SWINE 



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for the various sizes, ages and classes of hogs are suggested in a ready 

 reference table presented herewith: 



The Swine to be Fed. 



I. Growing and Fattening for Market. 



1. Suckling pigs (a creep) 5-40 pounds 



2. Weanling pigs, 30-100 pounds 



3. Shoats, 100-175 pounds 



4. Hogs, 175-250 pounds 



5. Fat Hogs, 250-350 pounds 



II. Fattening Sows for Market. 



1. Yearlings (gilts) after we.aning. 



A. In poor condition, run-down . . . 



B. In good condition, thrifty 



2. Two years or older. 



A. In poor condition, run-down . . . 



B. In good condition, thrifty 



III. Stags, Fattening. 



A. Young 



B. Old 



IV. Carrying Sows, Breeding. 



1. Breeding swine, flushing. 



A. Gilts. 



B. Yearlings and older 



2. During pregnancy. 



A. Gilts 



B. Yearlings and older , 



V. Suckling Sows. 



A. With large litters 



B. With small litters , 



Pounds of Tankage* (60 per cent Protein) to be 



Fed along with every 100 Pounds of Corn to 



Swine of Various Classes in 



Dry Lot. 



25 



25-18 



18-10 



10-4 



4-1 



11-8 

 9-5 



6-4 

 2-0 



9-4 

 5-0 



14 

 11 



14-10 

 10-6 



25-18 

 20-8 



Low-Protein 

 Pasture, t 



25 



23-16 



16-9 



9-4 



4-1 



11-8 

 8-5 



6-4 

 2-0 



9-4 

 5-0 



14 

 11 



10-7 

 6-4 



25-18 

 20-8 



High-Protein 

 Pasture. % 



20-12 



12-5 



5-2 



2-2 







5-0 

 



4-0 

 



10 



0-5 

 0-4 



10 

 3-5 



* If corn is not available, it may be substituted pound for pound in these proportions with barley, 

 wheat, rye, sorghum seed, Kaffir corn, milo maize, or feterita, or a combination of any of these. If 60 

 per cent protein tankage is not available, linseed oil meal or soy bean meal may be substituted, 2 to 2\ 

 times as much being used. For example, the suggested dry lot ration for growing and fattening shoats 

 is "corn 100, tankage 18 to 10;" now substitute oil meal 2 times as much and we have corn 100, linseed 

 oil meal 36 to 20. To substitute wheat middlings, allow 17 times as much, skim or buttermilk 20 times, 

 and blood meal 60 per cent as much, or almost two-fifths less. Blood meal runs about 85 per cent protein 

 and but little is required, but blood meal is not so good a supplement as tankage, everything considered. 



^Low-Protein Pastures. — Dry, hard, fibrous blue grass; sorghum; feterita; millet; Sudan grass; 

 milo maize; timothy when over four inches high; rye or wheat over eight inches; or oats and barley 

 over five inches, or beginning a couple of weeks before beginning to joint; and sweet clover of second 

 year's growth after two feet high. 



t High-Protein Pastures. — Alfalfa; rape, Dwarf Essex; medium red, mammoth, alsike, and white 

 and other clovers; young, tender, sweet clover, first year's growth; quite early, tender, new coming 

 timothy, rye or wheat; short, "shooting," tender, green, succulent blue grass, cowpeas; and soy beans. 



