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THE RURAL NEW-YOHKER 
April 6, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SWINE RAISING AS A BUSINESS. 
Part V. 
The Pig’s Care. —Should the weatner 
be pleasant the pigs should get out of 
doors in the sun before they are two 
days old. Should it be cool weather, 
put cut straw on the sunny side of the 
building. It may be necessary in cold 
weather to keep the pigs in the house 
till they are over a week old. In such 
cases, go into the house and drive the 
little fellows around several times a 
day. After they once learn what the 
door is for, one will see them running 
as hard as they can on the coldest days 
from one end of the lot to the other 
and back into the house. A hog is half 
made when past the weaning period, 
without a stunt or a kink in its growth. 
Every check or halt in its prosperity 
through its first two months is more 
expensive than at any later period. Too 
much rich, feverish milk of the dam, 
causing thumps or other ailment, may 
leave harmful results, perhaps as much 
so as scant feeding or other neglect of 
the sow. More injury may be done to a 
pig’s growth in two or three days than 
can be repaired in a month, even if he 
is made the subject of special care, 
A PORTABLE HOG HOUSE. 
which where many are raised, is not the 
rule, nor easily practical. “Good luck” 
with pigs calls for attention, and that 
not occasional, but frequent and regu¬ 
a little, skim-milk in it, when the pigs 
show signs of inquisitiveness about their 
mother’s trough. Under this fence the 
pigs will learn to run for their meals, 
and cannot be disturbed by the old hog. 
If you have no skim-milk, blood flour is 
good when added to white or brown 
middlings. Feed blood flour to young or 
unthrifty pigs at the rate of one tea¬ 
spoonful per day and upwards, depend¬ 
ing on size and age. This plan of feed¬ 
ing will make weaning a very easy mat¬ 
ter. Take one pig away at a time. In 
case it is a large litter, two pigs may 
be taken away each day until four re¬ 
main, and then take only one away each 
day. Following their weaning the pro¬ 
per policy is to feed the pigs for 
growth rather than fat. Yet if at the 
age of eight weeks they are not plump 
and sleek it is pretty strong evidence 
that some of the conditions have been 
unfavorable. They should be thrifty, 
have plenty of sunlight and exercise, 
which are useful preventives of thumps 
and scours. 
Dry, Warm Quarters. —It should not 
be forgotten that for swine, as for all 
other stock, warmth is to a certain ex¬ 
tent equivalent to food, for which rea¬ 
son comfortable surroundings have a 
money value, the protected animals not 
only requiring less food, but growing 
faster than their less favored relatives. 
A dry, warm sleeping place means some¬ 
thing more than much bedding. If too 
much bedding is provided the natural 
tendency is to allow it to remain longer 
in use than a smaller quantity would 
be, and it becomes damp and filthy. A 
moderate quantity of bedding, changed 
so that the bed is always dry and de¬ 
cently clean, is far better than a large 
quantity. Damp beds and pens are not 
only a tax upon the vitality of the pigs, 
but on the feed bin, and afford the con¬ 
ditions under which disease germs mul¬ 
tiply. The preventive is abundant sun¬ 
shine. One writer has said that swine 
breeders spend enough money for dis¬ 
infectant and cholera cures to pay the 
interest on the national debt, and likely 
the men who are spending the most for 
loud-smelling disinfectants are the ones 
who fail to appreciate nature’s best gift 
to man, sunshine. It is a source of life 
to vegetable and animal. Sunshine cheers 
and warms. It is essential to life and 
health. It has a wonderful power to 
destroy germs. I do not mean to say 
that disinfectants are of no value. They 
are.; they kill lice and remove scurf. 
Disinfectants can be forced into cracks 
to kill lice, something sunshine will 
not do. R. L. FAUX. 
lar. Further, it means that when the 
rain pours down at night and high 
winds are up, sometimes you will have 
to get out and dig ditches to keep water 
out of the houses. This is especially 
true when the buildings stand on a side 
hill. But after all the side hill is best. 
Weaning the Pigs. —From the first 
week after farrowing until weaning 
time the sow will be little else than a 
milk machine, and to be a high-power 
machine in perfect operation she must 
have proper care. Pigs that have plenty 
of other feed with the milk of a well- 
fed sow for eight weeks will ordinarily 
have much the start of those weaned at 
five or six weeks, no matter how much 
food and attention the earlier weaned 
pigs may have had. At eight or nine 
weeks old most pigs are, or rather 
should be, fit to take away from the 
sow; some litters are individually older 
at seven weeks than others at 10, and 
better fitted for weaning. Sometimes it 
is necessary to wean when five or six 
weeks old, and in other cases it may be 
advisable to wait until the pigs are 10 
weeks or even older. Breeders who 
wean at early ages generally do so in 
order to raise more profitably two litters 
a year. However, the pigs can be 
weaned at eight weeks old and two lit¬ 
ters raised every year. Provided with 
and taught to eat suitable feed some 
weeks beforehand pigs are not so no- 
ticably checked in their growth by 
weaning, but those who have been de¬ 
pendent mainly upon the mother’s milk, 
when abruptly taken from it, frequently 
seem to have their growth partially sus¬ 
pended for weeks. It has been our plan 
to nail boards across the corner of the 
sow’s lot, just high enough so the little 
fellows can run under it. Or at a con¬ 
venient place along the front of the lot 
set a post five feet from the fence and 
equally distant from two posts already set 
on the front line. To these posts nail 
boards eight to 10 inches from the 
ground. This will make a triangle, with 
the original fence as its base. Place a 
small trough in this triangular lot with 
Absolutely sanitary 
conditions in the dairy 
mean money saved and 
made. 
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CALF ME/ 
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SCHUMACHER CALF MEAL 
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THE QUAKER OATS. COMPANY 
Chicago 
New York Experiment 
Station Bulletin 
No. 304 
"SCHUMACHER CALF 
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Massachusetts Experi¬ 
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Professor J. B. Lindsay, in 
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North Carolina Experi¬ 
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TONICS 
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