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Questions About Pigs 
Answered By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration for Breeding Hogs 
Will you please advise as to a good feed 
for a nine-months-old Duroc-Jersey boar; 
also a feed for a bunch of young gilts just 
bred? B. N. K. 
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I would suggest the following ration 
for a nine-months-old Duroc-Jersey boar, 
assuming that he has been well grown 
and developed and that he now weighs in 
the neighborhood of 275 pounds. It is 
also understood that be is to be grown 
and developed and used for breeding pur¬ 
poses, rather than for exhibition at fairs, 
and that it is the wish of the owner to 
continue bis services as a breeding ani¬ 
mal as long as be is generally useful. 
The grain mixture would be as follows: 
50’pounds ground oats, 50 shelled corn or 
cornmeal, 10 wheat bran, 10 oilmeal, o 
digester tankage. If be is up to the de¬ 
sired size and weight, be will require be¬ 
tween four and six pounds of this grain 
ration daily. I would insist that he have 
access to Alfalfa or clover bay, and 
would limit bis grain ration to such a 
quantity as would enable him to maintain 
bis vigor and growth, but would not under 
any circumstances permit him to put on a 
wealth of flesh. If be is active and can 
take an abundance of exercise be will be¬ 
come hardy aud strong and an effective 
breeder. During the mating season it 
would be necessary to increase bis ration, 
and I would add about 50 per cent more 
oats to bis mixture. Close confinement in 
small, filthy yards, accompanied by ex¬ 
cessive feeding of fat-making foods are 
responsible for a great many discourage¬ 
ments that are encountered with inactive 
and irresponsible breeding males. 
Assuming that the gilts are about nine 
months old, and that they have been bred 
to farrow in March and April, I would 
feed them the following ration: 100 
pounds shelled corn or corn on the cob, 
100 hominy, 100 ground oats, 50 white 
middlings, 25 digester tankage. Here 
again I would accustom the gilts to eating 
some roughage, preferably clover bay oi 
Alfalfa bay, and would feed them ,iust 
enough of this grain mixture to provide a 
gain of one pound per day. It is my be¬ 
lief that after a brood sow is safely settled 
she should increase regularly in weight 
and that she should gain about 125 pounds 
during her gestation period. If I bad an 
abundance of ear corn and oats on the 
farm, I would not use any millfeeds what¬ 
ever, and I would not grind the corn, but 
rather feed it on the ear. I would grind 
up the oats and soak them for four or 
five hours before feeding and feed them 
this chop three or four times a week. I 
would see to it that the brood sows are 
fi‘d regularly some digester tankage and 
would regulate the amount to about five 
per cent of the amount of corn consumed. 
Give them a dry place to sleep, and insist 
that, they be fed some distance from their 
sleeping quarters, which will insure abun¬ 
dant exercise. In addition to the giaiu 
ration I would see that they were sup¬ 
plied with a mineral mixture consisting 
of bard coal ashes, salt and bone meal. 
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it should likewise be cooked with the 
beans, but there is nothing to gain by 
cooking the oats. The addition of 10 per¬ 
cent of digester tankage would increase 
the usefulness of this mixture, particu¬ 
larly to young pigs, and there would be 
an advantage in letting them have a few 
ears of corn to nibble at each day, in addi¬ 
tion to the moistened mass. It would be 
well not to cook any more beans than 
would be fed in a couple of days. 
2. To eliminate lice on pigs, use crude 
oil. For small pigs, fill a barrel about 
two-thirds full of warm water, to which 
has been added about three per cent of 
some coal tar disinfectant. Coat the sur¬ 
face with crude oil about one-half inch 
thick, take the pig by his front legs, im¬ 
merse it to the eyes, holding it there a 
full minute. When they are taken out 
they will be coated with oil. The lice 
will be smothered, and if the pigs are 
placed into a pen where there is an abun¬ 
dance of dry bedding, the treatment will 
not be harmful. 
As to worms, in many instances lack of 
vigor and vitality is due to intestinal 
parasites. When such a condition pre¬ 
vails, the pig evidences an exaggerated 
appetite and doesn’t grow or gain weight. 
