“P* RURAL. NEW-YORK 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration for Young Pigs; Worms 
1. Will yon give mo ration for young 
pigs, 75 lbs. weight? How would 100 lbs. 
each, as follows, be? Cornmeal, red dog, 
middlings, ground oats without hulls, and 
100 lbs. of linseed meal, or would tankage 
be better than linseed? If this ration is 
not right, give me a good one. If I use 
linseed meal, how much should I use? 
How often should I give them sulphur, 
and how much? 2. What is a remedy for 
worms in pigs? F. j. s. 
New York. 
1. I would fault the ration that you 
have described for pigs weighing 75 lbs. 
because it contains an unnecessarily large 
amount of linseed meal. * It is not neces¬ 
sary, under any circumstances, to feed as 
much as 25 per cent <>f linseed meal, and, 
should you feed this material as indicated, 
you would find the ration very laxative 
and there would be a great deal of di¬ 
gestible material voided. Linseed meal 
is not well adapted to pig feeding on ac¬ 
count of its laxative quality, and even 
though tankage is worth $100 per ton it is 
a more economical source of protein for 
pigs than is offered by oilmeal at $65 a 
ton. The following mixture would be 
better suited for pigs of the age you de¬ 
scribe : 320 lbs. cornmeal, 40 lbs. ground 
oats, 30 lbs. red dog fh>ur, 30 lbs. digester 
tankage. If it is impossible for you to 
buy the 60 per cent protein-carrying tank¬ 
age, substitute 15 lbs. of oilmeal for 10 
lbs. of the digester tankage. So far as 
the mineral mixture is concerned, take 
equal parts of salt, charcoal, bonemeal, 
rock sulphate, ground limestone and sul¬ 
phur. and keep this before the pigs at all 
.times. 
2. The following remedy will success¬ 
fully eliminate worm's in pigs. Withhold 
all food for 24 hours; divide the herd into 
groups of 20 animals. Mix the following 
worm remedy with the food ration and 
give it to the animals at the close of the 
starvation period: Santonin. S grains; 
areea nut, 2 drams; calomel, 1 grain; 
sodium bicarbonate, 1 dram. This amount 
is sufficient for one pig weighing 100 lbs., 
and the dose should be increased or dimin¬ 
ished according to the size of the pig. 
Care should be exercised not to use too 
much food, as it dilutes the medicine. If 
the pigs continue to have an emaciated 
appearance, if their hair is dry and 
coarse and lacks the luster indicative of 
healthy animals, repeat the dosage in 
three weeks. Turpentine has also been 
used with success, the dosage being a tea¬ 
spoonful of turpentine diluted with half a 
pint of milk, this amount being sufficient 
for a pig weighing 50 lbs. It is necessary 
to starve the pig for 24 hours previous to 
administering this treatment, as all ver¬ 
mifuges wprk more advantageously on an 
empty stomach, and. furthermore, it is 
quite impossible to induce the pig to take 
such medicine unless he is very hungry at 
the time the remedy is offered to him. 
Price of Brood Sow 
I have a purebred Tamworth sow by 
Glenwood Chief, he by Oak T’dge Long¬ 
fellow (140151, out of Glen ood Queen 
(18768) bv Long Tom 4th (13047). She 
is two and one-half years old. had two 
litters of fine pigs, is the most intelligent 
mother and in tine condition and ready 
to breed: eight perfect pigs last litter. 
What is she worth? She is not registered, 
but as you see she is entitled to registry 
and can be. When I bought her I thought 
I was smart enough to run my farm, 
breed hogs, and run my practice—but I 
am not as smart as I thought I was, and 
something must quit, so the hog breeding 
must go. The sow is for sale and I do 
not know what to ask for her—thus this 
letter. u. j. m. 
Washington, T>. C. 
It would be quite impossible to set a 
value on the brood 1 sow without having 
more information concerning her size, 
condition and general conformation. The 
fact that she is not registered would nlso 
detract from any price that you might 
set in case you desired to sell her for 
breeding purposes, and might bring her 
selling price down to the prevailing meat 
prices. I have no doubt that tills brood 
sow is an unusual producer of pigs. As¬ 
suming that she is well grown and in 
good condition, she ought to weigh in the 
neighborhood of 550 pounds. If this is 
the case she ought to be worth 25 cents 
a pound; and if she is safely settled to a 
purebred sire you ought to get from $100 
to $150 for‘her. I dare say it woqhl be 
to your advantage to secure registration 
papers and sell her as a purebred, which 
she really has a right to be sold for, when 
one considers her breeding and individu¬ 
ality. Pork prices, as you are well aware, 
have soared to unusual heights during 
the past two years and now, on account 
<>f the Government regulation, the price 
must not go below $17.50 per hundred. 
