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THE RUHAt NEW-YORKER 
March 22, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
WATCH THE HOG CROP. 
When the reports last Fall went out 
from the Department of Agriculture 
that the country had a record-breaking 
corn crop of course all the big dealers 
in corn for various purposes took ad¬ 
vantage of the tip and began to hammer 
down the price of corn. Then it was 
argued by the buyers of fat meat ani¬ 
mals that much corn meant much meat, 
and that in turn meant lower prices 
for them to pay the stockmen for mar¬ 
ket animals. These manipulators were 
corect in their arguments and deduc¬ 
tions, but they failed to take into ac¬ 
count the very important fact that no 
matter how abundant the crop reports 
made corn, and how it might thereby 
be lowered in price the corn could not 
be transmuted into fat steers and hogs 
if the steers and hogs were not in the 
country to eat the abundant corn and 
grow fat thereby. This has proven to 
be the case. It is especially true with 
swine, and the almost unprecedented 
prevalence and severity of hog cholera 
in the West has made great drafts in the 
stocks of feeding hogs. This unfortu¬ 
nate visitation has had its logical re¬ 
sult in advancing pork prices sharply. 
These prices will no doubt rise con¬ 
siderably more, for aside from the deci¬ 
mations of disease the stock of hogs in 
the country was not considered above 
normal. 
Men well posted in matters of hogs 
predict that these advancing prices will 
not stop till pork products reach that 
point where the consumer calls a halt 
by refusing to “pay the price.” These 
same swine prophets tell us that good 
prices for fat hogs and low prices for 
corn sends many sows to the shambles 
that under ordinary crop and market 
conditions would remain on the farms as 
breeders to mother a new crop of much- 
needed pigs. There is part of a nurs¬ 
ery rhyme that says “the pig that goes 
to market never can come back,” and 
if so many pig mothers have gone and 
are going that way obviously we must 
raise the pigs to grow to sows to farrow 
the pigs to supply the demands of the 
markets, and that other home demand 
that comes to the breeder with terrify¬ 
ing suddenness—the cholera, that seems 
so easy to avoid and control in theory 
and so difficult in fact. 
Now, in producing the new crop of 
pigs successfully too much and too 
cheap corn may be a disadvantage in the 
hands of an inexperienced feeder. Per¬ 
sonally I am such a lover of corn that 
I always advocate and practice feeding 
it to the limit for all animals, but it 
very decidedly has a narrow limit in 
the ration of the average brood sow. 
The mature brood sow having exercise 
—as she should have—can safely be 
fed four to six ears of corn a day, 
but if she is to farrow a vigorous litter 
ready to eat and grow she must have 
a more complete variety of food nutri¬ 
ents than corn alone supplies. Before 
the pigs are born the sow is growing 
them from her own body, and her body 
is maintained by and from the feed she 
eats. If the pigs unborn are to grow 
and develop normally the system of the 
sow must have an adequate supply of 
the elements of growth required for the 
pigs. The unborn pigs, and the sow 
herself, are what the sow has recovered 
and used of the substance of the feeds 
she has eaten, and of these feeds she 
must eat enough not only for her own 
bodily needs but for the present nour¬ 
ishment and development of her unborn 
young, and be strong in her bodily econ¬ 
omy supplies from which she may draw 
for the heavy demands that her pigs 
when born shall make upon her. There¬ 
fore, while corn is a feed perhaps un¬ 
surpassed in making fat, it is lacking 
in the element called protein, and lack¬ 
ing also in mineral matter, both of which 
we find very essential in growing the 
young animal both before and after 
birth. These elements are needed in 
large proportions to make flesh, blood 
and bone and muscle substances, and 
if they are lacking in the dam’s feed 
the offspring will come to visible life 
handicapped in their life race. The 
sow needs the well-balanced ration as 
much as does the cow. The sow then 
in addition to corn needs a good al¬ 
lowance of such feeds as wheat bran, 
middlings, gluten feed, tankage and oil 
meal, not some of all of these neces¬ 
sarily of course, but of some of them. 
If she can be fed skim-milk in addi¬ 
tion to her corn and has access to all 
the clover or Alfalfa hay she will eat, 
she will probably need some of these 
bought feeds, unless it should be a cou¬ 
ple of quarts of wheat bran a day, or 
a good handful of linseed oil meal, for 
about two weeks before her time of far¬ 
rowing. During these two or more 
weeks she should be fed pretty heavily 
of these protein and laxative feeds. 
In profitable swine production it is 
necessary that the pigs be both well 
bred and well born, that is, born with 
sufficient vigor that they shall begin at 
once their life work of a quick journey 
to the market hog. At least two weeks 
before farrowing the sow should be 
given a separate pen, or better, yard 
and pen, as much removed from other 
swine as possible. Her farrowing quar¬ 
ters should be clean, dry and warm. She 
will generally go through farrowing 
more successfully without than with any 
fussiness on the part of her owner, 
Pennsylvania. w. f. M. J 
What Grasses for Pasture ? 
I have a small lot of about four acres 
which joins my barnyard, through which 
is a running stream of water, and to 
which four other lots join. I always 
turn my stock from the barnyard into 
this small lot so they can enter either 
one of the adjoining lots in which I 
want them, which makes it convenient 
for tliem to get water, and they are 
always at home at night when I want 
them. Last year I was obliged to plow 
it up and had a fine crop of buckwheat 
on it. Now I wish to put it back into 
pasture lot again as soon as possible. 
Can some of the readers of The R. 
N.-Y. give me a formula of seeds for 
a permanent pasture? I find that Tim¬ 
othy and clover alone does not last long. 
The land is level, with a slight drainage 
toward the stream, rather a heavy soil, 
but rich. How much seed of different 
kinds should I use to the acre? It is 
now buckwheat stubble, and I thought 
of seeding this Spring as soon as the 
ground is in good shape. Would you 
advise plowing again or disking the top? 
Should I sow it to seed alone, or should 
I use a light seeding of oats? My stock 
is mostly sheep, with three or four cows. 
Germantown, N. Y. j. p. 
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of this pasture question. What com¬ 
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