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January 1ft, 19^0 
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Swine Husbandry 
By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Raising a Boar 
Will you give details for raising a 
young boar for service, such as feeding, 
using for service too young, etc? M. L. b. 
New York. 
We are assuming that the young boar 
in question is old enough for service; that 
is, that he is at least 10 months of age, 
and are taking it for granted that he is 
well grown and matured. It is a serious 
mistake to use small or poorly fed boars 
for service, for the resulting litters are 
bound to be weak and irregular iu size 
and vigor. Perhaps the first requisite in¬ 
volved in the feed, care and management 
of a young boar is to provide quarters 
where he can take regular exercise. The 
penning of a service boar in a small, fil¬ 
thy, dirty pen is a very common mistake. 
So far as the feeding ration is concerned, 
care should *be taken not to overfeed the 
breeding sire. lie should never have any 
surplus flesh, for this will make him 
heavy «nd inactive, and he is less apt to 
prove a responsible breeder. Equal parts 
of ground oats, wheat «bran, ground Al¬ 
falfa hay and molasses, to which 10 per 
cent of digester tankage has been added, 
makes a very satisfactory combination. 
In the absence of any of the ground feeds. 
Alfalfa or clover bay can be supplied iu a 
convenient slat rack, while ear corn can 
be fed on the cob, and oats that have been 
soaked for 10 or 12 hours can be sprink¬ 
led over with digester tankage, and this 
material fed in the form of a thick slop. 
A boar doing regular service often pre¬ 
sents a problem so far as feeding is con¬ 
cerned. At the height of the breeding 
season he is very apt to rant, his appe¬ 
tite will often disappear, he will get very 
thin and touchy, and it is a real problem 
to get him to take sufficient*nourishment 
to maintain his vigor. If one makes it a 
practice, however, to bring the sows to 
the breeding pen rather than allow the 
boar to run in the lot with the brood sows, 
this problem will solve itself. In a num¬ 
ber of instances good results follow the 
practice of putting a young, vigorous bar- 
row in with the boar and feeding them 
out of the same trough. The barrow with 
his appetite tempts the boar to eat. which 
he otherwise might refuse to do. Usually 
a variety of feeds will tempt an animal’s 
appetite, and the watchful feeder will re¬ 
sort to a number of combinations if he 
finds that the animal’s appetite can be 
tempted in this way Two essentials have 
been emphasized ; first, it is very impor¬ 
tant thsit the animal he regularly exer¬ 
cised. In the second place, lie should he 
fed a nutritious ration and great care 
should be exercised to keep the animal 
from getting too fat previous to the mat¬ 
ing season. After service once begins, the 
feeder must take extra pains to keep his 
animal on feed and not allow him to 
waste his energy. 
Questions About Hay Feeding 
I wish to ask a few questions in re¬ 
gard to feeding hogs for fattening, and 
about a self-feeder. I am figuring on 
building a self-feeder out of a barrel, 
having a funnel-shaped part to place in 
the bottom of barrel so the feed will all 
run down, and a trough built around the 
barrel with slots in the bottom end of 
side of barrel to supply feed trough. My 
plan is to make trough narrow enough 
so they canuot get their feet in. I would 
like your opinion on my plans. At 
present I am feeding a ration near to 
the. following: War time corn flour, 
which I bought at a bargain, 48 per cent; 
corn, oats and barley, 36 per cent; brown 
middlings, 32 per cent; oilmeal, 4 per 
cent. Is it all right to feed ground 
feed in the self-feeder if I keep a good 
supply of water before my pigs? My 
pigs weigh 325 lbs. How much a day 
should they have in weight of feed per 
pig? c. G. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
Your suggested plan for constructing a 
self-feeder has merit, and the only criti¬ 
cism that I would offer is that one barrel 
is too small for dividing into a sufficient 
number of hoppers. When the self- 
feeder is used for feeding pigs one does 
not mix any of the feeds, but rather sup¬ 
plies the various materials by themselves 
in separate compartments or hoppers, and 
invites the pigs to help themselves both 
as to quantity and material. It is true 
that the animals will overfeed during the 
first week or 10 days unless they have 
been gradually brought up to full feed 
previous to the installation of the self- 
feeder, yet the facts do not prove that it 
is an extravagant way of feeding fat hogs 
after they are once on full feed. The 
self-feeder is especially useful during the 
Winter, when forage crops are not avail¬ 
able, and when one must rely exclusively 
upon grains for all feeding. 
