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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 15, 1915 
They Must Be 
The cows with the big production records 
are first of all healthy cows. Perfect health 
is more responsive for their scores than breed¬ 
ing or any other single factor. 
It is a fact that more than 80 % of the poor milkers 
in almost any dairy can show remarkable gains in 
milk production by the most simple home treatment 
and observation. 
Such common and dreaded ailments as Abortion, Bar¬ 
renness, Retained Afterbirth, Scouring, Lost Appetite, 
Bunches and such other complaints as arise from low vital¬ 
ity of the digestive and genital organs are readily elim¬ 
inated by simple home treatment and judicious use of 
KOW-KURE. Almost all diseases can be reached by this 
wonderful medicine. The cow can then thrive on Nature’s 
food and increased milk flow is inevitable. 
You can add hundreds of dollars to your milk 
income by spending a few dollars yearly for 
KOW-KURE. Send for our valuable free 
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gives directions for the use of Kow- 
Kure in each disease—also con¬ 
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owner. 
Bay KOW-KURE from 
feed dealers or druggists; 
60c. and $1.20 packages. 
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Questions About Pigs 
Answered By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
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Dry Lot Pig Feeding 
1. I would like some information as to 
drv lot and pasture feeding of pigs at 
different initial weights, say between 40 
and 75 lbs. fed to 200 or 225 lbs. A 
bunch of pigs averaging 40 11)6. were fed 
for 118 days, selling weight 275 lbs. 
Each pig ate about 0411 lbs. of feed, 
averaging for the period barley 12 parts, 
shorts one part, tankage one part. Is 
band feeding or self-feeder more desir¬ 
able? 2. Can you give me data on fat¬ 
tening steers, about 000 lbs. weight, for 
100 to 120-day feeding period. Beef 
grades, ration, amount and kinds coucen- 
, trates and roughage, shed fed. w. K. 
I Washington. 
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1. Interesting data comes forward each 
year as a result of feeding experiments 
centering around the comparision of feed¬ 
ing pigs in a dry lot and feeding them 
some concentrates supplementing forage 
crops. Let it be stated once and for all, 
that without exception the records show 
conclusively that forage crops very ma¬ 
terially reduce the cost of gains for pigs 
weighing more than 75 lbs. It is doubt¬ 
ful whether or not the forage consumed 
by a pig weighing less than 75 lbs. 
amounts to very much from a standpoint 
of actual food nutrients, nevertheless the 
advantage lies in the fact that the pig is 
given free range in an area known to be 
clean and sanitary, which lias many ad¬ 
vantages over the dry lot system of feed¬ 
ing. Brood sows nursing pigs likewise 
are favored if they have access to forage 
crops, and it is known that pigs developed 
in this manner and later confined in dry 
yards consume a much larger percentage 
of feed iu proportion to their live weight 
than do youngsters confined in dry lots 
throughout their growing and fattening 
period. As to whether hand feeding should 
supplant the free choice system, there is 
again an honest difference of opinion. 
For Fall pigs it has been clearly demon¬ 
strated that the self-feeder idea is much 
to be desired, as it enables the producer 
to market his pig crop before the cold 
weather sets iu. In the Spring, however, 
provided one’s pigs have access to un¬ 
limited forage crops, it is believed that 
the most economical gains will result 
from limiting their ration to three pounds 
of grain per day for each 300 pounds of 
live weight. 
I should not carry any of the pigs 
above a weight of 225 lbs., for I am 
satisfied that the third 100 lbs. on the 
back of a pig costs quite as much as the 
first 200 lbs., and the tendency on the 
part of the butcher has been to pay less 
per pound for heavy hogs than they do 
for the handy weight carcass. If you 
were able to establish a gain of 175 lbs. 
in 118 days you did very well indeed, and 
here again you have demonstrated that 
barley is quite as useful in feeding pigs 
as corn, and no doubt in your section it 
is far more economical. 
2. Concerning your request for informa¬ 
tion relative to the feeding of GOO-lb. 
steers, assuming that you are desirous 
of marketing these cattle at the end of 
the feeding period of 320 days, I would 
start with a mixture of eight parts of 
barley and two parts of oil meal. At the 
outset I would give them four or five 
pounds of grain daily, gradually incieas¬ 
ing the amount one-fourth pound a day 
until they would consume as much as 10 
pounds. It will require about 30 days 
to place these cattle on full feed and gie.it 
care must be exercised in regulating the 
amount of grain in such a maner as will 
prevent any tendency toward scouiing, 
and unless the cattle have been accus¬ 
tomed to some grain through the early 
part of the Winter, it would be well to 
limit the increase to one-fourth pound 
each.second day. I would not under any 
circumstance use wheat bran in the la- 
tion, for it is not necessary and no doubt 
very expensive, and ground barley’ and 
oil meal will serve quite as well as any 
combination of these two products. 
