Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — Fattening Animals. [ARTICLE]

Fattening Animals.

A very common error among farmers, which needs correction, is the opinion that animals may be fattened in a few weeks, and fitted for market, by heavy feeding, or, as It is termed, by pushing. Many farmers do not think of beginning to fatten their hogs or cattle for early winter market until autumn has actually commenced. Their food is then suddenly changed, and they are dosed with large quantities of grain or meal. This sudden change often deranges the system, and it is frequently some time before they recover from if. From observation and inquiry we find that the most successful managers adopt a very different course. They feed moderately, with great regularity, and for a longer period. The most successful pork-raiser that we have met with commences the fattening of his swine for the winter market early in the preceding spring. In fact, he keeps his young swine in a good growing condition all through the winter. He begins moderately, and increases the amount gradually, never placing before the animal more than it will- freely eat. With this treatment, and strict attention to the comfort and cleanliness of the animal, his spring pigß at ten months usually exceed &#) pounds, and have sometraes gone as hlgjh as 460 pounds; and pigs Win-

ton’d over reach a weight of 500 or 600. The corn, which is ground or scalded be. fora feeding, nets him, on an average, not less than one dollar per bushel when the market price for pork is .five cento per pound. -Christian Union. —Zellao Wendomutli, one year and three montlis old, in Dorchester, Mass., died the other day from the effects of eating fly paper. The little one suffered about ten hours.