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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 23, 1921 
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Sectional View 
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Questions About Hogs 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Growing and Fattening Pigs 
Will you advise me as to the best pos¬ 
sible ration for forcing a growth and 
fattening Ohio Improved Chester White 
barrows from weaning at eight weeks of 
age to slaughtering at 36 weeks? My 
best registered sow farrowed 12 pigs two 
days ago. My neighbor’s sow, registered 
Berkshire, farrowed eight on the same 
day. A friendly argument ended in a bet 
that on the day of slaughtering. 36 
weeks from farrowing, my best four bar- 
; rows would outweigh his or vice-versa 
and the barrows themselves are at stake. 
From a good business viewpoint, I can¬ 
not afford to lose. I will spare neither 
cost nor effort to achieve the desired re¬ 
sult. Will you make out a balanced ra¬ 
tion and advise me as to the questions 
that follow? 
1. Judging from average, how much, 
how often and how would you feed? 2. 
What can I substitute, if any, for milk, 
when I have it? 3. Would sunflower 
seed be of any value to a growing barrow? 
4. How will I vary the rations from two 
10-week growing periods after weaning to 
final eight weeks fattening? 5. How 
would you supply lime, charcoal, sulphur, 
salt, calcium phosphate, and hard wood 
ashes? Do I need to supply the last 
mentioned with the rest? 6. Would you 
advise the use of a stock tonic? 7. How 
much should 1 my barrows weigh for an 
average when dressed at 36 weeks? Can 
| you offer any suggestions that would bene¬ 
fit me? it. D. 
Maine. 
To begin with make sure that the 
brood sow nursing these youngsters is 
well-fed and well-nourished. Nothing 
equals mother’s milk for starting the 
youngsters on their profitable growing 
and feeding pilgrimage. After the pigs 
ar.e three weeks old give the brood sow all 
the grain that she will clean up with 
relish three times a day. It would be 
even better to install a self-feeder, one 
that would enable her to make her own 
choice of dry feeds; then, too, the young¬ 
sters would' have access to clean palatable 
feeds and would mimic their mother and 
be willing patrons of the free choice sys¬ 
tem. I should put in the hoppers of the 
self-feeders in separate apartments, corn- 
meal, digester tankage, standard mid¬ 
dlings, ground oats and corn germ meal. 
If I mixed any of these products together. 
I would take six parts of the corn germ- 
meal and four parts of digester tankage 
and let this combination provide the nec¬ 
essary protein. If yellow hominy was 
cheaper than oornmeal, I would use this 
material. Skim-milk might profitably 
supplement this combination of feedis. 
Steamed or dry Alfalfa leaves are always 
appetizing and provide a bulk basis tlmt 
is highly digestible and palatable. Where 
two or three pounds of milk are fed in 
conjunction with each pound of grain 
consumed, the greatest gains are. possible. 
I should wean the pigs when they are 
nine or ten weeks old. I should castrate 
the hoars when they are four weeks old. 
I should let the pigs have access to the 
self-feeder until they are 12 or 14 weeks, 
old. Then, in case I could get them onj 
on some grain forage, such as clover ry 
rape or combination mixtures of oats, 
barley, rape and clover, I should grad¬ 
ually reduce the grain in order to pernnl 
them to forage more vigorously which 
would have a tendency to induce more 
exercise, invite more stretch and growth 
and a more sturdy frame to he covered 
with flesh later on. 
1 should limit the grain ration to 
three pounds per day for each one hun¬ 
dred pounds of live weight, although dur¬ 
ing this period. I should tickle their pal¬ 
ates with all the skim-milk that I could 
spare from the housewife’s kitchen. I 
would keep them growing and gainin'; 
every day of their lives although I should- 
not permit them to become fat and’ lazy 
during their early life. I should keep 
before the pigs at all times a combina¬ 
tion mixture of bone meal, charcoal, wood 
ashes, sulphur, salt, ground limestone 
and bi-carbonate of soda. I would make 
sure that they were kept free from lice 
and parasites. I should use the ma¬ 
terials first identified in varying propor¬ 
tions and in varying amounts, likewise 
keeping the pigs’ appetite on edge and 
never over-indulging him. Clean troughs 
or feeders, with plenty of fresh water 
always available, are necessary adjuncts. 
1. If hand fed. four times a day until 
weaned. If self-fed, they will do the job 
themselves and make their own selections. 
2. Digester tankage, or let us say equal 
parts of digester tankage, peanut meal 
and corn germ meal, will replace skim- 
milk. It is not necessary to use more 
than 10 per cent of these concentrated 
products and if milk is used in conjunc¬ 
tion with the tankage, peanut and corn 
germ meal combination, the best results 
will follow. If you cannot get skim-milk 
and want to use some of the dried milk 
substitutes they frequently correct de- 
ficiencies, although, they seldom pay their 
cost in actual gains. 
3. No. Sunflower .seed may he all 
right for poultry, hut it has little virtue 
for pigs. 
