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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Questions About Pigs and Hogs 
Will you tell me the best grain to fat¬ 
ten hogs and the price of four-weeks 
crossbred pigs? r. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
A combination of 90 lbs. of corn and 
10 lbs. of digester tankage makes an ex¬ 
cellent feed for fattening hogs. If the 
pigs are confined in a dry yard, then it is 
necessary to feed some mineral mixture 
in addition to the concentrates. Equal 
parts of salt and ground limestone will 
serve this purpose. If you have skim- 
milk, the tankage can be reduced to 5 per 
cent. If the pigs weigh less than 75 lbs. 
it would be well to use a mixture consist¬ 
ing of TO lbs. of cornme&l, 20 lbs. Red- 
dog flour, 10 lbs. tankage. Rolled corn is 
quite as useful as cornmeal for pigs 
weighing 100 lbs. In this instance some 
middlings should be mixed with the tank¬ 
age, and it should be supplied in the form 
of a thick slop. The corn can be fed dry, 
than have been well-grown and that have 
reached good size at this age. It is never 
a safe practice to breed a cow which is 
undersized or that has failed to grow and 
develop normally. 
For young calves out of good producing 
dams it is well to let them run with the 
cow for the first three days, then they, can 
be fed on new milk for the next six 
weeks, and then gradually changed from 
new milk to skim milk. It is well to 
continue the feeding of skim milk until 
the calves are 10 months old for this gives 
them a good start. Feed some grain, and 
there is nothing any better than the dry- 
cow mixture that is proposed, fed in con¬ 
junction with skim milk. They should 
.be given some Alfalfa or clover hay during 
their growing period. The chances are 
that they will develop and form a herd 
of milking cows that will prove profitable. 
Cows at calving time should be given 
the liberty of a box stall that has been 
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Never get the idea that all the big hogs are grown “out West.” We have some 
good ones in the East. The picture shows Mr. C. A. Rideman with two big Poland 
Chinas. These hogs were 16 months old at butchering and they weighed 615 and 
595 lbs. respectfully. Some pork there surely. 
or it can be moistened and fed in a thick 
slop approaching the consistency of but¬ 
termilk. 
It is undesirable to purchase pigs four 
weeks old, because at this age they are 
not old enough to wean. It is better to 
let the pigs run with the sow until they 
are seven or eight weeks old, and then 
they will bring from $3 to $5 a pair, de¬ 
pending, of course, upon the age, size 
and section of the country. 
Care of Cows and Heifers 
We have eight cows, plenty of corn and 
hay but no silage. What kind of grain 
should we use? We have six heifers of 
various ages. When should they be bred, 
and how fed, Winter and Summer? 
Tunkhannock, Pa. S. K. 
It seems to me that under the condi¬ 
tions you have described it would be well 
for you to secure some grade of feed that 
carries 24 per cent of protein and use this 
as a basis for feeding your cows; 70 lbs. 
of this prepared feed mixed with 30 lbs. 
of corn which you have at your farm 
would give you a simplified mixture. On 
the other hand, if you desire to home-mix 
your ingredients, the following ration for 
cows in milk is proposed : 200 lbs. bran, 
200 lbs. linseed meal, 200 lbs. gluten feed, 
200 lbs. hominy or corn meal, 100 lbs. 
buckwheat middlings. 
For the young stock and all of the dry 
cow T s a mixture consisting of 300 lbs. bran, 
300 lbs. ground oats, 200 lbs. cornmeal, 
100 lbs. oilmeal will give good results. 
Feed the cows one lb. of grain for each 
3 y 2 lbs. of milk produced per day. The 
dry cows and the young stock should be 
fed enough of the grain to keep them in 
vigorous and good condition. The best 
time for a cow to gain ini flesh is during 
her dry period, and it is a mistake to 
slacken up on her feed and give her a 
ration of roughage during this period. 
Heifers, when they are well-grown, 
may be mated when they are 18 months 
old, so they will have their first calf when 
they are about! two and a half years old. 
This, of course, applies only to heifers 
heavily bedded and they should be blank¬ 
eted in order to avoid complications. Dur¬ 
ing this period it is well to give them 
water from which the chill has been 
removed rather than ice-cold water from 
the tank. There is nothing any better 
for a cow during this period than a hot 
bran-mash, made by pouring eight quarts 
of scalding w’ater over three quarts of 
bran. Cows will devour this readily and 
it will serve as a stimulant and aid in 
reducing congestion or inflammation of 
the udder. 
Feeding Apples; Cow Sucks Herself 
Can you tell me of any way to break 
a cow from milking herself? She started 
to do it last Spring when she was fresh. 
It was her third calf and she never did 
it before. We tried all kinds of muzzles on 
her, and she could get around all of them. 
Will feeding cows apples in the Fall dry 
■them up? I fed them last Fall and the 
cows nearly went dry, and they got little 
sores on their teats. Some people said it 
was the apples and some said the apples 
would not hurt them, but would do them 
good. m. B. 
Maryland. 
A ration limited to apples would not 
enable cows to produce milk profitably. 
It would be very apt to have the effect of 
drying up the cows in accordance with the 
experience you have related. If apples 
are fed in conjunction with the grain 
ration then they will stimulate the appe¬ 
tite and increase the flow of milk. 
The only sure way I know of to cure a 
cow that sucks herself is to send her to 
the butcher for slaughter. Various con¬ 
trivances have been devised and put on 
the market which are claimed to control 
this habit, but it is seldom that they 
serve this purpose. Of course the cow 
can be confined in a stanchion during the 
Winter and milk can be saved ; but any 
device that would prevent her from milk¬ 
ing herself would likewise prevent her 
from grazing. So, unless the cow is an 
exceptionally good individual I am sure 
that I would replace her with a cow which 
has not developed this unfortunate habit. 
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