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Ibt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.Time 12, 1920 
Questions About Hogs 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Preparing Soiling Crops 
Last year I fenced off three fields of one 
acre each, planning to plant one each in 
rape, Sweet clover and Alfalfa for hog 
pasture, fields to be used a day at a time 
alternately. I inoculated aud sowed clover 
and Alfalfa in two fields respectively, and 
as yet this Spring cannot see any signs 
of growth of either clover or Alfalfa. 
Should it be necessary to replant these 
two fields of one acre each, what would 
you recommend to be used as pasture for 
hogs? The third field is now seeded to 
rape. What would you think of a com¬ 
bination of oats and wheat, in one and 
Soy beans and Canada field peas in the 
other? F. A. 
New York. 
It is quite possible that your Alfalfa 
and Sweet clover have winter-killed. You 
will find, however, that the Sweet clover 
is rather late in starting'in the Spring, 
and usually it is more vigorous and hardy 
than the Alfalfa. If you pastured the 
Alfalfa last year you erred, for Alfalfa 
should not "he pastured until its second 
year if one is desirous of keeping it in¬ 
tact for a number of years. The rape, of 
course, must lie seeded each year, and it 
has been our experience that it always 
does much better in combination with 
oats and clover than it does by itself 
unless it be drjlled in rows 10 or IS 
inches apart and cultivated during its 
early growing stage. Generally speak¬ 
ing. it is advisable to plow fields in¬ 
tended for hog pasture each year. I 
prefer what has been designated as the 
shotgun mixture, the idea being that we 
actually mix together a number of forage 
plant seeds, and find that one apparently 
nurses the other. If the season is uufav- 
orable to one it is favorable to another, 
and as a result we get a stand that pro¬ 
duces a good crop. 
I should not recommend the use of oats 
and wheat. It is well enough to seed the 
wheat or rye in the Fall if it is intended 
for early pasture in the Spring; but 
wheat is not suited for planting 1 in the 
Spring in combination with oats. A bet¬ 
ter mixture would be a bushel of oats, a 
half a bushel of Canada field peas, -1 lbs. 
of Dwarf Essex rape-and 2 lbs. of Red 
clover. This should be seeded as early 
in the Spring as possible, and the pigs 
should not be turned into the area until 
the plants are seven or eight inches high, 
and even then they should not be per¬ 
mitted to eat the plants down closely. It 
is even better if the oats are allowed to 
head out and the oats rattle off and 
germinate, and thus provide a splendid 
Fall forage for the pigs. 
Neither would 1 suggest a mixture of 
Soy beans and Canada field peas. A 
more desirable mixture would be _ a 
bushel of Soy beans, 1 2 lbs. of white 
blooming Sweet clover and 4 lbs. of 
Dwarf Essex rape per acre. The rape 
and Sweet clover should be mixed and 
distributed by means of a seeder, while 
the beans can either be broadcast or 
drilled in with an ordinary grain drill. 
The Soy bean mixture should not be 
seeded as early as the oats and Canada 
field pea mixture, for the reason that the 
Soy beans are a hot weather crop, and 
peas, unless they are planted early, will 
be very apt to be attacked by the pea 
louse. If you find that the Canada field 
peas are too expensive, then you can 
limit your combination to oats, rape and 
clover. 
You are on the right track when you 
undertake to produce forage crops for 
pigs. What the silo is doing for the 
dairyman forage crops will do for the 
producer of pork. One is quite as essen¬ 
tial as the other. But do not rely ex¬ 
clusively upon the forage crops to provide 
maintenance for the pigs. Give them in 
addition some corn, or its equivalent., and 
provide them with 2\-> or 3 lbs. of grain 
per day for each 100 lbs. of live weight. 
If your Alfalfa does survive the. Winter 
aud you want to use it for pasturing pur¬ 
poses, you will find it advantageous to 
clip over the field twice during the sea¬ 
son with a mowing machine in order that 
the plants may be invigorated and the 
succulence from the tender young plants 
more palatable and nourishing. Here 
again you are warned not to pasture the 
Alfalfa too closely, for it does so much 
better if given a start aud not cropped 
off so closely. The Sweet clover should 
be allowed to seed itself once in two years 
if it is desired that it shall remain per¬ 
manent in the area. 
Value of Whey 
I wish to know something of the feed¬ 
ing value of whey from half-skim cheese, 
and what to feed with it besides ear corn 
and clover pasture to April pigs. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. J. it. s. 
