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:i:\ X IK S AGRICULTURE. 



Feed for 

 Young Pigs. 



Feed for 

 Finishing. 



Salt and Ashes. 



In order to keep young pigs growing alter being 

 weaned, they should be given a certain quantity of 

 skim milk, along with other feed, which at first should 

 be composed largely of middlings with a little ground 

 flax-seed. When about three months old, add bran, 

 pulped roots, and green clover or rape, and a little 

 ground grain, peas, barley and oats, mixed. In 

 winter, alfalfa clover should be cut and scalded for 

 them. Mix the whole together, and feed a limited 

 quantity morning, noon and evening. When the 

 pigs are live or six months old increase the grain, 

 and feed less of the bulky food. 



For the last six weeks, in finishing, the morning 

 and evening rations may be largely of chopped 

 grain, including corn. Do not give more than they 

 will consume in one hour. At noon feed sugar-beets 

 or mangel- wurzels raw, without grain. This system 

 of feeding keeps the pigs in a healthy and growing 

 condition, and makes a juicy quality of flesh. 



During the winter, when housed, hogs require 

 old sods, also salt and hardwood ashes, with proper 

 care and feeding. Xo animal on the farm will give 

 quicker returns than the hog. Neither will any yield 

 larger profits, provided too many are not kept and 

 skill is used in the feeding. The best returns are 

 obtained where hogs are used to turn to account 

 the by-product of the dairy, the gleanings of the 

 field, and products which would otherwise be 

 wasted. The free use of alfalfa, either in winter or 

 summer, will also greatly add to the profits which 

 may be made. 



To get the best results from a brood sow she 

 should receive kind treatment, so that she will be 

 gentle and kind. This has a very good influence 

 on her offspring. With proper care the sow will 

 raise two litters per year, say March or April and 