Concerning the mixture mentioned, you 
will find that there is very little difference 
between the war time flour and the brown 
middlings so far as the analysis is con¬ 
cerned. and furthermore you will find 
that the brown middlings are iu reality 
but finely ground bran. Hence the one 
criticism that might be offered is that 
you have included an extreme amount of 
wheat feeds iu this combination, and 
scarcely enough barley and oats. I should 
prefer to use 60 per cent of the ground 
oats and barley feed, 30 per cent of the 
flour and middlings and 30 per cent of 
oilmeal or digester tankage. There is an 
advantage in grinding the oats and barley 
for feeding pigs, but shelled corn is quite 
ns well adapted for use as the meal. For 
pigs weighing 325 lbs. intended for mar¬ 
ket purposes you should give them all of 
this mixture, if they are hand fed. that 
they will clean up with relish, and it 
should he fed as a thick mash, rather 
than as thin slop. You will find that 
pigs weighing 325 lbs. will consume as 
much as 5 lbs. of this mixture for each 
300 lbs. of live weight when they are on 
full feed and gaining approximately a 
pound a day. 
Ration for Young Pigs 
Would the following he a well-bal¬ 
anced ration for pigs about four months- 
old? Seventy-five pounds ground oats, 
75 lbs. ground barley, 45 lbs. middlings. 
40 lbs. cornmeal, 13 lbs. 60 per cent 
tankage. Would the above he too rich in 
protein for the mother of the pigs? 
Illinois. * v. c. T. 
The above ration would he very well 
suited for pigs four months old. weighing 
about 100 lbs. I would increase the corn- 
meal, however, to 75 lbs., and. if mid¬ 
dlings were expensive, they might be 
eliminated and the tankage increased to 
20 lbs. It. would he quite as well suited 
for mature animals as youngsters in case 
the middlings were eliminated. A com¬ 
bination of ground oats, barley and tank¬ 
age cannot he improved upon for feed¬ 
ing pigs, unless one has available skim- 
milk or buttermilk. 
Carrots for Hogs 
3. What is the food value of carrots 
and sugar beets for hogs? Are they 
better cooked or raw? 2. After swarming 
in Summer and going to the woods, have 
bees ever been known to return to their 
old home in the Fall? g. d. l. 
Pennsylvania. 
1. One ton of carrots will yield 198 lbs. 
of digestible nutrients, as compared with 
280 lbs. for sugar beets, and 188 lbs. for 
rutabagas. These materials are more use¬ 
ful in feeding dairy cattle than swine, as 
pigs do not require succulent feeds. For 
brood sows, however, the carrots and 
beets are beneficial, although they should 
be fed for the purpose of stimulating the 
appetite and regulating the digestive sys¬ 
tem of the animals rather than to depend 
upon them to supply dry matter in an 
economical form. There would be no ad¬ 
vantage in cooking the sugar beets, while 
the carrots would be improved by cook¬ 
ing. for if they were boiled considerable 
of the moisture would be driven off and 
the residue would yield ft higher per¬ 
centage of dry matter. 
2. I have never known an instance 
where bees have returned to their hive 
after swarming, provided they had as¬ 
sembled with the queen bee and gathered 
and stored a suply of honey in the woods. 
Some Delaware Poland Chinas 
At present the hog lots are covered 
with snow, and it is difficult to get the 
hogs to take their required exercise. How¬ 
ever. they do pretty well, and do not mind 
the snow so much as might be expected. 
My Fall pigs are doing nicely. I had 32- 
weeks-old pigs that weighed between SO 
and 90 lbs. this Fall. I consider that 
very good for that class of stock, as they 
are fed merely to produce a frame anil 
muscle, not fat. I do not feed much corn ; 
principally oats, middlings, rye, and a lit¬ 
tle molasses, but I keep Alfalfa or clover 
hay before them all the time. They eat it 
like cattle, and it does them a great deal 
of good. Of course the hay furnishes 
bulk, and I feed less concentrates than I 
would otherwise. I consider this advan¬ 
tageous, as otherwise there, is a great ten¬ 
dency for the Polands to fatten. I had 
three exceptionally fine gilts to breed last 
Fall to keep iu my herd. Two of them 
were the first and second prize sows at the 
Delaware. State Fair last year. They 
weighed just about 300 llw. when bred, 
and that will mean that when they far¬ 
row their first litter they will weigh be¬ 
tween 425 and 450 lbs. I like to have my 
hogs grow large, as the pigs are larger 
and grow easier. I had one gilt that far¬ 
rowed last September, and after suckling 
seven pigs for nine weeks weighed over 
400 lbs. iu thin flesh. The litter at 32 
weeks averaged 75 lbs. apiece. While 
cholera raged around here, and bogs were 
lost on every single farm adjoining this 
one, I never lost a pig. I attribute my 
luck to the fact that my hogs were vac¬ 
cinated. well cared for and fed good clean 
food and water, and given plenty of ex¬ 
ercise. That is the way to eradicate hog 
cholera, I believe. j. E. way. 
Delaware. 