So, if you have a purebred brood sow, 
one that has a record of performance back 
of her, it ought not to be difficult for you 
to dispose of her, in case you secure the 
registration papers, for $150. 
I regret to note that you have not been 
encouraged or successful in your swine- 
raising activities; but it is not good 
judgment to meddle with pigs unless one 
has the facilities for caring for them ami 
can produce on his own area sufficient 
feeds to supply their needs. 
Cows and Swine 
1. Will you give a grain ration to bal¬ 
ance the following roughage? Silage and 
Alfalfa or clover hay. 2. Alfalfa or 
clover hay. 3. Corn stover (husked corn 
stalks), fed twice a day, and Alfalfa or 
clover hay fed once a day. 4. Corn stover, 
fed once a day, and Alfalfa or clover hay 
f< d twice a day. 5. Alfalfa or clover hay 
fed once a day, straw at noon and corn 
•stover once a day. 6. What causes the 
droppings of sucking pigs to be white, 
even though they are whole in form, not 
thin? 7. What causes young pigs, after 
they are weaned, to grow faster behind 
than in front, especially when no milk is 
fed? Is it too heavy graining? 8. I gave 
a rounding teaspoonful of ground gentian 
root, once a day to four pigs and they 
straightened up. I did not increase the 
gentian as they grew older, hut I noticed 
when I killed them their galls were very 
full and while cooling turned a trifle yel¬ 
low. If a person stopped feeding two 
weeks before they were killed, would that 
have a tendency to counteract that yel¬ 
lowness? How much gentian could be 
fed to young pigs with safety, right after 
weaning? 0. A great many persons, my¬ 
self included, cannot use self-feeders for 
pigs and hogs. How much of the follow¬ 
ing mixture should young pigs, shotes and 
hogs, have each day. or each meal? Equal 
parts, by measure, of salt, charcoal, ashes, 
ground limestone and copperas. Would 
you add anything else for mineral matter? 
Would South Carolina rock be good to 
add to it if it could be had? Is there 
anything else that you would add to it? 
Lancaster, N. Y. h. j. e. 
1. Assuming that you have enough 
silage and Alfalfa hay, so that the cows 
could be given all of both materials that 
they would clean up with relish, the fol¬ 
lowing grain ration would be well suited 
for feeding in connection with such rough- 
age : 300 lbs. of cornmeal, 200 lbs. of 
buckwheat middlings, 200 lbs. of cotton¬ 
seed meal. 
2. With Alfalfa or clover hay and 
roughage, and no silage or other sirccu- 
leuee, I would add to the above ration 200 
lbs. of beet pulp and 50 lbs. of oilmeal. 
3. If the cows were given all of the 
clover hay that they would eat once a day, 
and supplied with corn stover for the 
other feeding, I would use the same grain 
ration as suggested in No. 2; but it would 
be possible to reduce the Alfalfa and 
clover hay a trifle, as the corn stover 
would take the place of some of this 
roughage. 
4. Very little would be gained through 
feeding corn stover twice a day, especially 
if the clover and Alfalfa hay were foil 
twice a day. Assuming that you do not 
have any silage to supplement either of 
these rations, I would utilize the following 
grain mixture: 200 lbs. of hominy meal. 
200 lbs. of ground oats, 200 lbs. of beet 
pulp. 200 lbs. of cottonseed meal, 50 lbs. 
of oilmeal. 
5. Oat straw does not contain very 
much feeding value, and I would prefer 
corn siover to straw in any event. The Ta¬ 
ra tion ggested in No. 2 could be fed with 
this addition of roughage, although the ad¬ 
dition of 50 lbs. of gluten would make 
up for the lessened amount of Alfalfa 
and clover. 
6. To remedy the condition described 
with young pigs add some Epsom salts 
or raw linseed oil to the ration of the 
brood sow, which will serve as a purge 
for the young pigs and correct the con¬ 
stipated condition that is noticed. Try 
to induce the young pigs to take some 
grain in addition to their nurse, especially 
if they are three or four weeks old, and 
iu this connection cracked corn, sprinkled 
with ground oats and oil meal will prove 
very attractive and very useful. 
7. It is not easy to determine just what 
you refer to in your next question. If 
it is inferred that the pigs weaken iu their 
hindquarters this condition is due en¬ 
tirely to a lack of sufficient mineral mat¬ 
ter in the grain ration. It is natural for 
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