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THE RURAT, NEW-YORKER 
July 2<T. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
FEEDING PIGS PRIOR TO WEANING. 
The problem of handling pigs so that 
they may not suffer a set-back at wean¬ 
ing time is one worthy of the most care¬ 
ful thought by the hog raiser. Pigs 
which are thrifty before this crisis in 
their lives often become lean and hun¬ 
gry looking for some time afterward, even 
though the owner may be feeding in 
abundance. Such a result is due more 
to thh feeding before weaning than to 
any feature of the care afterward. A 
careful system of feeding reduces the 
shock at weaning time to a minimum, so 
that the growth of the pig is uninter¬ 
rupted. 
The feeding of the pigs for the first 
few weeks should be primarily through 
the mother. At the first, of course, this 
is necessarily the case. It should be 
kept up for some time, however, for 
tests have shown that after pigs are able 
for it in the young pigs, as the sow’s 
milk will supplement ro a large extent 
the corn eaten at this time. Any of the 
usual proteid feeds, tankage, shorts, skim- 
milk. Soy beans, cow peas, clover or Al¬ 
falfa pasture, or others may be used. 
By the time the pigs are to be weaned, 
they should be eating grain very freely. 
As soon as they are taken from the 
sow, the nitrogenous, or proteid, part of 
the ration should be increased consider¬ 
ably. The corn allowance may well be 
increased somewhat, also. With such 
treatment the shock of weaning can 
hardly be noticed at all. There is no 
failure to eat the new type of feed; 
in fact, there is no new type of feed ; and 
there is, consequently, no check to the 
growth. Although we cannot elaborate 
on the point here, the great value of a 
clover or Alfalfa pasture for pigs at 
this age can hardly be overestimated. A 
better source of proteid feed could hardly 
be desired. The important point, then, 
in avoiding a setback at weaning time is 
OX GOOD TERMS 
to eat and utilize solid food, even then 
the same food will produce more flesh 
in the pigs if fed to the sow which they 
suckle. The sow, during 'the entire 
suckling period, should be fed a very 
generous ration, limited in amount prac¬ 
tically by nothing except her appetite. 
It should be rich in proteid and min¬ 
eral substances. Even then, if the litter 
is fairly large and the sow t is a good 
milker, the ration will probably be in¬ 
sufficient to supply the materials needed 
for the large amounts of milk elaborated, 
and she will be pulled down in flesh. 
Hog men regularly expect sows with 
pigs to lose flesh ; but there is no excuse 
for the extreme thinness of some sows 
which can often be seen with a group 
of squealing hungry pigs trailing behind. 
To give the pigs a vigorous start, then, 
it is important that the milk supply 
contributed by the sow r be liberal in 
amount; and because of this it is im¬ 
portant that the sow be fed very liberally. 
While it is highly important that the 
pig be fed through the mother during 
its early life, it is no less important that 
it learn to eat solid food during this 
time, in order that it may be prepared 
against time when the milk part of its 
ration shall be cut off. If the youngsters 
are allowed to run with the sows, they 
will soon learn to crack a few grains 
of corn at feeding time. They will also 
learn to drink a little from the trough. 
When they have advanced thus far it 
is time to supply them with a feeding 
pen. This is a pen which has an en¬ 
trance large enough to admit pigs but 
not large enough to admit the grown 
animals. In this enclosure they can eat 
without being shoved aside by the larger 
animals, and here they should receive 
most of their feed. The basis of this 
feed should be corn, just as with the 
older stock. It may be shelled at first, 
or even soaked; but after a time it 
can be fed on the ear in the dry con¬ 
dition. Some practice soaking, or shell¬ 
ing, or even grinding; but the profit from 
any of these practices is exceedingly 
questionable; and so long as such is the 
case it certainly seems wise to let con¬ 
venience dictate the course to follow. 
Along with the corn should be fed a 
certain amount of proteid supplement. 
This need not be so very generous in 
amount, just enough to develop a taste 
WITH THE FAMILY. 
to get the pigs to eating grain freely 
beforehand, and to feed them liberally 
on it after the change has been made. 
II. E. MERN. 
Waste Condensed Milk for Pigs. 
A member of an established dairy and 
creamery company has offered to send 
us a large barrel of condensed milk, 
which is a bit off, and cannot be used 
by the ice cream manufacturers. He 
says that a pig raiser near his city 
comes and buys it by the truck load to 
feed to his pigs. Is it a good thing to 
give pigs, having quite a proportion of 
sugar or its substitute in its makeup? 
