The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
619 
Prospects for Pork 
What can you toll me about pork pros¬ 
pects for this year? Is there a good 
chance to make a dollar or lose one on 
about 30 pigs at $5 per cwt. ? Is there 
a chance of hogs going down below feed¬ 
ing price of corn next Fall? a. e. 
East River, Conn. 
Of course it is difficult to predict what 
the future holds in store for the man who 
produces livestock for the market. It 
would be easier to get an overproduction 
of pork than an overproduction of beef 
or mutton, since the pigs reach maturity 
at an early age, yield large litters and 
farmers can double the amount of pork 
produced by simply keeping an added 
number of brood sows. I doubt very 
much that corn will go very much lower 
and the price of pork keeps pace very 
closely with the price of corn. The Gov¬ 
ernment regulations establishing the min¬ 
imum of $17.50 a hundred for pork is 
still in force and this ought to encourage 
the producer. 
The pr‘ of flour is very apt to remain 
where it is so long as the Government 
continues its present fixed price for 
wheat. There is a possibility of ships 
being released in such a quantity that 
Argentine corn may be brought in to 
meet certain demands, although it is 
doubtful if this would affect very gener¬ 
ally the prevailing prices of corn. I do 
not anticipate that pork prices will go 
any higher. In fact, they are very apt 
to slide down the scale until normal 
values are reached. In any event it 
would be good judgment to keep the pigs 
growing and gaining and iu condition to 
sell promptly in • is- die guaranteed 
price should lx recall d and pork values 
were to be determined by supply and de¬ 
mend. I believe that tin' foreign demand 
for our pork producS •increase our 
outlet very materially, and 1 do not look 
for a slump iu the market. F. c. M. 
Waste Flour for Swine 
I can get all the soiled flour I want 
at $1.50 per 100 lbs., and would like to 
feed it to pigs 10 weeks old. Do you 
think it would be injurious to them to 
feed it in thin swill form by itself? 
Which is the betff to mix with it, ground 
oats, barley, cornmeal or middlings? On 
account of its cheapness I would like to 
feed as much flour as I can without 
harm. This flour is just soiled, not sour 
or spoiled. I can have cooked potato 
parings to mix in all the time. I have 
plenty green rye for them to run on. Do 
you think the water in which they are 
cooked would do any harm? What is 
digester tankage and what is it made of? 
Where can I get a book on hog cholera? 
Takoma Park, D. C. c. A. R. 
If you can secure flour that has been 
discolored or soiled at $1.50 a hundred 
it would make very cheap feed; but I 
doubt the wisdom of using this exclu¬ 
sively in a ration for pigs 10 weeks old. 
Equal parts of either ground oats or 
ground barley should be mixed with the 
flour and five per cent of digester tankage 
added to this mixture. Your ration then 
would be 100 pounds of flour, 50 pounds 
of oats and barley and five pounds of 
digester tankage. If corn were cheaper 
in price than barley it could be used to 
replace this product. In any event some 
digester tankage should be used, and there 
is nothing more satisfactory in a ration 
for young pigs than ground oats and 
wheat flour of this sort. A mixture of 
75 pounds -of the flour, 25 pounds of 
ground oats and five pounds of digester 
tankage would make a useful mixture for 
growing pigs, although after they weigh 
from 75 to 100 pounds some corn or 
barley should be added to the mixture. 
Potatoes do not supply much dry mat¬ 
ter for pig feeding, as a ton of potatoes 
would yield only 324 pounds of digestible 
materials. They serve very well as an 
appetizer; but with corn selling at $3 
per hundred you can scarcely afford to 
pay more than (50 cents per hundred for 
the potatoes, and with your low-grade flour 
the potatoes could be used to very good 
advantage, as they would add bulk to the 
ration and make the ration much more 
palatable. The potato water will not harm 
the pigs, although it will detract from the 
flavor of the pulp, and would best be 
turned off. 
Digester tankage is a by-product from 
the large packing-houses. The blood from 
cattle, hogs and sheep is collected and 
piped into large digester tanks, where the 
moisture is driven off, and then the mate¬ 
rial is dried and ground, mixed with 
certain meat trimmings and other slaugh¬ 
terhouse by-products, and sold commer¬ 
cially as a high protein supplement for 
corn and other grains. The best grades 
will contain 00 per cent of protein and, 
even at its present high price, it is the 
most economical source of protein that 
is available for pig feeding. Usually the 
tankage contains about 50 per cent of 
blood meal, which material is very appe¬ 
tizing and is greatly relished by the pigs. 
Perhaps the most extensive treatise on 
swine diseases, including hog cholera, is 
contained in a text book entitled “Dis¬ 
eases of Swine, with Particular Rerereuce 
to Hog Cholera,!’ by Dr. Charles F. 
lunch, price $3.50, which may be obtained 
from this office. Bulletin No. 40. entitled 
“Hog Cholera and Swine Production,” 
issued by the New Jersey Experiment 
Station at New Brunswick, also offers 
practical information concerning this 
dreaded disease. F. C. M. 
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