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Feeding Hogs; Milk Leg 
(Continued from page 660) 
it will supply late forage that will be 
very palatable to the pigs. The Soy 
beans should be drilled in about the mid¬ 
dle of May. It is an advantage to seed 
rape earlier than this date, when seeded 
alone. 
A mixture of Canada field peas, rape 
and Sweet clover is often suggested, and 
will probably yield a larger amount of 
forage, per acre, than will the Soy beans 
and rape mixture. The proportions of 
the last-named mixture are as follows: 
One bushel oats, one bushel Canada field 
peas, five pounds Dwarf Essex rape, five 
pounds Red Clover, seven pounds Sweet 
clover. If the field is not pastured too 
closely the oats will grow up above the 
other plants, seed themselves and shatter 
off and, under average conditions, many 
of the scattered oats will take root, and 
a very attractive second crop of oats 
will appear and make splendid Fall for¬ 
age for the pigs. I doubt if there is any¬ 
thing that will beat this combination for, 
if the season is unfavorable to one group 
of plants it will probably be favorable to 
another, and you will have your forage in 
spite of unfavorable conditions. As for 
a table that would guide you in determin¬ 
ing whether wheat feeds are more eco¬ 
nomical than eornmeal and hominy meal. 
I might refer you to Henry’s “Feeds and 
Feeding,” which can be purchased from 
this office, price’ $2.50, or by making re¬ 
quest to the director of the New York 
Experiment Station at Ithaca, asking 
him to send you a copy of Bulletin N. L. 
117 on “Computing Rations for Farm 
Animals.” by Prof. Savage. You will find 
here tables that have been very carefully 
worked out, as to cost and comparative 
values. 
Usually wheat feeds are more expensive 
than com, or corn by-product feeds; but 
there has beeu such a shake-up in feed 
prices during the last six weeks that one 
is uot safe in predicting what the relation 
between the protein-carrying feeds and 
the carbohydrate group will be. I would 
use wheat by-products with some oats or 
barley mixed while the pigs are young, at 
least until they weigh 75 pounds apiece, 
then I would turn to the corn products 
or forage crops, and I have reason to be¬ 
lieve that the gains will be more eco¬ 
nomical under this system of feeding than 
'would prevail if you lelied upon wheat 
feeds to form the basis of your ration. 
2. The condition that you describe is 
indicative of what is commonly known 
as “milk leg.” although it is rather un¬ 
usual to have tjjiis condition present itself 
so promptly, for generally the increase ?n 
size is gradual and the member becomes 
very large and cumbersome. I doubt very 
much if it is the result of a snake bite 
for, if this were the case, there would be 
some evidence of the wound, though 
poisoning by ivy will sometimes bring 
about this condition. If it is milk leg 
there is nothing that ran be done to re¬ 
lieve the trouble. If it is the result of 
a strain, or even caused by ivy poison¬ 
ing. applications of sugar of lead, jp dilu¬ 
tion. will bring about relief. If it is the 
result of a strain, nothing is more ad¬ 
vantageous than the cold water treat¬ 
ment. which method is to tie the hose on 
the limb and let the water run continu¬ 
ously for several hours, as this relieves 
the inflammation and reduces the conges¬ 
tion. Keep the horse on rather laxative 
feeds; do not feed any corn, and use 
Glauber salts regularly in the grain ra¬ 
tion to the extent of a heaping table¬ 
spoonful three times a day. Make sure 
that the horse has regular though not 
violent exercise, and it is very probable 
that within a short time the swelling will 
disappear. If the cold water is applied 
during the Winter months a warm day 
must be selected, and, as soon as the 
treatment is concluded, the leg should be 
thoroughly dried and wrapped with a 
woolen cloth, and again dried with saw¬ 
dust. theu dry bandaged, in order to make 
sure the animal will not take cold. 
Feeding Brood Sow 
I have a young sow that is just starting 
in to breed and this will be her first litter. 
Will you tell me if I have to feed her 
anything else, as I am feeding her mid¬ 
dlings and scraps from the table? I feed 
everything warm morning and night, 8 
a. in. and 4 p. m. I give her plenty of 
fresh water. Should 1 put a lump of 
salt in the pen? We have to buy every¬ 
thing until this year’s crop. MBS. t. j. c. 
