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Questions About Pigs 
Answered By Prof. F. C. Minkle? 
A. M. 0. 
you have suggested 
Feeding Brood Sows 
We have no hay for our brood sows 
and would like your advice on mixing a 
balanced ration. Do you think the fol¬ 
lowing is mixed in the proper proportions, 
or can you suggest an improvement? 
800 lbs. chopped Alfalfa (the only kind 
we can get), 000 lbs. ground oats. 000 lbs. 
ground barley, 150 lbs. tankage, 50 lbs. 
salt. Can this be fed young pigs after 
weaning? 
The ration which 
for pigs will work out very nicely, but I 
would not include any salt in the mixture. 
Very often the addition of salt makes the 
ration unpalatable, and therefore would 
limit the amount that the pigs would 
consume. I much prefer to supply the 
salt in the form of a mineral mixture with 
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Ground oats ... 100 
Wheat middlings . 2<X> 
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Questions in Hog Raising 
1. Would it pay me to sell my wheat 
at $2.10 per bu.. or per lb., ind buy 
middlings for $8.50 per cwt.? I have 
corn, oate and wheat, and my Ovvn chop- 
per. Would you advise chopping and 
feeding in slop, or dry? I have )0 logs, 
from 35 to 150 lbs. each. 2. How can 
vou keep pigs from sweating in Winter? 
X. Y. z. 
1. It surely would not pay you tc sell your 
wheat at $2.10 per bushel and turn 
around and buv brown middlings at $3.50 
per 100 lbs. It might pay you to sell the 
wheat and buy corn or hominy, and if you 
can sell the wheat as proposed and pur¬ 
chase some buckwheat middlings at a 
price approximating $2 per 100 lbs., you 
would gain substantially in the transac¬ 
tion. Ground wheat does not make the 
very best of feeds, but I would prefer the 
ground wheat to the brown middlings. It 
would even pay you to sell some of this 
wheat and buy some digester tankage at 
$100 per ton. for your corn and oats are 
both carbohydrate feeds, and to get the 
best --“suits from your feeding practice 
you should feed from 5 to S per cent of 
digester tankage with the corn and oats. 
These feeds can be supplied either by 
means of the free choice system or by 
means of the self-feeder, which would 
mean dry feeding, else they can be mixed 
in the proportion of 100 lbs. corn. 25 lbs. 
oats, 8 lbs. digester tankage, and fed in 
the form of a thick slop approaching the 
consistency of buttermilk. The young 
pigs weighing 35 lbs. apiece would require 
a little more tankage than the shotes 
weighing 150 lbs., and it is doubtful if 
you would be justified in feeding any oats 
to the larger hogs. If .you grind the 
wheat or use the middlings as you have 
indicated, you should include about 40 lbs. 
of this material in the above mixture. 
Feed the pigs all they Avill eat twice daily, 
with relish. Make sure, that they lm\e 
access to some mineral matter, such as 
bone meal, salt, charcoal or ground lime¬ 
stone, and they ought to gain regularly 
2. When pigs are closely confined in 
small buildings they are very apt to pile 
up, and as a result of this practice they 
come out of their pens in the morning 
steaming hot. Usually this condition is 
the result of using rather large amounts 
of bedding, and generally it accompanies 
a condition where there is not much ven¬ 
tilation in the pens. By taking out the 
sash and tacking over the window open¬ 
ing an old gunny sack or beet pulp bag, 
or by elevating the incline of the floor 
in such a manner as to make the bottom 
slanting rather than level, there will be 
less tendency among the hogs to pile up 
and cjuldle together. A dry place to sleep 
is much more important to pigs of this 
age than a warm building, but make sure 
that protection is made against draughts; 
also satisfy yourself that the floors are 
tight and that there are no cold currents 
of air circulating under the platform. I 
take it that your pigs have access to au 
outside yard where the feeding and void¬ 
ing is done, for it is absolutely impossible 
to keep a hoghouse clean unless the pigs 
are trained so that they will not soil in 
their pens or beds. 
Rations for Pigs 
Will you give me from the following 
feeds, first, a balanced ration for young 
pigs being raised for breeding purposes, 
from weaning time; secondly, a ration for 
large brood sows weighing 400 lbs. or 
more, that will contain the necessary ele¬ 
ments for the farrowing of sturdy pigs 
and at the same time be inexpensive? 
Bran. $2.20 
Brown middlings. 2.35 
Ground oats. 3.00 
Cornmeal . 4.00 
Whole ground wheat. 3 75 
Tankage. 5.00 
Bloodmeal . 7.00 
Own, bu. 2.00 
Corn flour, white. 4 00 
Barley flour . 5.00 
Ground Alfalfa . 2.85 
Molasses, gal. _.20 
Pig meal. 5 50 
Alfalfa, about. 40 00 
Corn hulls and hearts, about. 2.50 
Oilmeal, around. 4.00 
I have been using cornmeal, 20 lbs.; 
ground oats, 35 lbs.; wheat middlings, 35 
lbs.; tankage, 10 lbs. I. C. 
Based upon the prices quoted above, 
the most economical ration for young pigs 
would consist of the following mixture: 
100 lbs. corn hulls and hearts, 40 lbs. 
brown middlings, 10 lbs. digester tankage. 
I would do just as you have been doing, 
and include some ground oats in the ra¬ 
tion for mature brood sows, and the only 
addition I would make would he to add 
some Alfalfa or clover hay to the ration 
for both lots of pigs. You can safely in¬ 
crease the amount of cornmeal in your 
mixture, and there would be many advan¬ 
tages in using some of tlie ear corn at $'- 
per bushel. You could not, under any 
circumstances, afford to purchase and feed 
either of the patented feeds you mention. 
Digester tankage at $5 per 100 is by 
all odds more economical, and I am as¬ 
suming that this price is quoted on a 
grade analyzing 00 per cent protein. It 
i.s not nesessary that any middlings be 
included iu the ration for the mature 
sows. Equal parts of Alfalfa, ground 
oats and the cornmeal would be the most 
economical and desirable, although if the 
sows are in good flesh and the weather is 
not too severe, the amount of corn might 
be reduced. Insist, however, that tin* 
bred sows gain regularly in weight to the 
extent, of at least 25 lbs. per month, or, 
iu other words, they should weigli about 
125 lbs. more at the end of their gestation 
period than they did at tlie mating sea¬ 
son. If you could obtain skim-milk at a 
reasonable cost it would give you very 
satisfactory results. Oats are very invig¬ 
orating for brood sows, being bulky «nud 
nutritious, and contain that bone-forming 
constituent so essential in developing 
stretch and frame. 
A brood sow weighing 400 lbs. should be 
fed 2 lbs. of Alfalfa hay and 4 Iks. of 
grain. 8he will gain in weight with this 
ration. If she will eat more chopped hay, 
give it to her; it is excellent for regulat¬ 
ing her digestive system. 
