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of one pound of pork, per pig treated, and the cost should not keep any 

 one from getting the formulas that serves them best. 



Equal parts of sulphur, charcoal, glaubers salts and copperas, if 

 kept continuously before hogs has a tendency to keep them free from 

 worms. The Iowa experiment station recommends that they be kept in 

 separate feeders and the hogs be allowed to take of the ones they need 

 most, since more charcoal is craved with certain rations than with others 

 and more sulphur in others. Then again, I imagine individual pigs 

 differ. 



STOCK POWDERS AND TONICS 



Experiment stations have not obtained results from feeding of stock 

 powders and tonics to hogs. I have met farmers who were very en- 

 thusiastic about a certain hog powder or tonic and credit the firms guar- 

 antee for much, but in a few years, I notice they are not feeding any 

 powders at all or have changed the brand. My opinion is if the pigs are 

 wormy, they should receive one of the above worm formulaj's and as to 

 the tonic, it is not needed for its food value or to aid the pigs digestive 

 organs to assimilate more food and the work it does to increase food 

 digestion is absolutely an unknown quantity to the purchaser. 



However, if such a tonic must be had, you can usually purchase it 

 from your local druggist unless he is a stock food booster for about one 

 third to one half what stock powder companies sell them for. Follow- 

 ing I give a common one and equal to others. Commonly known as the 

 government formulae. 



Charcoal, 3 pounds 

 Sulphur, 3 pounds 

 Salt, (sodium chloride) 3 pounds 

 Black antimony, 3 pounds 

 Baking soda, 6 pounds 

 Hypo sulphate of soda, 6 pounds 

 Sodium sulphate, (glaubers salts,) 6 pounds 

 , Mix the above well and give 1 tablespoonful once daily in the 

 plop for each 200 pounds live weight. 



Another one is as follows, and more like the commercial stock foods. 

 Fenugreek, 8 pounds 



