FEEDS AND FEEDING 



the winter, good clover, alfalfa, or pea hay 

 should be given. As sows carrying young are 

 liable to constipation, which leads to a feverish 

 condition at the time of parturition, great care 

 should be used to regulate the bowels by feeding 

 more bulky food, such as clover hay or, prefer- 

 ably, more wheat bran. 



When the little pigs arrive, the mother 

 should be watched carefully that she does not 

 lie on them accidentally. No food should be 

 given her until twenty- four hours after the pigs 

 are born, but plenty of lukewarm water to 

 drink. The second day a light feed made up 

 of I part ground corn, i part ground oats, 2 

 parts shorts should be given mixed with 

 skimmed milk in the proportion of 4 pounds 

 of milk to I of grain. This feed should be 

 gradually increased until by the end of ten days 

 the sow receives all the mixture she will eat, and 

 the milk should always be sweet. The follow- 

 ing grain ration taken from Bailey's " Cyclo- 

 paedia of American Agriculture," may, if de- 

 sired, be substituted for the one given above : 

 In Northern States barley 2, peas i, shorts i 

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