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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 7, 
CLEANLINESS IN HOG FEEDING. 
The hog responds as readily to cleanli¬ 
ness and care as any other animal on the 
farm. Not long since I was greatly im¬ 
pressed with the lack of sanitary conditions 
around the hogyards and houses of a man 
who has been growing hogs more or less 
successfully for a period of 10 years. 
His feeding troughs were foul with de¬ 
cayed food, and floors were damp and 
ill-smelling, and the yards were wet and 
full of mud holes that good drainage 
would have prevented. All fixtures in a 
hoghouse should be movable. It is ad¬ 
vantageous to have the troughs where 
they may be washed out or scalded twice 
a week at least. It is well to bear in 
mind that foul troughs are good breeding 
places for parasites that may be taken 
into the stomach of the hog and cause 
sickness or death. Damp floors can be 
overcome if the house is well aired, and 
with windows enough to let the sunshine 
in nii the floors. Sunshine is our great¬ 
est and cheapest disinfectant, and during 
cold weather its use should be more gen- 
just so much of it to keep the animals 
in good condition, just as it requires so 
much feed, although the hog may drink 
much more in the Summer simply to keep 
the body temperature down. Then why 
should not the water be weighed out to 
the hogs just the same as their feed? In 
Winter it is simply a question of getting 
the hogs to drink enough water and this 
is best accomplished by feeding it in a 
slop. The amount of water required will 
of course depend on the size and age of 
the hogs. Prof. Wm. Dietrich says this 
amount runs from 12 pounds per day for 
each 100 pounds of live weight at two 
months old down to about seven pounds 
at six months and four pounds at eight 
months. Weighing the water may sound 
like a lot of extra work to some read¬ 
ers of The It. N.-Y., but when it is re¬ 
membered that a gallon of water weighs 
approximately eight pounds it is very 
easy to take a couple of buckets and dip 
out the- proper amount from the tank 
where the heater is. This should be 
mixed with other feeds to form a rather 
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At feeding time care should be taken 
that no swill is slopped into the bedding 
or on the. floors. It is also injurious to 
the health of the hogs to allow dust to ac¬ 
cumulate on the partitions and in feeding 
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thin slop. In getting the solid feed the 
hogs will at the. same time get the proper 
quantity of water. The bulk of the feed 
should-he given dry after this is cleaned 
up. 1 find that the best way of feeding 
the slop is to have swinging doors above 
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ing places is a matter of extreme import¬ 
ance. If any are in the habit of feeding 
their hogs corn scattered in the mud or 
dust of a dry yard they should by all 
means build a feeding floor and use it. 
Go into any herd that is fed in the dust 
from thrown-down corn, and much wheez¬ 
ing and coughing will be heard. This 
is injurious to all hogs and especially 
those kept for breeding purposes. I have 
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During the Winter my hogs are fed a 
good deal of Alfalfa and clover hay, and 
on this feeding floor is an ideal place to 
feed it. I cut the Alfalfa into four-inch 
lengths and soak it a few minutes in a 
tank of hot water. This does not boil the 
Alfalfa, but just heats it enough to make 
coarse stems tender and tender ones more 
toothsome. The hay is lifted from the 
tank on a fork, and allowed to drain 
well when it is thrown upon the feeding 
floor. Pigs never leave much of it, and 
for breeding animals it makes an excel¬ 
lent feed. 
Watering hogs in Winter is a more im¬ 
portant matter than is generally realized. 
Everyone realizes that the physiological 
functions of an animal require water just 
as certainly in cold weather as in warm. 
But a hog will drink very little water in 
zero weather if it has to go out in the 
cold, stick its snout into an icy hath, 
and fill its stomach with something which 
will give it the shivers for the next 30 
minutes. It will not drink until it really 
has to, and as a consequence does not 
partake of sufficient water to keep its sys¬ 
tem in proper condition. We should con¬ 
sider water more as a food. It is just 
as necessary as solid food, and it requires 
the troughs. I shut the hogs away from 
the troughs, place the dry feed along in 
them pour the water in on top of this 
and then let the hogs in to the troughs. 
This saves mixing the slop by hand and 
the hogs mix it thoroughly in about half 
a minute. By this arrangement there is 
no spilling of the slop while putting it 
into the troughs because of the hogs 
bumping around. Since the animals are 
waiting for the gates to be let down they 
will all have an equal chance and line up 
in a row and eat like well behaved hogs 
should. 
Hogs are generally looked upon as be¬ 
ing natural scavengers who should be fed 
(•n little else than garbage and filth. 
Vegetables and fruit parings and refuse 
food from the table is good for the hog 
if he is allowed to consume it while fresh 
but after it stands a while it becomes full 
of disease germs and is then injurious 
to the health of the animal* In some 
eases cholera and other swine diseases 
have been known to be developed because 
of the hogs being compelled or permitted 
to partake of improper food and drink. 
As the hog furnishes so large a part of 
the human food it is of the greatest im¬ 
portance that his health be kept good, 
lings roaming at large always supply 
themselves with pure food and water, and 
do not suffer from disease as do those 
which are confined and heavily fed. They 
get plenty of exercise, and are therefore 
in good health, and their meat is always 
sweet and wholesome. They feed on nuts, 
fruits and roots dug out of the ground. 
In his wild state the hog showed himself 
to be somewhat of a doctor. If he killed 
and ate poisonous snakes he knew what 
plant to eat to overcome the effects of 
the poison. The early settlers of the 
AS est used to notice that hogs would peel 
the red or slippery elm tree and eat the 
bark, those having recourse to this treat¬ 
ment never becoming affected with 
cholera. Cleanliness in the feeding and 
management of swine is a very important 
factor in obtaining best results in this 
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