Make generous use of your clover or 
Alfalfa hay, and it is not necessary at 
uny time to feed more than two pounds 
of oil meal daily for each 1,000 pounds 
of live weight of the steers. In other 
words, a 600-lb. steer would uot require 
more than 1 2/10 pounds of oil meal per 
day’, and if cottonseed is more economical 
than linseed meal, it is believed to have 
its advantages during the early stages of 
the feeding period, owing to the fact that 
jt is less laxative and contains a little 
higher percentage of protein. By all 
means let your market pigs follow’ the 
cattle, as they will sort out the undi¬ 
gested material and work over the bedding 
into u finer texture of manure, for as you 
know’ the corn-belt farmer relies stead¬ 
fastly upon the hogs which follow the 
cattle to yield his profits. 
• Preparing a Hog Ration 
I have corn on the cob, barley and 
wheat mixed, oats, barley and w’heat 
mixed, and about 1.200 bushels of buck¬ 
wheat which we cannot sell. The dealers 
claim there is not any demand for it. 
Why not feed it to hogs? We have 23 
head which we are feeding ground barley 
and horsemeat. and when we have no 
meat give them tankage. I can buy 100- 
lb. pigs at 15c per lb. w. n. 
King Ferry, N. Y. 
Ground buckwheat can he safely includ¬ 
ed in your ration for pigs, but should not, 
constitute more than one-third of the mix¬ 
ture. More or less indigestion has been 
reported from the excessive use of buck¬ 
wheat feed in feeding pigs, especially if 
the pigs weigh less than 100 lbs. Your 
buckwheat feed would he especially useful 
in feediug dairy cows or in wintering beef 
cattle, since it is the one feed that carries 
a higher percentage of protein and carbo¬ 
hydrates in combination than any other 
whole grain. Equal parts of corn, barley 
and buckwheat, with five per cent of di¬ 
gester tankage added, would make a very 
satisfactory feed for market pigs, while 
equal parts of oats, barley and buckwheat 
can be safely fed to your breeding herd. 
I would not under any circumstances feed 
any cottonseed meal to pigs, as it con¬ 
tains toxic properties that are very in¬ 
jurious. 
Moving Brood Sows 
Will moving a sow’, heavy with pigs, 
from one place to another, cause her to 
lose her pigs? Many people say it will. 
I have tried it twice, but know no more 
about it than before I moved any. Moved 
one about 10 miles. She had only three, 
two alive and one dead one. The other I 
moved very carefully one mile, on a stone 
boat. All her pigs came dead. That 
proves nothing, however, as I knew she 
would lose them if I did not move her, as 
I had just lost three litters and two old 
sows. Once when visiting the State Fair 
I saw a fine litter of Hampshire pigs not 
over two hours old. That sow must have 
been moved a long distance, so I conclude 
that there must be a right way to do it. 
What is the right way? Moving a hog 
sometimes makes him sick so that he 
vomits. Others are uot affected at all. 
Whv the difference? I wish to move a 
couple of sows about March 1. when they 
will be about eight weeks along, and nat¬ 
urally want to do it right. c. ’/. (i. 
Ohio, N. Y. 
Tin- moving of a sow from place to 
place during the advanced stages of ges¬ 
tation is, if carefully done, a safe proced¬ 
ure. I have experienced more difficulty 
from abortion in shipping pigs during 
their early stages than among those ap¬ 
proaching the end of the period. I am in¬ 
clined to believe that your sows have been 
fed oil some Tye feeds containing ergot, 
or have had access to other feeds that 
have heated in the bin or become moldy. 
If you want to move the sows in question, 
put them in a crate where they will be 
held firmly in place, put some straw or 
shavings in the bottom of the crate and do 
not give them an abundance of food just 
previous to starting on their journey. 
Over-feeding is responsible for vomiting. 
It is very possible that they were given 
extra feed just previous to shipping, tlmt 
they were not accustomed to. under the 
ordinary routine on the farm. It is ab¬ 
surd to conclude that the mere moving of 
pigs from place to place cannot he ac¬ 
complished, even though the sows are 
well advanced in pig. 
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