The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
November 0, 1920 
Your animals are coming off summer pastures and going on dry 
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—But unless you supply these tonics and laxatives to your stock on 
dry feed, you are not going to get full returns from your hay, grain and 
fodder. Besides, your animals are apt to get “off-feed” and out of fix. 
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Questions on Hog Farming 
I have put a hog-tight fence around 40 
acres of permanent pasture, which in¬ 
cludes a strip of woods for shade, find 
through which there runs a good brook. 
It is my plan to buy newly weaned pigs 
next Spring, and run them in this lot, 
and to raise alongside si field of corn with 
which to finish thorn out by the “hogging 
down" process. 
llow many pigs should T attempt to 
raise, the pasture being good? IIow much 
of a daily ration, and what, should I pro¬ 
vide beside the pasture? How much corn 
should I plant (our corn averages about 
60 bushels per acre) to finish off the 
bunch? I have had always excellent re¬ 
sults with small bunches of pigs, feeding 
them swill, including skim-milk from a 
few cows, but I know nothing of hog rais¬ 
ing on a large scale. It. is my purpose 
next Fall to sell all the pigs, for they 
naturally will be a mixed lot, and buy 
brood sows enough of some purebred 
strain—probably O. T. C. or Duroc—and 
begin 1922 with a drove of purebmls. 
When you estimate the number of pigs my 
acreage will carry, let me know your idea 
of the number of brood sows T need, and 
whether I would better buy them in the 
late Fall of 1921 or in the Spring of 1922. 
New York. ,t. t. p. 
We are assuming that your permanent 
j pasture contains Timothy. Blue grass, 
| Ited-top, in combination, and that it is 
| void of the legumes. You are reminded 
I that such pa-sture will not provide as 
| much r forage for growing pigs as might 
} he obtained from the use of such combina¬ 
tions as oats and rape, the various clovers, 
Alfalft or Soy beans. 
You are likewise reminded that even 
| though you purchase your pigs at wean¬ 
ing age, it is well to provide some grain 
! to supplement the permanent pasture. 
While well-bred pigs will thrive on per¬ 
manent pasture alone, they will not make 
as satisfactory nor as economical gains 
on the pasture alone as would result iu 
case they were fed say 2 to 2If, lbs. of 
grain per day for each 100 lbs? of live 
weight. Of course there is nothing better 
than corn with skim-milk or digester tank¬ 
age as a supplement. 
First, it is generally calculated that one 
i acre of good permanent pasture or a well- 
| started forage crop will carry 20 pigs 
i weighing 100 11ms. This is perhaps the 
I maximum, and at the outset you might 
| safely figure on 10 pigs weighing 100 lbs., 
I or their equivalent, per acre, throughout 
the season. Second. I should feed 2*4 to 
8 lbs. of grain per day for each 100 lbs. 
of live weight to pigs having access to 
permanent pasture. This ration would 
consist of 65 lbs. corn, 20 lbs. ground oats, 
5 lbs. of 60 per cent digester tankage. 
The addition of 5 or 10 lb*, of corn germ 
meal for each 100 lbs. of this mixture 
would add to its value in case there were 
no legumes or clovers in the mixture. 
\Ye are assuming that you intend to 
market your pigs when they are weighing 
from 125 to 150 lbs. The first mentioned 
figure is the popular weight for butcher 
stock in this section. For pigs that are 
well grown you ought to obtain 100 lbs. 
of live weight for each 400 lbs. of grain 
fed :_lience if you wish to grow your pigs 
to 150 lbs. you should figure tin providing 
000 lbs. of grain. There would he an ad¬ 
vantage in dividing your 40-acre area into 
two lots, so that the pigs could either be 
changed from one lot to the other, or 
make it convenient for you to divide the 
pigs according to size. 
Concerning your final question as to 
the number of brood sows and pigs that 
you could carry on the area suggested, it 
would he necessary for us to have a little 
more information before we could answer 
intelligently. You do not state whether 
you have a sufficient area of farm land 
to enable you to grow the necessary grain 
crops for feeding the number of pigs that 
you could safely forage on 40 acres of 
pasture. You will find that the growing 
of such crops as corn, oats, barley and 
Alfalfa, or the clovers, are best suited for 
swine feeding. The Alfalfa and clover 
hay will provide some hay for use in feed¬ 
ing brood sows during the Winter, and 
likewise supplement your pasture in case 
a dry season should be encountered. It 
would be necessary for you to buy some 
protein-carrying feed to supplement these 
carbohydrates, and at the present moment 
digester tankage and corn germ meal, 
mixed in equal proportions, will serve this 
end to the best advantage. 
Concerning the breed of pigs best suit¬ 
ed for such conditions, you would not he 
disappointed if you chose either of the 
breeds mentioned. Both of them are well 
suited fur foraging, are good feeders and. 
provided you obtained prolific strains, you 
ought to obtain the desired results, ion 
can safely figure that a brood sow will 
produce an average of six or seven pigs 
with her first litter. During the second 
year she ought to produce two.litters ol 
pigs, and raise from 12 to 15 pigs in the 
two litters. A number of your sows will 
go farrow, others will lose all of then 
pigs: hut with this as a basis you ought 
to be able to figure the number of pigs 
that you can pasture and raise grain 
enough to feed ami finish. Your SUg£ l ' s 
tion of hugging down the corn is a prac- 
| tieal one; but here again the number ot 
pigs that au acre of ground or of corn 
! will fatten depends upon the yield of corn 
per acre. 
