192 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Mar., 1900: 
FEEDING THE PIG. 
FEEDING THE PIG FOR PORK. 4 
What is a complete food for the pig, and will it pay to feed some wheat 
even when wheat is pretty high in price? If wheat is fed with cornmeal, i” 
results are highly satisfactory. Bran, because of its character of compositil’ | 
is not a wholly desirable feed for pigs. Middlings may be fed with profit ® 
any time during the hog’s life. They are not only rich in protein and ash, DU 
are what may be called a clean, smooth food, being free from the objection ; 
crude fibre which so prominently distinguishes bran. Barley is an excellel! 
food, and will enable such sections as Northern Dakota and Montana to produ 
some of the best pork in the world. In these and other sections like the 
barley and peas will make pork production profitable, if given the opportu! fF 
Peas, as all understand, are a highly nitrogenous food, and when dry sho 
always be fed with some other grain. ’ 
There are some who do not appreciate the value of clover hay for swité 
Tt is to be regretted that such appreciatiou is not universal. It is not. onl} 
valuable because of its high merit as a feed, but because of the bulk it furnishe | 
No growing animal should be fed exclusively upon the grains. Swine will 
dry clover hay with a relish, but the better way to feed it is to cut it up, stem | 
it or pour hot water on it, and mix with meal. Pasture, if it is the right kw® 
of pasture, is nearly an essential in profitable swine-raising. It should be clove 
pasture ; but if it is not, it must be composed of short and tender grass. 
FEEDING THE BROOD SOW. 
In the paper on this subject in the Live Stock Journal of 8rd Novemb® 
(says a well-known Australian breeder), whichis taken from an American soul! t 
advice is tendered which my own past experience would make me very careful 2? 
to take. In the first place, mangels are recommended to feed the in-pig 5? 
on, while I have known numerous cases where these roots, excellent f00 
they may be at other times, have acted in the most deleterious manner upov ! 
unborn litter, which, though born alive, have all died within an hour or OF 
after birth, and this has occurred both in my own herd and in that of othet* 
haye known, ‘Then there is the recommendation to supply the young pigs 4 
fortnight old with new milk so as to assist their mother to rear them. N: ows 
cow’s new milk with just a small portion of sugar and a drop or two of oil—@ 
liver for choice—will rear a young pig deprived of its dam, and often tbe 
pigs so fed grow faster than those left to the care of the sow, but a mist 
of food composed of two kinds of milk is always bad. In pigs, when V@ 
young, it is almost invariably followed by acute diarrhoea, and it is a well-kn0 Ff, 
fact that, however, well either pigs or children will do upon cow’s milk alo™ 
when judiciously given, they never thrive so well when it is given as an ad jun 
to their mother’s milk. A little corn, such as crushed oats, and, later, crushe 
Indian corn, is the best food for young sucking pigs till they begin to eat W! 
their dam, when, if her food is of a milky nature, they may take it witho? 
harm. The advantages of letting sows, especially Berkshire and kindred. breé 5 
run out to grass, is well worth remembering as an excellent practice. 
FEED ON RIGHT LINES. No 
Tt is not enough to select well. Ieeding is as important as selection. ~ 
matter how good the stock may be, if the young sows are not fed all they Ls, 
to eat from birth until farrowing time, they will be poor milkers. It is impossiP 
to develop a roomy sow with milking capacity without feeding largely ° 
albuminous foods. The proper frame, bone, and form can be developed on 8%, 
pasture combined with foods in which oats, bran, and milk are predomina) 
with plenty of exercise for muscular development, and they can be obtaine 
their highest form in no other way. The short, compact brood sow, pretty ay 
picture, is not the one to yield a profit in the breeding herd. Plenty of ei: 
food will develop her beauty, because it will develop her fat; but fat a»! 
high degree of fruitfulness or fecundity are incompatible. 
