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The RURAL NEW. 
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Improving Ration for Pigs 
(Continued from page 1438) 
as 90 per cent moisture, and even though 
they are cooked as you suggest, they are 
still very watery and pigs of this age re¬ 
quire concentrated feeds. Again, wheat 
middlings alone would not properly sup¬ 
plement this material. Your pigs are 
literally starved to death on a full sto¬ 
mach. I would suggest the following 
ration: 200 pounds cornmeal, 50 pounds 
wheat middlings, 20 pounds digester 
tankage. Mix these ingredients care¬ 
fully. Do not add more than three 
pounds of the pulped turnips, pumpkins 
and mangels with each pound of the 
grain. Make sure that the major por¬ 
tion of the water is drained off the 
cooked mass, for this material should be 
considered more as an appetizer than as 
a real source of food nutrients. If you 
have mature animals, especially dairy 
cows, the mangels, turnip and pumpkins 
can be used to better advantage. The 
stomach of a pig is very small and is not 
expected to take care of coarse, bulky 
foods. Ear corn will serve quite as well 
as the cornmeal, although it is not as 
easily mixed with the other materials. 
Let them have all of the corn that they 
will clean up with relish and supplement 
this matei'ial with the succulent feed, and 
the pigs will respond more generously in 
•the way of gains and profits. 
Milk-stealing Shote 
I am raising a nice shote for a’ 
brood sow, now about five months old. 
When about six weeks old she would leave 
the other pigs and run with the cows, and 
I found she was sucking them. After 
keeping her in a pen two months I turned 
her out and she went back to her old 
trick. One cow that she gets milk from 
n(>w has a calf several weeks old, but she 
still lets the pig have its share. Will you 
tell me what I can do to break her, with¬ 
out keeping her penned up all the time? 
I am very anxious to raise her, and would 
like her to go out in the pasture fields and 
barnyard. p. b. 
Virginia. 
It is practically impossible to break up 
a habit of stealing milk, often practiced 
by pigs because they frequent the barn¬ 
yard of the dairy cows. No doubt the 
habit was formed while the cow was lying 
down, and probably resulted from sipping 
up milk from a leaky udder. Clearly the 
best and only safe procedure would be to 
keep the two animals separate; else sell 
the cow or the pig. I doubt very much 
the wi.sdom of keejiing this gilt as a breed¬ 
ing matron, for she is very apt to con¬ 
tinue this habit of milk stealing, and, be¬ 
ing a pet, is very apt to prove a perpetual 
nuisance. It might be feasible to keep the 
cow confined in the stable while the pig 
was running in the yard, and then keep 
the pig confined while the cow was in the 
barnyard for exerci.se. I am .sure, how¬ 
ever, that I would part company with 
both the animals, and avoid the nuisance 
that will result by keeping them. 
December 28, 1918 
of crude oil. For pigs weighing 45 
pounds I would fill a barrel about two- 
thirds full of warm water to which has 
been added about five per cent of some 
coal tar disinfectant. Pour over the sur¬ 
face of this mixture some crude oil imtil 
it has accumulated ou the surface to a 
depth of about one-half inch. Take the 
pigs by the front legs and dip them in 
thi.s material, leaving them immei'sed to 
their eyes, for about one moment. When 
the.v are taken out they will be generously 
coated with the crude oil, and the lice 
will have disappeared. Select a warm 
day for this transaction, and place the 
pigs in a wann building where they have 
an abundance of dry straw to nestle in. 
Protect them from draught and there 
will be very little danger of pneumonia. 
It i.s not absolutely necessary that the 
pigs be immersed. They can be taken in 
hand and rubbed with a flannel cloth 
saturated in crude oil. Make sure to 
cover the surface completely in order to 
destroy all of the nits. Where pigs are 
hand-fed, it is desirable to feed them 
three times_a day, until they reach a 
weight of 75 pounds. The advantage in 
the extra feeding results from the fact 
that a pig’s stomach is very small and it 
IS possible to persuade him to eat a 
greater quantity of food if he is supplied 
with food three times a day. The feed 
should be mixed in the form of a thick 
slop rather than thinned down, as is 
usual, if the best results are to be ob¬ 
tained. 
Ration for Breeding Ewes 
Could you give me balanced ration for 
ewes raising hothouse lambs? Our rough- 
age is corn silage and clover hay. They 
are grade ewes. g. c, e. 
New York, 
A useful ration for breeding ewes main¬ 
tained for the production of hothouse 
lambs would result by taking equal parts 
of cracked corn, whole oats and wheat 
bran and adding to this combination 10 
per cent of old process linseed meal. This 
mixture is both satisfying and nutritious, 
and will result in an abundant milk flow. 
I/ambs must gain regularly in weight, 
and the most economical gains result 
where mothers are fed in such a manner 
as to stimulate the greatest flow of milk. 
