>J50 FEEDING OF HOGS. 



cannot be obtained without too much inconvenience or expense. 

 Before the time comes to separate them from the sow, the little pigs 

 should be taught to eat of ner food. They will drink milk when 

 very young. Milk is the best food that can be given to young pigs 

 in addition to the sow's milk; but, if this cannot be procured, then 

 oat-meal and corn-meal, mixed together in equal parts with about 

 one-fourth of the quantity of one part of oil-meal added, may be 

 fed, and all should be cooked, and not fed otherwise. Corn -meal, 

 without the intermixture of any other feed, is not desirable to be 

 given to young pigs. 



Proper Number of Feeds to be Given to Young 

 Pigs Whatever the food may be, it should be given in liquid 

 form, and in order to continue the course pursued by nature, which 

 teaches the young animal to suck its dam several times during the 

 day, the feed should be given the young pigs from four to six 

 times during the day for several weeks, the number of feeds being 

 gradually reduced, so as not to interfere with the growth of the 

 animal, until the number which is to make the constant habit of its 

 life, three times a day, shall have been reached. Young pigs will 

 be better when >they can have a run on fresh, tender grass. 



Importance of Pasture Feeding for Hogs This is a 

 very important subject to which too little attention js commonly 

 given. The hog producer should understand that summer pasture 

 is just as essential to the health and development of the hog as for 

 any other animal. Even in the best corn-producing districts, there 

 is no factor so great in the production of pork as summer pasture 

 and green feed. It is not too much o say that only farmers who 

 have pasture and grass lands well watered should undertake to raise 

 swine in any large quantity. Freedom of pasture, which affords 

 other animals the exercise which is indispensable to the develop- 

 ment of their systems and the preservation of their health, is just as 

 desirable for the same reasons for hogs, and the rich grasses which 

 are so fruitful in supplying bone and muscles, also keep the system 

 in perfect order, and offset the habit which corn may produce. 

 Hogs will do well with but little grain, and in most instances with 

 none at all, from early spring till the crop of corn is ready in the 

 fall, if they are supplied with proper pasturage during the summer. 

 Of course, when the fattening season begins, other courses of feed- 

 ing are necessary. These remarks apply especially to feeding dur- 

 ing the summer. 



How Hogs are to be Fed for Profit On this subject, 

 there can be no better authority than Hon. Elmer Baldwin, whose 

 experience and success, and prominent position among breeders of 

 hogs place his opinions beyond question. He says: "The farmer 

 who proposes to make money by raising pork must have a pasture 

 for his swine during the season of grass. Without this, his balance 

 is very apt to be on the wrong side of the ledger after selling hia 

 crops. 