4. If self-feeders are used, the pigs will 
j select their own ingredients and the cor- 
! l’cct proportions of same. If you feed 
them by hand you must exercise common 
sense in combining the products and vary¬ 
ing them as occasion demands. Sudden 
changes should he avoided and unless a 
mixture is propounded that given results 
it should not frequently be changed. In¬ 
digestion results from over-feeding or from 
sudden changes in the daily ration. 
5. These materials should not be mixed 
with the feed, but rather supplied by 
means of a hopper or in convenient boxes 
protected from the elements. I should 
mix the ingredients mentioned together 
in about equal proportions ami let tin* 
pig exercise his own judgment as to 
amount necessary to correct deficiencies. 
6. No. If a pig is sick, consult a vet¬ 
erinarian, but do not resort to condi¬ 
ments. 
7. From 275 to 340 lbs. live weight. 
When the barrows reach a weight vary¬ 
ing from 100 to 125 lbs. I should increase 
the grain ration slightly, always remem¬ 
bering that you must have the frame be¬ 
fore you can obtain the flesh, otherwise 
there would he no place for the flesh. 
After the frame is once established and 
you are ready to finish, confine his daily 
ration to cornmeal or shell corn, digester 
tankare or combination referred to and 
skim-milk. 
With reference to the tables aud prod¬ 
ucts that you have identified, let me say 
that you have omitted several ingredients 
that I believe to be necessary and in- 
eluded a number of products that are 
non-essential. I do not like bran in a 
ration for pigs. It. is constipating, not 
easily digested and too expensive. Buf¬ 
falo gluten is. not suited for swine feed¬ 
ing.. Barley is about an equal to corn in 
feeding value, although not quite as pal¬ 
atable for pigs. Oil cake meal can be 
used in an emergency although it is 
rather laxative. Oats should be sieved 
and the coarser hulls and high fibre ma¬ 
terial. removed. I would scrap all the 
fish junk on general principles. Blood 
meal is rather concentrated and is not. 
necessary where tankage and germ meal 
is provided. Coarse beef scraps should 
he fed to the poultry rather than to pigs. 
They contain considerable cracklings and 
are usually more expensive per unit of 
protein supplied than is tankage. Use in 
every instance the better grade of oat 
middlings. Oat feed, on account of ito 
high fibre contribution is ill-suited for 
use in feeding young, growing pigs. The 
finely ground material providing it con¬ 
sists of the groats and is free of hulls, 
makes splendid hog feed. When the 
feeding season approaches in the Fall, 
accustom the pigs to green corn or soft 
corn gradually. Start in by using green 
stock in its entirety, and gradually lead 
them up by increasing the amount fed 
each day until you can get them on a 
full ration of new corn. Always feed 
some concentrated protein carrying ma¬ 
terial in conjunction with corn, either 
old or new. Clover hay is well suited for 
feeding brood sows during the Winter 
mouths, but there would be no advantage; 
in supplying this t<> growing or stock bar- 
rows. Apples have very little feeding 
value since they are bulky, carry a high 
percentage e>f water and yield compara¬ 
tively small amounts of digestible nu¬ 
trients. Tt is well to change from corn 
meal to shell corn at frequent intervals if 
it is found that the pigs prefer the shelled 
corn to the cornmeal. This is particu¬ 
larly true during hot weather, when the 
meal on account of the oil and fat present 
is apt to become heated or rancid. 
Shelled corn that is soaked for 12 hours 
before feeding, is sometimes highly rel¬ 
ished by the hogs on full feed. It gives 
them a change. The water that the corn 
has been soaked in should ho drained off 
before the corn is placed in the trough. 
Provide an abundance of shade for fat 
harrows. They cannot gain persistently 
if unprotected from the direct rays of a 
scorching sun. If at any time during the 
season your pigs do not apparently re¬ 
spond or gain as rapidly as you think they 
ought to, advise us as to conditions and 
we will write you further. The pigs 
should gain at least a pound a day and 
more than this if they are properly fed 
and cared for. We have suggested live 
weights. The conversion figure for 
dressed weight is arrived at by multiply¬ 
ing the live weight by 75 or 80 per cent. 
TIogs will dress off about 20 per cent, al¬ 
though this figure varies with age ami 
degree of fatness. 
Uncontrolled Bull 
I have eight cows, four heifers, all reg¬ 
istered Jerseys. My neighbor’s scrub bull 
broke into my pasture and got two of 
my heifers with calf. Can I collect dam¬ 
age? s. c. 
New York. 
If your neighbor’s bull broke into your 
pasture and did damage by reason of a 
defect in the fence, which defect was 
caused by your neglect to keep the same 
in repair, you cannot recover, but if it 
broke through the fence by reason of your 
neighbor’s neglect, you probably can re¬ 
cover the amount of damages which you 
sustained. The damage, of course, would 
be somewhat speculative aud difficult to 
prove. N, T- 