If good to use, in what proportion, and 
how shall we keep it in good condition? 
The barrel is to weigh GOO pounds, and 
only costs us the freight. L. B. 
New Jersey. 
If the product referred to is what is 
known as sweetened condensed milk I 
can see no reason why the product can¬ 
not be safely used in feeding swine by 
utilizing one part of the condensed milk 
to five parts of water, and in addition 
supplementing this With a pound of 
mixed feed—preferably equal parts of 
corn and middlings with one part of 
digester tankage for each pound of the 
grain mixture used. It is very prob¬ 
able that the amount of sucrose in this 
condensed milk would keep the product 
from decomposing, and even though it 
might sour it is my judgment that it 
could still be used safely, for feeding 
pigs. The question arises, however, as 
to the advisability of feeding the pro¬ 
duct containing as much sugar to pigs. 
In some feeding tests recently conducted 
at this station we utilized equal parts of 
cornmeal and black strap molasses, and 
supplemented this with four pounds of 
skim-milk to each pound of the corn and 
molasses mixture. The black strap 
molasses contains a great deal of sugar 
and this mixture enabled animals weigh¬ 
ing about 200 pounds each to gain from 
1.8 pound to 2.4 pounds per day. In 
still another test that was conducted 
here we fed a refuse product containing 
still more sugar than is found in the 
black strap molasses, and in fact added 
some molasses to the mixture, and no 
evil results or disorders followed. It 
was amazing, however, to record the 
amount of water consumed by animals 
getting such a ration. A vital point in 
feeding pigs is that of supplying va¬ 
riety, and especially is this desirable 
when any refuse produce such as this 
material is used. It is my belief that 
no evil results will follow feeding this 
condensed milk to pigs, in case the mix¬ 
ture suggested is used, and the pigs 
gradually accustomed to eating this mix¬ 
ture. Any sudden change of feed, es¬ 
pecially if the animals are anywhere near 
on full feed, is apt to cause digestive dis¬ 
orders. It is best to make the change 
gradually and increase the mixture as 
the pigs’ appetite demands. 
F. C. HINKLER, 
Animal Husbandman. 
New Jersey Station. 
Stock on Shares. 
Regarding the plan of buying stock, 
mentioned on page 862, it has been our 
observation that arrangements such as 
the one suggested more often result in 
mutual dissatisfaction than otherwise. 
There are so many conditions bearing 
upon the care and development of live 
stock, and so many details which can¬ 
not be foreseen, that a hard and fast 
contract is often found to lack features 
which are later found essential by at 
least one party to the bargain. 
We know of one similar arrangement, 
in which the owner or the cows and the 
bull placed them under the care of a 
farmer, giving the latter full control of 
feeding problems, but specifying the gen¬ 
eral breeding policy of the herd, and re¬ 
ceiving in return the calves dropped 
from year to year, the farmer retaining 
the milk for his own profit. This scheme 
has worked with fair satisfaction for 
some years, but might be wholly imprac¬ 
ticable in another locality. 
AYER & M’KINNEY. 
The Western Guernsey Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation recently held a field meeting 
in Illinois. Mr. W. It. Goodwin, of the 
Breeders’ Gazette, spoke in the relation 
between buyer and seller. He was asked 
what he thought the purebred cattle as¬ 
sociation should do in business relation 
between breeder and purchaser. The 
Guernsey Breeders’ Journal reports his 
answer: 
He thought they should not be ex- j 
peeted to attempt to straighten out any j 
difficulties arising from such transactions 
except as related to the registry or trans¬ 
fer of such animals, but he thought it 
the duty of these associations to go the 
limit, by detective methods or otherwise, 
to establish the integrity of pedigrees. 
That is, he did not think that these as¬ 
sociations should wait for some one to 
enter formal complaint against their 
members, but that wherever they had 
reson to think that a breeder was mis¬ 
representing facts regarding even the 
registry of an animal that was not en¬ 
titled to registry that they should en¬ 
deavor to punish such breeders as are 
thus misrepresenting fact regarding the 
purity of breeding. 
Cuts Feed Bills 
Do Yon Knew That 
6 lbs of an AJAX 
FLAKES ration will 
cost net ever 9 cents 
and make 20 to 24 
lbs. of milk ? 
This may be hard to 
believe, but if you 
will write us wo 
will send you proofs 
and a free copy of 
Feeders Handbook. 
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