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THE RURAb NETW-YORKlSBi 
February 17, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SWINE RAISING AS A BUSINESS. 
Part II. 
In Part I. I discussed selection when 
visiting herds away from one’s home to 
. buy future breeding stock. I said that 
when weaning the litter, the animals to 
be retained for breeders should be 
chosen. They should be put in a pen 
with -a yard for themselves. The sows 
would better have no boar pigs running 
with them. As to how I should select 
these pigs, I would follow as closely as 
possible the ideals which have been set 
forth in Part I for the selection of 
older stock. This selection at weaning 
time I would call the preliminary selec¬ 
tion. I would make a culling out of 
the breeders’ pen at an age of six 
months, as there may be some which do 
not develop as was expected and are not 
up to the required standard of perfec¬ 
tion. These unfortunates place in the 
pork pen. By this method of breeding 
and selection, in a very few years a 
herd of practically culls to begin with, 
can be made into fairly good hogs. 
Feeding Young Breeding Stock.— 
Under this head we will also class 
porkers until a later age. Supply feed 
which has the nutriment to make 
growth. Wheat and oats equal parts, 
ground together, probably form the best 
combination of grains that one can get 
for the growing pigs. For very young 
pigs, the oat hulls should be removed by 
sieving. All waste removed can be fed 
to other stock, and so nothing is lost. 
As the pigs grow larger, their digestive 
tracts become more roomy, and render 
the woody matter of the oat hulls less 
objectionable. Pigs not heavily fed 
should have something in the feed to 
extend it, and to give it bulk. There¬ 
fore a reasonable quantity of oat hulls 
is not objectionable. When we have no 
skim-milk to feed we like a feed com¬ 
posed of 600 pounds of cornmeal, 400 
pounds white middlings, 300 pounds 
ground oats, and 100 pounds tankage. 
Tankage replaces the skim-milk, which, 
if we had it, we would prefer to feed. 
It has been stated that the only dif¬ 
ference between tankage and linseed 
meal was the odor. This statement 1 
read in an agricultural paper and do not 
quite agree with the writer. Oil meal 
contains in digestible nutrients as fol¬ 
lows : Protein, 28.8%; hydrocarbons, 
27.6%, and ether extract or commonly 
called fat, 7.1%. Tankage contains in 
digestible nutrients as follows: Protein, 
60%; fat, 8%, and phosphates, 6%. Oil 
meal costs $2.35 per 100, and tankage 
$2.85 per 100. Tankage, it is readily 
seen, contains more than twice as much 
protein and more fat than oil meal, be¬ 
sides 6% phosphates, principally calcium 
phosphates, which is exceedingly valu¬ 
able in building bone. As to the fer¬ 
tilizing value, 100 pounds of oil meal 
contains 5.43 pounds of nitrogen, and 
1.66 pounds of phosphoric acid, while 
100 pounds of tankage contains 9.6 
pounds of nitrogen and three pounds of 
phosphoric acid. The money value of 
the fertilizing constituents in 100 pounds 
of oil meal is $.9502 and of 100 pounds 
tankage is $1,686, or a difference of 
$.736 in favor of the tankage. go 
back to the prices we pay for the two 
feeds, oil meal $2.35 and tankage $2.85 
per 100, a difference of $.50, the differ¬ 
ence in fertilizing value $.736 in favor 
of the tankage overbalances the differ¬ 
ence in the cost of the two feeds by 
$.236. In other words, tankage is $.236 
cheaper than oil meal, to say nothing of 
the excess of protein and phosphates 
found in tankage over oil meal. I 
merely make this statement to illustrate 
the difference between the two feeds and 
with the hope that farmers will not be 
misled. Do not be afraid of the odor; 
it will not harm you at all. It is, I will 
admit, quite disagreeable while mixing 
the batch of feed, but, that once done, 
you can hardly notice the tankage odor. 
Our method has been to mix. a batch of 
feed, such as would last about two 
weeks. 
When skim-milk is available, we have 
used many rations for the growing pig. 
A ration of two parts of middlings and 
one of cornmeal or ground barley, mixed 
with skim-milk to form a slop, makes an 
excellent ration for the growing pig. As 
the pigs grow older, the portion of corn 
or barley to middlings may be increased, 
but, at no time fed exclusively,, or al¬ 
most on corn, because corn is a poor 
bone or muscle forming feed. If you 
have them, give the pigs a few roots in 
the Winter, or some good clover or Al¬ 
falfa hay steeped in hot water or over 
steam. During the Spring and Summer 
months green clover, Alfalfa and rape 
are excellent. In short, the aim should 
be to develop bone and muscle during 
the early stages of growth, and while 
the pigs should be thrifty and sleek in 
hair, they should not be fed in such a 
way as to overload them with fat. This 
is especially true of pigs intended for 
breeding purposes, and which should be 
carried right through to breeding age 
upon foods which stimulate growth and 
general vigor, rather than fat. A rea¬ 
sonable amount of fat is not objection¬ 
able, but the development of the frame, 
muscular system and the vital organs 
must not be neglected, if a satisfactory 
breeding animal is to be produced. Va¬ 
riety of feeds and plenty of exercise 
are very essential features in raising an 
animal that will possess all around de¬ 
velopment. At the age of four to five 
months we have usually got our pigs, 
gradually, on the ration of 600 pounds 
of cornmeal. 400 pounds middlings, 300 
pounds ground oats, and 100 pounds 
tankage. On this ration, in addition to 
green feed or hay and beets in the Win¬ 
ter, we carry them until breeding age. 
r. l. faux, Mgr., 
Hanover Stock Farm. 
Killing Lice on Cattle. 
In reply to E. .T. M., the most effectual 
treatment for lice on cattle is to spray the 
animals with some of the coal tar dips, dilut- j 
ing it according to directions. To thor- | 
oughly spray the animals in Winter time | 
is quite a severe operation unless they can j 
be kept in warm quarters and closely blank- j 
eted for some time afterward. A thorough 
dusting with pyrethrum powder is effective 
but it will require several applications, as 
it has no effect upon the eggs that may be 
deposited in the hair. Anointing the ani¬ 
mals with lard and kerosene on the parts 
most affected is also efficacious. The lard 
and kerosene should lie mixed in equal parts 
but tliis mixture should be applied witli 
some care or the hair will come off. This 
does no particular harm other than making 
the animals appear unsightly until the hair 
grows out again. h. h. king. 
Tiie SELF-SrcKiNG Cow.—I noticed a 
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Put an old heavy horse collar on her neck. 
I have seen cows thus broken of the habit. 
If that would not do, put another on ; that 
will certainly keep her from milking her¬ 
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Cordova. Md. 
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