muirdale. He took a trip to Windlake and Hayes avenues. A call was received by the police to send the patrol wagon to that section. "When we got there this fellow

told me that a man had tried to hold up a girl, but that he got away," said Patrolman Zarek. The patrol wagon was sent back with a much-disgusted crew. "About ten o'clock I came across the defendant after he had told a small boy that he was Probation Officer Kelley, aud that he was In that neighborhood to break up the gang known ns tho 'Bloody Sixty-Four" said Zarek.

"What wns the matter with you?" asked Judgo Page, when tho nccuHed was arraigned In his court. "Well, your honor, I have an application In to be appointed a probation olllcor, and I thought that If I went down In that section and cleaned up a good case It would help my future," said Tuezynskl. "Then you thought that a Utile practice would make you perfect for the position which you desired," said Judge Page. "I think he Is a Utile gone in tho upper story," Intorposod Patrolman Va role. By order of .Tudgt? Page, Doctor Hupp examined tho defendant, and his deeiajon was n follow: "Tho boy Is sane, but ho has a bug on being appointed probatton oHlcer, and I wi vised him that unless ho mondod his ways hp would not bo an employee of the county Uöt n pnllwi of !Doctor Youa." , H wus Ünod $5. ,

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Before Reading This Just What Is the Difference Between an Elephant and a Microbe.

"Tve got one for you this morning," said the thin boarder, tucking his paper napkin under his chin, as he approached his meatless-wheatless breakfast "What's the difference between an elephant and a microbe?" "Shoot it!" said the soldier on furlough. "Shoot yourself," replied the thin one. "A ton and a half," suggested the coal clerk with a rose in his buttonhole. "Won't do," came from the conundrum propounder. "One's found in his lair and the other in the air," ventured the lady schoolteacher. "Guess again," was Skinny's dare. "One comes to you -vvhen you want it, and the other comes to you when you don't," said the bank clerk. "Awful " was the emaciated one's rejoinder. "Well, dope it out," came from the tired group. "One carries a trunk and the other the grip." Yonkers Statesman.

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