As far as quantity is concerned, the owes 
may be safely fed 11/2 lbs. per day of the 
grain mixture, provided they are brought 
to this amount gradually. Thov nrobably 
will not consume more than two pounds 
of silage per day, and there would be an 
advantage in mixing the grain and silage 
m the feed trough, as they would no 
doubt clean up their mess with greater 
vigor. I would give them all the clover 
hay they will clean up with relish. This 
IS especially palatable and is clearly the 
most economical roughage obtainable. 
Feeding Young Pigs 
I have seven pigs, about 45 pounds per 
head, that I wish to feed to prepare them 
for market in May. I would like the 
best and cheapest ration made from the 
following: I have an abundance of corn, 
worth .$1.20 per bushel at present, and 
oats, 75c per bushel. I can purchase 
brown wheat middlings $2.50 per cwt.; 
oil meal, .$3..50 per cwt.; tankage, $6, 
and cottonseed, $3.25. Since cottonseed 
is a cheap source,.of protein I have been 
using it, with good results, but is it ad¬ 
visable? Would you haud-feed the pigs 
or keep it before them in sclf-feecier? 
What would you recommend to rid pigs 
of lice in Winter? When hand-feeding 
is it best to feed twice or three times a 
day, and why? o. s. 
Young pigs weighing 45 pounds wiil 
respond if suiiplied coi’nmeal, ground oats 
and digester tankage. I would not mix 
the ingredients, but rather put the feeds 
in individual hoppers iu a self-feeder. Do 
not under any circumstances feed cotton¬ 
seed meal to growing pigs, as long con¬ 
tinued use of this concentrate will result 
in a fox"m of protein poi.soii that appai'- 
ently checks growth and often results in 
death among the pigs so fed. Wheat 
middlings at $2.50 per hundred are very 
expensive, inasmuch as the middlings 
available at the present time are brown 
rather than white middlings, and in re¬ 
ality are nothing but ground bran. Oil 
meal is too laxative for using in feeding 
swine, and tankage at $0 per 100 would 
afford a more economical and far more 
desirable source of protein. Wiien the 
self-feeders are first introduced the pigs 
will eat extravagantly, but this extrava¬ 
gance will subside within four or five 
days, and they will balance their own 
ration quite as economically a.s it <*ould 
be done by hand. It is important, how¬ 
ever, that an abundance of fresh water 
or milk be supplied market pigs that are 
fed from a hopper, otherwise when very 
thirsty they will consume excessive 
amounts of tankage. After the pigs ob¬ 
tain a weight of 125 pounds the oats 
may be eliminated and the pigs finished 
on a straight ration of shelleii corn and 
cornmeal and tankage. If the corn iu 
question has not been shelled it can be 
fed on the ear, but it is difficult to ar¬ 
range a self-feeder that will supply ear 
corn with any degree of regularity. 
As far as external parasites are con¬ 
cerned, they can be eradmated by the use 
Mineral Mixture for Swine 
On page 1338 you advise feeding a 
mixture of charcoal, salt, bonemeal and 
ground limestone. Will you tell us the 
proper proportion of this mixture? 
Pennsylvania. w. d. f. 
The proper proportions for the mineral 
mixture suitable for supplying mineral 
elements to market and growing swine, 
as referred to on page 1338, will result 
from taking equal parts, by weight, of 
charcoal, salt, bonemeal and ground lime¬ 
stone. These ingredients should be mixed 
thoroughly and placed in a eelf-feeding 
hopper where the pigs can have* access to 
them at all times. Unless the hopper is 
protected from the elements it will be¬ 
come hard and unpalatable. 
Feeding Hogs 
We have two sows (Imp. O. I. C.), 
age about nine mouths. We have to buy 
all feed for them with the exception of 
garbage from the house and garden. At 
the present price of feed they are eating 
their heads off. What makes the most 
satisfactory and economical feed, and how 
much should they get? It is proposed to 
breed them. -vv. b. 
Michigan. 
A nine-months-old pig intended for 
marketing purposes should weigh approx¬ 
imately 275 lbs., provided it has been well 
grown and properly fed during the grow¬ 
ing season. A most economical ration 
for efficient feeding of specimens of this 
age would be a mixture made up as fol¬ 
lows : 100 lbs. cornmeal, 100 lbs. hom¬ 
iny meal, 100 lbs. ground barley, 25 lbs. 
digester tankage. This material should 
be fed in the form of a thick slop in such 
qinnitities as the pigs will clean up with 
relish. If you have skim-milk or butter¬ 
milk to supplement this grain ration it 
would add to its efficiency. The best re¬ 
sults will follow where not more than 5 
lbs. of milk are fed with each pound of 
grain. If it is desired to use these sows 
for breeding purposes they should be win¬ 
tered largely on ear corn and Alfalfa or 
clover hay. They should be given all the 
Alfalfa or clover hay they will clean up, 
and in addition a .sufficient amount of ear 
corn as will enable them to gain approxi¬ 
mately a pound a day. It would be folly 
to feed these sows any mill feeds, al¬ 
though ground oats are very valuable in 
any ration for brood sows. I would not 
maintain tliese animals for bi'eeding pur¬ 
poses unless they are well grown aud well 
matured; otherwise they should be dis¬ 
posed of for pork at the earliest possible 
moment. 
