288 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



As to the feed. I use com, br.-in :ind shorts mixed witli water. I salt 

 two or three times a week, feed charcoal and ashes and a little stove 

 coal occasionally. 1 keep increasing the feed iintil I am feeding them 

 all I think they can stand, and then hold them at that. I tiud that you 

 must study each hog separately and feed them according to what in your 

 judgment you think is best for them. I did not feed any sugar or oatmeal 

 or any food of that kind. I gave them plenty of water three times a day. 

 Tempered them by keeping them in dry so as to insure them against loss 

 by shipping. If exercise Avas needed 1 gave it to them. They had some 

 gi-ass and at the finish some green corn. I fed the same amount of shorts 

 in bulk as I fed bran. Never fed any milk. Never soaked any feed, al- 

 ways mixed fresh, making a good, tliick slop, fed all they would clean 

 up each meal, never fed but twice a day. morning and evening. I found 

 that some liogs preferred corn, others slop. I always gave them what 

 they seemed to like the best after they laad eaten tlie other feed. 



Question — "How should 1 care for young pigsV" 



I>inc I.ukens: 'I'his is a sulijcct whit'h I know can he presented to 

 much better advantage by any of the breeders present than I can do it. 

 In fact, 1 never was a success as a developer of pigs. I have lots of 

 neighbors in my section w^lro can skin me on raising pigs — do it easily 

 and all the time. I have always had better success when I put my sows 

 out among tliese good neighbors and lind it much the easiest wa"y of fit- 

 ting my young pigs. As to my individual method, I suppose I do as you 

 all do, with one exception. I always let the pigs suckle the old sow as 

 long as she will let tliem. I think she furnishes richer food than I can 

 mix, and the longer the pigs have it, the better for them. Regarding fur- 

 ther treatment. I havi' separate lots and my pigs cannot mix. This 1 lind 

 of some advantage. 



Question — '•IIow do you prevent scoiu's in pigsV" 



E. W. .Vvery: About scours in pigs, some breeders are terribly afraid 

 of scours. I have had trouble with scours. Imt now I am not at ;iil afraid. 

 I can cure them every time. 



\'oic(>: (Jive us the remedy. 



Mr. Avery: Soda and sulphur, one-half teaspoonful of each to the 

 sow, three doses in twenty-four hours. That will knock it every time. 



<,)uestion — "Are we breeding the I*oland-( "hina hog too small? If so. 

 can we remedy the evilV" 



\V. M. McKadden: This is a subject which 1 do not feel that I am 

 ai)!e to do justice to. esjx'cialiy before a gatlu'ring representing a largo 

 majority of the leading breeders of I'oiand-Cliinas in Indiana. I will say 



