54 CONKEY'S STOCK BOOK 



MINERALS Whatever the ration, we must keep in mind the fact that 

 NEEDED the hog is a rooter, and that a prime necessity to his body 



is the mineral substance he gets in rooting. When rooting 

 is interfered with, his daily ration must include the mineral correctives so 

 essential to his big body. Don't let the hogs on your place tear down 

 the crumbling masonry for the sake of the brick and mortar. Give them 

 ashes, charcoal, air-slacked lime, bone-meal and ground rock phosphorous. 

 Pigs also need some salt, not much but at least one ounce a day. Salt 

 should never be put in their feed; but a salt mixture should be before them 

 all the time, so that they can help themselves. Salt is not only an appe- 

 tizer, but it wards off digestive troubles that might easily result in 

 :serious disorders. Try a mixture of Conkey's Veterinary Salt, made up 

 according to directions, using common salt from your own salt barrel 

 .and mixing with every nine pounds a pound of Conkey's Stock Tonic 

 This will give you a general conditioner, safe to use all the year round, 

 without danger of injuring the hogs but practically insuring against 

 worms, and many forms of intestinal disease. The cost would be less than 

 2^c a pound, and the medical, appetizing, tonic effects of the mixture 

 would be greater than any commercial medicated salt now on the market. 

 Less than 2 l / 2 c. a pound! You can judge for yourself the saving. 



FOR THE Give her a plentiful ration, as there are heavy demands 



BROOD SOW on her. She should have cooling and laxative foods, 

 hence not much corn. For a few days before farrowing, 

 do not feed anything, but give the sow plenty of agreeable warm water. 

 After this, feed mainly thin slop of oats, shorts and bran, but no corn. 

 'Clover and alfalfa cut or ground and mixed with the slop will be relished. 

 .After the third day the critical period is over, and the sow can be brought 

 igradually back to a full substantial ration all she will be able to digest. 

 Do not give her any sour milk or sour slop. A good milk making ration is 

 wheat bran, shorts and skim-milk, good for the old sow and good for the 

 pigs to experiment with in preparation for weaning. 



Don't forget occasional tonic treatment with Conkey's Stock Tonic 

 to keep digestion perfect and all functions normal. 



FOR THE BOAR For a good young 50 Ib. herd boar to make the 

 largest possible growth, and not injure breeding qual- 

 ities, one authority recommends the following ration: corn and bran, 

 mixed half and half by weight; or, one-third corn, one-third bran and one- 

 third oats. If it is necessary to raise the corn to two-thirds, use one-third 

 bran and add a little oil meal. Corn tends to fatten and must not be 

 overfed the herd boar, or it will fill up the organs. The herd boar is 

 always benefited by Conkey's Stock Tonic treatment. The herd boar 

 in particular needs to get every ounce of benefit from the digestible 

 nutrients in his ration. The root ingredients in Stock Tonic tone and 

 invigorate the system, and fit it for all drains upon it. It acts directly on 

 the walls of the blood vessels, increasing their contractile power, which 

 means better circulation. Of all animals the herd boar needs good, pure 

 blood, and that perfect condition which is the foundation of breeding 

 profits. Conkey's Stock Tonic is the short, scientific cut to vigorous 

 breeding condition. 



t. 



SPECIMEN RATIONS For fattening and finishing for market here 

 FOR FATTENING are two good specimen rations well liked in 



the corn belt: 



