C54 FEEDING OF 



to the advantage of observing regularity in feeding of other anima-b, 

 applies with equal force to the feeding of hogs. They should be led 

 at stated hours, early in the morning, at noon and in the evening, 

 as much as they will eat cleanly. Whatever kind of feed is given, 

 the suggestion that they should be given as much as, and no more 

 than, they will eat cleanly, should always be observed. It is never 

 wise to give any animal more than it will consume, or more than it 

 will consume to good advantage. The main idea to be borne in 

 mind, in regulating the amount of food, is that the animal may go 

 to the next feeding with a good appetite. The perfection of the 

 hog for the purpose for which he is destined, that of producing pork, 

 will not be arrived at so much in consequence of the quantity which 

 he may eat, as of the quantity which he can receive into his stomach, 

 digest thoroughly and assimilate properly. It is desirable for the 

 feeder to keep his hog in such condition that he will always have a 

 good appetite at feeding time, and thus he will, without any delay 

 or set-back, continue fattening until he shall have arrived at the 

 condition desired, at the earliest period. If fed so as to get " off 

 his feed," even for a short time, it will be so much loss. 



How to Avoid Loss in Winter Feeding It is 

 important that hogs kept over winter should be sustained without 

 retrograding. Like other animals, a large proportion of the feed, if 

 they are not comfortably and warmly housed, will go to the main- 

 tenance of animal heat. Under any circumstances, three-fifths of 

 the feed given goes to meet the natural demands of the system, and 

 profit is only derived from that which is given over and above this 

 proportion, and if they lack the proper shelter and warmth, a large 

 proportion of the valuable material which should go to growth or 

 fattening, is utilized in the maintenance of bodily heat. Salt should 

 be given occasionally with the feed, and it is also advantageous to 

 administer sulphur from time to time. 



Hogs Fed in Connection with Fattening Cattle 

 In the West, where cattle are fed grain, it is not an uncommon 

 thing to let hogs run with them, the hogs subsisting upon the drop- 

 ping of the beeves and the feed which they waste. In some parts 

 of the country also where cattle are fed in stalls, some feeders dc 

 substantially the same, by allowing their hogs to receive what has 

 been left by the cattle in the same way. If the number of the hogs 

 set apart to consume the refuse of the beef cattle is not too great, 

 they will thrive sufficiently well. If there is a deficiency in the 

 feed supplied in this way, of course it must be made up by other 

 feeding. The experience of farmers who feed hogs in this way 

 seems to show that they thrive remarkably well ana that the grain 

 which the cattle do not grind thoroughly and which they void 

 whole, while herding in large numbers, has become softened by 

 passing through the system of the beef so that it has become thor- 

 oughly digestible, and of a character to assimilate quickly and thor- 

 oughly when taken into tne stomach of the hog. If either of these 



