The RURAL NEW-YO RKEK 
395 
Swine Husbandry 
By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Fun With the Pigs 
The pictures of pigs and children here 
shown were sent, us by Mr. Jesse F. Clift 
of Onondaga County, N. Y. Mr. Clift 
says that these pictures show some of the 
members of his family exhibiting their pet 
pig. There are three of the babies repre¬ 
sented in these two pictures, and Mr. Clift 
says that they have seven more, all older 
Tame Pig as Saddle Horse 
than these three, running up to 25 years. 
They are all at home except one, and as 
Mr. Clift rightly says, all this keeps some 
one busy “fighting the high cost of living.” 
Certainly these children have what you 
might call a “patient porker.” This pig 
enters right into the play and is ready to 
bear his share of the family burden. As 
we have stated a number of times, we 
don’t quite like the idea of little children 
getting too close to these big animals, but 
this pig shows by his position and his 
countenance that he is what you might 
call very good natured. 
Feeding Brood Sow 
Will Prof. Minkler give me a ration for 
a brood sow which weighs about 350 lbs., 
bred December 23? Ration should be 
made of farm-raised feeds, such as corn, 
oats, barley, with bran and middlings. 
Middlings are mostly fine ground bran, 
not white middlings like we used to get. 
ration that has been suggested, I would 
give her free access to Alfalfa or clover 
hay. On the other hand, if you have Al¬ 
falfa or clover hay, and an abundance of 
ear corn, oats and barley, you could elimi¬ 
nate the oilmeal provided the Alfalfa was 
of a fine enough grade to make it possible 
for her to consume enough of this rough- 
age to supply the necessary protein. 
A gain of six pounds a day is unusual. 
One could scarcely imagine a better com¬ 
bination than corn and skim-milk for fat¬ 
tening growing pigs. It would seem from 
your experience that the gains cost quite 
as much as the meat is worth after it is 
produced. The prevailing price of hogs is 
unusually low if one considered the price 
of grains necessary for feeding pigs. It 
will be recalled that a year ago pork was 
selling for more than 20 cents a pound 
live weight, and that the prevailing costs 
of grain were no greater than at the pres¬ 
ent time when the price is nearer 15 cents, 
Fattening Pigs 
1. I have some Berkshire and Duroc 
pigs which I want to fatten. As I have 
no market for the cull potatoes I bought a 
cooker and boil them for the pigs. They 
eat the potatoes, but as a result do not 
care much for the ear corn which they get 
in the morning and do not get very fat. 
Shall I mix the potatoes with some ground 
feed, and which kind do you advise? I 
was told that some tankage should be 
added. Feed is extremely expensive, hut 
I would gladly use it if I can be sure of 
the better results. 
2. I have two old cows, both dry, which 
I want to fatten in order to use up the 
nubbins and soft ears of corn which arc 
this year quite plentiful. I give them fod¬ 
der and all the corn they will eat. Fan I 
add some other feed to fatten them 
quicker, or is the ration given sufficient? 
3. Is plain automobile oil good against 
lice on pigs? n. w. 
New York. 
1. It is impossible to fatten pigs ex¬ 
clusively on cull potatoes, but if they are 
cooked and the water drained off, and the 
pulp supplied in generous quantity you 
will find that they will prefer this pulp 
to most any other thing that can be sup¬ 
plied. The way to solve your problem is 
to mix some cornmeal or shelled corn with 
the potato pulp and feed it iu combination 
rather than as ear corn. It would be well 
to include a small percentage of tankage 
in this mixture in order to make sure that 
sufficient protein is available. The follow¬ 
ing mixture is recommended: 100 lbs. of 
potatb pulp, 50 lbs. of shelled corn or 
cornmeal, 25 lbs. of ground oats or barley, 
5 lbs. of digester tankage. Do not cook 
any of the feed other than the potatoes, 
and feed it in the form of a thick slop 
rather than as a thin slop. Feed them all 
that they will clean up with relish of this 
mixture t"'ice daily, and provide in addi¬ 
tion a mineral mixture consisting of equal 
parts of salt, charcoal, ground limestone, 
sulphur and bonemeal. 
2. So far as the two cows are con¬ 
cerned, you will find that they will fatten 
quite as quickly on corn and corn fodder 
as any other combination that you could 
supply economically. Feed them all that 
Swat citing the Pig's Back With a Teeter Board . 
A year ago you told me how to feed my 
shotes with corn and skim-milk. I made 
a gain of 180 lbs. in 33 days, nearly six 
pounds a day for the two shotes, but not 
much profit—$2.S6—without figuring la¬ 
bor or investment, etc., just cost of pigs. 
Indiana. u. u. 
A useful mixture for a brood sow to 
farrow in April would consist of the fol¬ 
lowing: 100 lbs. of corn, 100 lbs. of oats, 
100 lbs. of barley, 100 lbs. of middlings, 
40 lbs. of oilmeal. 
She should have a sufficient amount of 
this grain to enable her to gain a pound 
a day during her gestation period. To ac¬ 
complish this it will require from 5 to 7 
ibs. of the grain mixture, although the 
amount must he determined by actual ex¬ 
perience under the conditions prevailing, 
and cannot be determined accurately iu 
advance, Iu addition to this concentrated 
they will eat twice daily of the soft corn. 
Clover or Alfalfa hay would contribute 
materially to their gains, as it would pro¬ 
vide roughage in palatable form. 
3. Crude oil would be preferable to 
automobile oils in the eradication of lice 
on pigs, and you will find that it is less 
expensive and that it can he more easily 
applied. Put it on with the ordinary rice 
root brush, making sure to cover the en¬ 
tire surface, and repeat the application iu 
seven days. 
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father gives them a home, an uncle fur¬ 
nishes it. au aunt presents them with a 
car, and the' girl has a nice income of her 
own.” “Fine. And what does the bride¬ 
groom supply?” “Well, so far as I can 
see, he contributes the firm name.”—Life. 
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