Connecticut. 
Middlings alone, even though supple¬ 
mented with refuse from the kitchen, 
would not make a complete or satisfac¬ 
tory ration for a brood sow. There is 
little doubt that she might gain in weight, 
from this ration, nevertheless the addi¬ 
tion of equal parts of corn and oats to the 
middling base, plus' the addition of the 
kitchen refuse, would supply this animal 
with a more nutritious and satisfying 
feed. I would not put any salt in the 
grain mixture, as there is danger of using 
too much of this material. No harm 
would result, however, from placiug a 
lump of rock salt in the pen where the 
pig could have access to it; but a better 
plan would result in utilizing equal parts* 
of salt, bone meal, charcoal and air- 
slaked lime, placing this in a box, or 
feeder, where it would be protected from 
the elements and where the pig could 
have access to it at leisure. Some clover 
or Alfalfa hay, supplied by means of 
racks, would be advantageous. So far as 
the amount of grain is concerned, assum¬ 
ing that your sow would weigh 500 lbs., 
she would require between 5 and 6 lbs. of 
grain per day to maintain her body 
weight, and put on the pound a day that 
is desired that brood sows put on during 
their gestation period. Ten per cent of 
oil meal, or five per cent of tankage, if 
you do not have any skim-milk, would 
add further to the usefulness of this 
ration. 
Sow Fails to Breed: Feed for Cow 
1. I have a youug sow six mouths old 
that does not breed. She is a good size 
and a hustler. What do you advise? 2. 
What is a good grain ration for a fresh 
COW? j. H. B. 
Angola, N. Y. 
1. Brood sows that carry an excessive 
amount of flesh often fail to breed regu¬ 
larly, and there may be some physical 
defect. Invariably the best course to fol¬ 
low is to dispose of all such animals for 
pork, rather than experiment with the 
various suggestions that are often given 
fpr bringing into use barren animals. 
With the present prices of pork you 
would be money ahead if you would sell 
her for pork and buy another brood sow 
that is normal and regular in her mating 
habits. 
2. For a family cow just fresh I would 
suggest the following mixture: 100 
pounds of eornmeal. 40 pounds of ground 
oats, 40 pounds of wheat bran and 30 
to 40 pounds of oilmeal. Mix this feed 
and use one pound of the mixture for 
each four pounds of milk produced daily. 
In addition give her all. the roughage, 
preferably clover or Alfalfa hay, that she 
will clean up with relish. There would 
be many advantages in buying 100 pounds 
of beet pulp, moistening five pounds of 
this daily, using 25 pounds of water, and 
rely upon this material to supply the 
succulence of the ration. The grain 
should be mixed with the moistened beet 
pulp just previous to feeding. If you 
have mangels it would not be necessary 
to use beet pulp. 
Feeds for Shotes and Sow 
1. Are ground oats a good feed for 
shotes weighing 10O lbs.? I am feeding 
100 lbs. ground corn, 100 lbs. ground oats. 
100 lbs. ground rye. with sour milk and 
tankage. 2. Would 100 lbs. ground corn. 
100 lbs. ground oats. 100 lbs. white mid¬ 
dlings. with some tankage, make a good 
feed for a sow having pigs? C. E. u. 
CUambersburg, I’a. 
1. You will find ground oats a very 
satisfactory feed for pigs weighing 100 
pounds if it is fed in the combination 
suggested above. There is nothing that 
will bring about rapid growth and normal 
bone development any better than oats in 
combination with corn. rye. and tankage, 
especially if this is supplemented with 
skim-milk. 
2. Equal parts of ground oats. corn, and 
middlings, with 5 p >r cent of digester 
tankage added, would make a very useful 
mixture for brood sows nursing pigs. If 
middlings are the most expensive element 
in your ration they can be reduced some¬ 
what and. if you could spare any of the 
skim-milk for the brood sow suckling pigs, 
you would find that this would very ma¬ 
terially increase the flow of milk. By 
clinging to home-grown feed such as you 
have indicated, you know absolutely the 
products that you are feeding and. if the 
brood sow could have some Alfalfa or 
clover hay in addition to her concentrates, 
there would be an advantage, and you 
should make sure (hat minerals such as 
bone meal, acid phosphate, or ground 
hone should he accessible. 
