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Bacon Hogs and Virginia Ham 
(Continued from page 128) 
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ground barley and Soy bean meal would 
provide a useful grain ration for finishing 
jacou hogs. This of course should be 
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Use of Self-feeder 
Do you have the information from any 
successful and practical swine breeders as 
to whether the self-feeder placed under 
cover, in a hog lot. containing a balanced 
ration will raise pigs better, force them 
along to maturity quicker and gain flesh 
more economically than by the old method 
of slopping, or are the self-feeders prac¬ 
tical merely as a labor-saving device? 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. w. o. H. 
The self-feeder has long since passed 
the experimental stage. It not only serves 
as a labor-saving device, hut it introduces 
into swine feeding operations a system 
of feeding that insures rapid and economi¬ 
cal gains. It has been pointed out re¬ 
peatedly, however, in these columns that 
the free choice system is best adapted for 
growing and fattening market hogs, and 
that it is not adapted for use in main¬ 
taining the breeding herd, nor in develop¬ 
ing young animals intended for breeding 
purposes. Brood sows nursing pigs can 
be fed advantageously through the self- 
feeder, inasmuch as it insures the maxi¬ 
mum production of milk and enables the 
young i>igs to nibble away at grain mix¬ 
tures at an even earlier age than would 
prevail under any other system of feed¬ 
ing or management. 
The self-feeder can best be installed for 
U6e of brood sows nursing pigs when the 
youngsters are three weeks old. Such 
materials as shelled corn, ground oats, 
wheat middlings, digester tankage and 
ground barley are placed in separate 
compartments, and the pigs are allowed 
to choose both the quantity and the par¬ 
ticular variety of feeding stuffs that their 
appetites relish. When weaning time 
approaches, that is. when the pigs are 
from seven to nine weeks old, the brood 
sow shoud he taken out of the lot. placed 
in a dry yard and all grain denied her 
until her udders are dried up and the 
milk flow has ceased. The use of Alfalfa 
hay and water provides an excellent ra¬ 
tion for brood sows during this drying- 
tip period. 
It is well to leave the weaned pigs on 
the self-feeder for a couple of weeks 
after weaning, and it is assumed that 
they are running at leisure on forage 
crops. At the end of the two weeks* 
period the self-feeder should be removed, 
the amount of grain gradually reduced 
Until the youngsters are being fed about 
2 V'i lbs. of grain per day for each TOO lbs. 
of live weight. We have found it an ad¬ 
vantage to limit the grain ration at this 
time simply because it prompts them to 
consume a greater amount of the forage 
crops, which will provide growth and 
gains more economically than any grain 
ration we have been able to provide. It 
is true that the pigs will fatten more 
quickly if allowed to have free access to 
the self-feeders as well as the forage 
crop during the entire growing season; 
nit they are inclined to put on too much 
flesh and fail to develop that stretch and 
frame that one obtains when the grain 
ration is restricted and the amount of 
forage crop harvested increased. We 
continue this restricted grain ration un¬ 
til the pigs weiglt 125 lbs., at which time 
the self-feeders are reinstalled and the 
pigs forced to market at the earliest 
possible moment. 
Care must be exercised to place the 
feeder on a platform or cement base, so 
protected that filth and mud holes will 
pot surround it. An abundance of water 
and liberal amounts of mineral matter, 
euch as is provided by wood ashes, bone- 
meal, ground limestone and acid phos¬ 
phate. .should he available. With these 
conditions complied with there is no rea¬ 
son why the self-feeder will not reduce 
the labor cost, and the cost of feeding 
of 100 lbs. of grain will be considerably 
less than would result from any hand 
feeding system that the average farmer 
is capable of instituting. Of course, the 
pigs will cat extravagantly when the self- 
feeders are first installed, but the 
thoughtful herdsman gradually brings his 
pigs up to full feed by hand feeding pre¬ 
vious to installing the self-feeder, and 
hence does not involve the extravagance 
that otherwise would obtain. The self- 
feeder alone is not a device that will solve 
all of the swine feeder’s problems. lie 
must exercise common sense methods 
both in the selection of feeds and in the 
general care of the herd if he is to obtain 
the most rapid gains at the least possible 
cost. One thing is sure, pigs having ac¬ 
cess to the self-feeder when the hoppers 
are full of grain will not go hungry, and 
it is the hungry pig that usually fails 
to make regular and economical gains. 