The hair is dry, coarse and ruffled, the 
eyes lack luster aud brightness, and the 
animal shows discomfort and irritation. 
The treatment consists of withholding 
food for 24 hours, dividing the herd into 
groups of 20 animals and mixing the fol¬ 
lowing worm powder thoroughly with the 
moist food, making sure that each hog 
gets its share of the medicine in the feed 
at the close of the starvation period: 
Saniton, 8 grains; areca nut, 2 drams; 
calomel, 1 grain: sodium bicarbonate, 1 
dram. This amount is sufficient for one 
hog weighing 100 lbs. The dosage should 
he increased or decreased according to 
the size of the pig. By multiplying this 
dosage by the number of pigs that it is 
desired to treat, a sufficient quantity may 
be secured from the drug store to treat 
the entire herd. Care should be exer¬ 
cised not to use too much food, as it di¬ 
lutes the medicine. This treatment may 
be repeated in three weeks if the worms 
are not all removed by the first adminis¬ 
tration. Perhaps the old-time remedy 
of utilizing turpentine as vermifuge can 
he used in case simpler treatments fail. 
The amount is a teaspoonful of turpen¬ 
tine diluted with a half pint of of milk, 
this being sufficient for a pig weighing 50 
lbs. Food should be denied the pigs for 
24 or even 36 hours previous to the ad¬ 
ministration of this unsavory material in 
order that they will consume the desired 
amount of the material. Parasites must 
be eliminated at any cost, for a pig can¬ 
not make satisfactory gains if he is an¬ 
noyed by the activities of such pests. 
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Beans for Pigs; Lice and Worms 
1 I have 18 pigs three months old that 
are comfortably housed in a dry, roomy 
pen. For feeding I have plenty of oats 
and barley, and a stock of low-grade white 
beans that are good and clean. L have a 
large cooker that is easily managed, and 
at the present time am boiling the beans, 
which I am feeding as thick slop, and 
feeding the oats and barley (ground line) 
dry. Will you give me your opinion as to 
the proper handling of these rations. _. 
What treatment should be given for lice; 
also for worms in pigs ot this age, if they 
should become infested? J. F. w. 
Wyoming, N. Y. • 
1. Low-grade white beans, when prop¬ 
erly salted and boiled, make a useful feed 
for young pigs. Unless they ai’e salted 
they are not palatable, as there appears 
to be a toxic property about them that is 
not relished by the pig. On a dry basis, 
a mixture of 100 lbs. white beans, -00 
lbs. barley, 100 lbs. oats, would be very 
attractive, it being understood that the 
beans are to be cooked and the ground 
oats and ground barley added to the 
cooked mass. If the barley is not ground 
Rye for Breeding Hogs 
My neighbors toll me I should not feed 
ground rye to breeding hogs. Is this a 
fact? . 
Pennsylvania. 
There is one objection to feeding ground 
rye to brood sows. Often when rye is 
thrashed direct from the shock, or in case 
it is thrashed from stacks where it has not 
gone through tin' sweat it may heat in 
the bin and develop ergot, which is likely 
to cause abortion when fed to breeding 
animals. Rye is not specially palatable or 
specially nutritious when fed alone. If it 
is mixed with cornmeal or hominy meal, 
or even with ground oats, it is safe to 
use in feeding or fattening market hogs. 
I would not feed it to brood sows at all. 
In any event, it should not constitute 
more than 20 per cent of the ration for 
such animals. On the other hand, it the 
rye is bright and clean and free from 
any evidence of mold or bin heat, it 
might be safely used in moderate amounts. 
I would suggest that your brood sows be 
supplied with a generous amount of clover 
hay, and this, when supplemented with 
ear corn, will satisfy them and make it. 
possible to obtain normal development ot 
the unborn pigs. Rye alone is low in pro¬ 
tein. is not easily digested, and at best 
should not be included in any ration for 
breeding animals, especially toward the 
end of their gestation period. Use the 
rye for feeding your market or fat nogs. 
Molasses increases the pnlnFbility ot mix¬ 
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