Generally speaking, whey has about 
half the value of skim-milk. Approxi¬ 
mately 1.200 pounds of whey is equiva¬ 
lent in feeding value to 100 lbs. of corn 
or hominy. Therefore, if corn meal is 
worth $3 per cwt. whey would be worth 
25 cents per cwt. As you know, whey 
has more water in its composition than 
skim-milk and does not contain as much 
protein. There is very little difference 
in the feeding value of sweet and sour 
whey, It has been determined that ordi¬ 
nary whey is worth from 25 to 30 per 
cent more than separated whey. If you 
have dent corn and your pigs are foraging 
on a clover field you have the basis of a 
well-balanced ration. It would be safe to 
let them have all the water that they 
would drink twice a day. supplementing 
this with rolled corn, feeding from 2*4 
to 3 lbs. of the grain daily for each 100 
lbs. of live weight. If you have some 
oats-that you have produced on the farm 
they could be fed in conjunction with 
corn; but it would not be profitable to 
buy either <>ats or middlings at present 
day prices as a supplement to the ear corn 
aud clover. If whey was made from 
skim-milk its value would bo, of course, 
correspondingly reduced. 
Feeding Young Pigs 
I intend to feed a small bunch of young 
pigs this Summer. I expect to get them 
from their mother within about a week 
or 10 days. As I will have no milk to 
Start these pigs on. I am asking as to the 
best ration to get them started right and 
keep them growing. I have plenty of 
clover coming on and can get oilmeal and 
middlings. w. E. B. 
New York. 
In the selection of young pigs intended 
for feeding purposes it is well to make 
sure that they have access to some grain 
previous to weaning if it is desired that 
they shall grow and gain with the. greatest 
regularity. Figs under three months of 
age will not consume a great deal of for¬ 
age ; hence it is necessary to supplement 
even a clover pasture with some grain. 
A useful combination would consist of 
five parts of cornmeal, three parts of 
middlings, two parts of ground oats and 
one part of either tankage or oilmeal. 
Feed the youngsters from 2*4 to 3% His. 
of this combination daily for each 100 
lbs. of live weight. If they had access to 
self-feeders they would consume twice as 
much as we have indicated; but there is 
a doubtful economy, where one had an 
abundance of forage, in feeding pigs all 
the grain that they will consume at 
present prices. Skim-milk or buttermilk 
would add. of course, to the feeding value 
of the ration and gaining propensities of 
the pigs, but with the protein supplied by 
means of the tankage and clover milk is 
not indispensable. Feed your 10-weeks- 
old pigs rather frequently for the first few 
days, but do not overload their stomachs, 
as this is likely to derange the digestive 
system. Keep before them persistently a 
mineral mixture consisting of charcoal, 
salt, bone meal, sulphur and rock phos¬ 
phate, aud you will no doubt-be surprised 
at their sudden gains. 
Worms of Pigs 
Y'liat. is good for worms in pigs, some¬ 
thing that can he easily administered in 
feed? I had two pigs that would not 
grow, so had them killed and found the 
intestines were full of worms. _ The re¬ 
maining ones, no doubt, are afflicted the 
same way. o. r. t. 
New Hampshire. 
Starve the pigs for 24 hours, then give 
in slop for every 50 lbs. of body weight 
2*4 grains each of calomel and santonin, 
one dram of freshly powdered areca nut 
and one-half dram of bicarbonate of soda. 
Repeat the* dose in 10 days. Keep feed¬ 
ing utensils clean and keep the pigs out 
of old. dirty, hog-contaminated yards and 
away from hog wallows, 
away from hog wallows. A. s. a. 
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A very select lot of Boar Pigs 
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Price attractive. Also service 
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LUINP. KENNEDY, Mentor, Ohio 
^Choice Berkshires-^ 
We have some extra nice young 
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and Double Champion 33rd breed¬ 
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Webb Farms, Box R, Clinton Corners, N.Y. 
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Several selected Fall gilts, Big, Smooth and Typey. Will 
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A FEW FINE SPRING PIGS LEFT 
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Stone’s Berkshires 
Write for descriptive catalogue aud price list of 
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Cat Rock Farm Berkshires "Veters 
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Berry ton, Georgia 
John M. Berry, Pres. A. E. Wright, Gen. Mgr. 
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DUROC JERSEYS J, 0 “ r $ r i° 0 *n! 
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JUNE 
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