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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 20, 1020 
Necessity for Correct 
Swine Feeding 
Swine Husbandry suffers enormous losses through 
weakened constitution of brood sows; milk fever 
following farrow; sows eating pigs at farrow time; 
small litters; undersized pigs; stunted pigs; thumps, 
and many other losses which in nearly all cases 
are the result of unbalanced rations and improper 
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Swine Husbandry 
By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
A Pig-feeding Proposition 
I propose raising 100 hogs this coming 
season; no pasture, no milk. I would 
buy pigs six weeks old and count on sell¬ 
ing them when nine months old. I would 
feed them equal parts of middlings, oats, 
corn and 10 per cent tankage in slop at 
the start, later eliminate the middlings 
and reduce tankage aud feed in self-feed¬ 
ers. fatten on corn and tankage. I would 
grind my own feeds. Six-weeks-old pigs 
to cost $7. corn $1 per bu., oats $1 per 
bu., middlings $3.25 per ewt., .I.” per rent 
tankage $5 per out. Hogs sell at 13c. 
live weight. What do you think of this? 
Pennsylvania. c. h, s. 
If you can produce on your own farm 
the corn and oats necessary for feeding 
the 100 pigs in question, the chances arc 
that you would get slightly more than a 
new dollar for an old one in the transac¬ 
tion. You have eliminated pasture, which, 
in my judgment, is a very necessary req¬ 
uisite for profitable pork production. The 
growing of forage crops and the harvest¬ 
ing of them by the pigs themselves re¬ 
duces materially the cost of a pound of 
gain, and furthermore makes it possible 
to grow a pig that wilj have feeding qual¬ 
ities to a higher degree when the fatten¬ 
ing period approaches than would prevail 
in case he were kept in a pen and corn- 
fed throughout his entire growing and 
fattening period. You will find that it is 
an exceedingly difficult problem to locate 
100 pigs that will have uniform growing 
and feeding, propensities. If they are 
picked up here and there they will vary 
in size and feeding qualities, and a sur¬ 
prisingly large percentage of them will 
fail to grow and develop as you have 
planned. I am inclined to believe your 
end would be better served in case you 
could breed and grow the pigs on your 
own farm. You will find that it will re¬ 
quire from 330 to 430 lbs. of grain to 
yield 100 lbs. of pork live weight, the 
varying amount due to a number of condi¬ 
tions. such as the ago of the animal and 
the kind of feed supplied. If you are for¬ 
tunate enough to get through the season 
without any loss from cholera, and if it 
is possible for you to assemble pigs of 
known breeding and good individuality, it 
would be conservative for you to figure on 
a net profit of $3 or .$0 per animal, pro¬ 
vided you do not take into consideration 
the question of labor. 
Feeding a Brood Sow 
Would you tell me how to feed a sow 
due to farrow in three weeks? I have 
just bought her. and she will probably 
weigh about 400 lbs. I have barley, oats 
and peas, mixed and ground, whole corn 
on car. and plenty of skim-milk. Docs 
she need water besides the milk? I have 
her in a basement barn, where it is 
warm, in a box stall 12x10. She seems 
to want to sleep most of the time. Should 
she he made to exercise? She is always 
ready for her feed. Should she be fed 
twice or three times a day? I have read 
about feeding tankage to pigs, hut cannot 
get it here. How should I care for her 
after she farrows? ir. M. b. 
New York. 
A brood sow weighing 400 lbs. and ap¬ 
proaching the end of her gestation period 
would require from 3 to 8 lbs. of grain a 
day. A mixture consisting of equal parts 
of barley, oats and peas, ground and 
mixed together, would give most excellent 
results and. with ear corn in addition to 
feed occasionally, and skimmed milk to 
supply the protein, you would surely have 
an ideal mixture. It is necessary that she 
be given some water to drink in addition 
to the skim-milk, although of course brood 
sows having access to skim-milk would 
drink considerably less water. I would 
mix the feed in the form of a thick slop, 
using water for this purpose rather than 
skim-milk. For each pound of dry feed 
fed per day it would be well to allow 4 
or 3 lbs. of skim-milk. Exercise is quite 
as important as feed for brood sows. If. 
as you suggest, the brood sow is inclined 
to sleep most of the time, it is clearly evi¬ 
dent that she is not getting enough oxer- 
cose. By all means get her out. if pos¬ 
sible. so that she can etretdh herself and 
rustic around for at least part of her 
daily food. 
I should feed her twice a day until she 
farrows, and when the pigs are three or 
four weeks old it might be well to feed 
her during the middle of the day, with 
the hope of increasing the flow of milk. 
Tt is not necessary to buy tankage for 
feeding brood sows when you have avail¬ 
able an abundance of skim-milk. The 
same ration that you are now feeding 
would he acceptable after the pigs are 
nursing; only increase the quantity, giv¬ 
ing her practically all that she would 
clean up with relish after the pigs are 
old enough to handle the increased 
amount of milk. The feed should be re¬ 
duced incident to farrowing in order to 
prevent congestion of the udder or undue 
inflammation. The addition of some Al¬ 
falfa or clover hay at this juncture would 
add bulk to the ration and do away with 
any uneasiness that might otherwise pre¬ 
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