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January 23, 
THE KUR.A.L, NEW-YORKEti. 
PIG FEEDING QUESTIONS. 
Digester Tankage for Sow. 
OU often advise digester tankage and 
bone meal for pigs. I cannot find 
either of these in Dayton, except at 
the fertilizer plant, and you have advised 
against feeding that intended for fertil¬ 
izer. Where can either of the above 
be obtained? What is each worth? My 
sow needs something like that I think. 
She has a litter of eight pigs three weeks 
old and her breath is terribly foul. She 
craves something, for she follows chick¬ 
ens and eats their droppings, and also 
eats her own. G. P. 
Dayton, O. 
Steamed bone meal that is used in 
small quantities as a source of mineral 
matter for swine is the same product 
that is used as a source of nitrogen and 
phosphorus in fertilizer mixture. It 
ranges in price at from $26 to $30 per 
ton, and a few hundred pounds would 
last indefinitely on a swine farm. Di¬ 
gester tankage is the refuse product re¬ 
sulting from the slaughtering of animals 
at the large packing houses, and consists 
of blood and other waste products 
incident to the killing of animals. 
This material is collected and digested 
under pressure for various lengths 
of time, the moisture driven off, and 
the material ground and bagged and 
sold as a source of protein, and is very 
well adapted for swine feeding. The high 
grade product contains as much as 60% 
protein, and in addition to supplying pro¬ 
tein at low cost gives the animals a brisk 
appetite, and has been known to stop the 
rooting habit of pigs that have been fed 
exclusively on corn while on grass. The 
lone meal can be obtained from any fer¬ 
tilizer concern at approximately $1.50 
per hundred pounds, and the digester 
tankage can be obtained from either your 
local feed dealer or by addressing the 
nearest distributing office of the large 
packing concerns. F. c. M. 
$4 to $7 a pair, and are inclined to be¬ 
lieve that there is more profit in this sort 
of a transaction than there is in growing 
the animals to maturity. I doubt very 
much if this is true; it would seem to me 
at least, that the animals can be market¬ 
ed to the best advantage and at the great¬ 
est profit when they will weigh from 250 
to 300 pounds live weight, in which case 
it is possible to use the pigs as a me¬ 
dium for converting farm products into 
cash. On the other hand, if one has a 
special market for roasting pigs and can 
get at least $5 apiece for his pigs when 
they are eight weeks old, he might have 
a clear profit, but certainly not as much 
net profit as would result in case he kept 
the animals until they were six or eight 
months old and would weigh as much as 
300 pounds. It is generally admitted 
that the small flock of poultry on the 
farm is an actual and real source of 
profit; on the other hand a very small 
percentage of the large poultry plants 
where several thousand birds are main¬ 
tained show the same proportionate pro¬ 
fit. A farmer might keep one or two 
brood sows and sell off the young pigs 
in his neighborhood at a clear profit when 
the pigs are eight weeks old, but I doubt 
very much if this suggested line of en¬ 
deavor would pay on a large scale. Very 
few sections of the country have an ex¬ 
tensive market for young pigs, while on 
the other hand it is possible to market 
any number of animals for pork, provid¬ 
ed the carcasses are of satisfactory 
weight and ripeness. F. c. M. 
Cholera. 
HAD a hog six months old that re¬ 
fused to eat one morning and before 
night he began to get purple around 
bis head. The next day he was worse 
and began to get weak in his hind legs 
and got purple all along his stomach and 
hind parts, would not get up unless I 
made him. He died that night. 
New York. a. h. w. 
Early Maturing Pigs; Fattening Ration. 
W HAT breed of pi^s is best for rais¬ 
ing young pigs five to six months 
old for market? What breed grows 
largest and on the average gives the best 
profit for investment? 2. I have 14 
young pigs four months old. average 55 
to 65 pounds, that I would like to put on 
the market in January. Can you suggest 
a good ration? Also quantity to be fed 
per 100 pounds? A. S. 
New York. 
1. It is quite generally admitted that 
the breeds of swine known as Yorkshires 
and Tamworth are most prolific, that is 
they produce the largest litters. How¬ 
ever, these are both bacon breeds and not 
The symptoms indicate hog cholera, 
and if you have other pigs you should 
have them vaccinated with serum by a 
graduate veterinarian. Meanwhile change 
the hogs onto clean ground and feed light 
laxative rations. a. s. a. 
Milk Check and Grain Check. 
Y OUR editorial on the farmer’s milk 
check and feed bill, on page 1398, 
leads me to suggest that if the far¬ 
mer fed his cow good pure hay or even 
corn stalks, no doubt he would have less 
to worry about and at the same time 
cause our so-called millers to go out and 
knock their heads on good earth. 
Fredonia, N. Y. E. H. 
ns well adapted to conditions where corn 
is the chief crop and where milk is not 
available for swine feeding. Profits in 
pork production do not depend upon the 
breed selected. Choosing of prolific ani¬ 
mals in any one of the recognized breeds 
is of more importance. There are good 
and bad individuals in all the recognized 
breeds. Results of experiments planned 
to determine the efficiency of animals rep¬ 
resenting the various breeds differ as 
much within the breed as they do when 
a number of breeds are compared. This 
goes to show that breed selection is of 
minor importance. 
2. The following mixture is suggested 
as a ration for pigs four months old 
weighing 65 pounds: Ear corn, 100 
pounds; middlings or shorts, 40 pounds; 
digester tankage, 10 pounds. The latter 
two products can be mixed and fed in i 
the form of a thin slop, and the corn i 
should be fed in such quantities as the 
animals will clean up with relish. At 
this age, provided they are thrifty and 
well grown, they will consume about four 
pounds of the feed per head per day, or 
on the basis of approximately five pounds 
of feed for each hundred pounds live 
weight. They should not be fed, how¬ 
ever, to their full capacity i ntil after 
they weigh 125 pounds, but rather kept 
growing along on we will say 2% pounds 
of the feed each per day. After they 
weigh 100 pounds middlings should be 
reduced and the animals can be appropri¬ 
ately fattened on ear corn and tankage, 
or equal parts of ear corn and rye, with 
10% digester tankage added. 
It is assumed, of course, that A. S. 
wishes to market such animals ' \ carcass 
form when they are dressing from 160 
to 175 pounds. In certain sections of 
New Jersey, notably in Burlington Coun¬ 
ty, there is a very brisk demand for 
young pigs at weaning time, and as a 
matter of fact a great many farmers are 
selling their animals at this age at from 
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