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;a moderate degree, furnish these nutrients in abundance. A pasture of 

 •clover, alfalfa, etc., balances corn to a great extent. 



Feeding the Pig While Suckling the Dam. — When the pigs are two 

 or three weeks old they will begin to use feed other than the sow's milk. 

 They will begin nibbling at grass and tasting the sow's food until they 

 are soon eating a large enough quantity .of food to justify the making 

 of a creep for them where they can be fed a little extra and the sow kept 

 away from this feed. The entire list of answers as to the kind of feed 

 ■and manner of feeding of the different correspondents, is given : 



"Give mill feed in slop and a little corn." 



"Feed wheat middlings, skim milk and a little corn. Give middlings in slop made 

 'by mixing them in skim milk or warm water." 



"Feed corn and shorts and skim milk in form of s'will." 



"Feed a fresh slop of skim milk and shorts. If I haven't milk I iise linseed 

 ■oil cake." 



"Feed shipstuff and milk, mixed from one feed to the next." 



"Let them begin eating with the sow. Feed dry oats and a slop of shorts and 

 -skim milk." 



"Feed corn alone. I shell it for them at first." 



"Feed table slop mixed with bran, oats and shorts, and let them have a little 

 -corn. Always feed the slop first, as sour slop makes them have 'pot-bellies.' " 



"Feed corn and slop in a pen as soon as' they will eat away from sow." 



"Corn and a slop of chopped wheat and corn." 



"Crushed corn and a slop of bran and water." 



"Milk." 



"Feed corn and milk. Give plenty of clover range, and see that they take lots of 

 -exercise. Don't cook feed or let anything sour." 



"Feed a slop of shorts and skim milk." 



"Feed a slop of corn chop and bran. Don't let it stand over six hours." 



"Feed shorts' and corn." 



"Feed a slop of milk, shorts and water and either linseed oilmeal or stock food, 

 -and feed fresh." 



"Feed shelled corn on pasture and a slop of shipstuff, oilmeal and bran or tankage 

 in small amounts. Sometimes let the oilmeal soak twelve hours." 



"Feed all the corn and skim milk they will eat on wheat or rye pasture. Soak 

 the corn twelve hours'." 



"Let them eat with the sow." 



"Feed milk and a slop of shipstuff, fed sweet with corn and wheat, if the latter 

 is not worth more than 75 cents to 80 cents per bushel." 



"Feed a slop of shipstuff and cooked corn and a little dry corn." 



"Ground com and oats with a little oil meal is fine. Keep corn in a pen with 

 ■a creep for pigs." 



"Feed soaked corn and a slop made by mixing shipstuff, oilmeal and milk 

 together." 



"Mix two parts shipstuff and one part bran with water to make a thick slopu 

 Have a creep where they can be given extra feed both morning and night." 



"Feed a slop of shipstuff." 



"Feed corn and tankage. Give corn in ear as soon as they can crack it." 



"Feed ground wheat and oats and soaked corn." 



"Have a separate pen and feed plenty of corn and pasture." 



"Feed a slop of shipstuff and tankage fed at once. Also, feed wheat, kitchen slop 

 and all the sweet milk I have." 



"Feed shelled com and a slop of skim milk, shorts and tankage." 



"Feed shelled corn and a heavy mash of equal parts shipstuff and bran and one- 

 fourth as much meat meal." 



