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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
February 5, 
CONDIMENTS FOR HOGS. 
The picture, Fig. 52, shows a bunch 
of fattening hogs on the farm of Chas. 
Evans, Highland Co., Ohio, getting an 
appetizer in the form of common salt. 
It is quite common to furnish hogs 
wood ashes, charcoal, salt and other 
things of a like nature as it is thought 
such things keep the animals in good 
health. The experiment stations are 
making a study of this matter, and 
some interesting facts about the need of 
mineral elements in animal diet are 
given in bulletins 201 and 207 of the 
Ohio Experiment Station. Both of 
these bulletins are well worth reading 
by anybody, and especially so by stock 
feeders. It was shown bv one of the 
so good for such swine as was the case 
this time. Everybody seemed to go into 
the hog business. 
I like to sell the shotes when about 
three months old, as up to this time 
they require very little feed. Now as 
to feed. After weaning I give them 
skim-milk and wheat middlings and Al¬ 
falfa hay as soon as they will eat it. 
The brood sows get Alfalfa hay always 
when not in the field, and corn with a 
little rye chop or wheat middlings. 
Two years ago this Winter I fed only 
Alfalfa hay, corn and cooked potatoes 
(unmarketable ones), as I had a few 
hundred bushels. I raised 3,000 bushels, 
as this is my specialty besides hog rais¬ 
ing. I must also mention how 1 cook 
the potatoes, of you might think it to 
be very tiresome work. 1 purchased a 
stove four feet long, two feet high and 
two feet wide for two large iron kettles, 
SALTING THE HOGS AHEAD OF THE BARREL. 
experiments cited that it was possible 
to kill animals quicker by removing the 
mineral matter from their food than 
to deprive them of all food. In ex¬ 
periments with hogs the use of chalk, 
bone Hour, calcium phosphates and other 
calcium salts gave good results. Wheat 
bran, clover and grasses supply much 
mineral matter in addition to the much 
needed protein, so these foods are rela¬ 
tively more important than corn, ex¬ 
cept during the final finishing period, 
when mostly fat is wanted. The hogs 
shown in the picture were getting, in 
addition to the corn, a slop made up of 
ground feed containing much bran, and 
they were doing finely. Hogs are 
bringing long prices these days, net¬ 
ting the farmers $8 to $8.to per hun¬ 
dred, and they certainly deserve good 
care and the best we have in the way of 
feed. The markets seem steady, there 
is no haste in marketing hogs, and there 
have been no bad breaks in the price as 
yet. w. E. D. 
Hillsboro, Ohio. 
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Three years ago I purchased a woven 
wire hog fence and fenced about 10 
acres for hogs. It consists of six wood¬ 
land and four acres of Alfalfa. In this 
woodland is a spring of never-failing 
water. The trees arc mostly chestnut 
sprouts lately grafted to Paragon chest¬ 
nuts. The Alfalfa 1 have divided into 
two fields so as always to have a fresh 
field. In this 10-acre piece I had 10 
breeding sows and one boar from June 
to October, and gave them nothing ex¬ 
cept a few. ears of corn once a day, 
and some apples late in the Summer. 
This, I think, is ideal for hogs. They 
get exercise and certainly seem to en¬ 
joy themselves. Of course, I had some 
sort of a shed put up in the woods for 
them to go in during cold rains, etc. 
I keep only common Chester White. 
Every few years I get a purebred boar 
to get fresh blood. I raise two litters 
a year, one coming in April and the 
other in the Fall. I never fattened 
many hogs, as I usually have a good 
market for shotes. Three years ago I 
made more money with hogs than ever 
before. I kept all my sow pigs from 
Spring litters and bred them so as to 
get young when about a year old, and 
sold them on public sale on March 22, 
when they sold from $4 to $25 apiece. 
I had a few old ones which sold 
for from $3.50 to $37 apiece. I had 
also some smaller shotes which sold 
at $10 to $14. I kept one young 
boar to put on sale which realized me 
$14.50. Of course, this was a lucky 
season. The demand is not every year 
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and this stove I have in the hoghouse 
and cooked two kettlefuls daily; four- 
foot wood goes in the stove and T filled 
the stove in the morning and lighted it, 
and that was the last of it until uoon, 
when we fed them. This stove also 
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