Show PERFECT WEIGHT FOR MARKET HOG ask alie er and hell probably pay that around pounds la the ideal weight or a market hog J W extension in husbandry at the ohio beato university imports this in a new 48 page bulletin I 1 ork I 1 in ohio recently olt the pres ut col and available for distribution A suney of ohio ers hns shown that almost V per cent ut the liggs desired ringed lu from ISO to pounds and more than 40 per cent are wanted between the weight of ISO and pounds this would indicate that alie most deser able weight from alie pickers stand point Is the hug weighing close to 00 pounds tills Is probably the m st desirable weight at which to mirl tet from alie standpoint of the producer as well as the hogs marketed at weights much less than pounds lauie in most caes more per pound of gala be cause of alie higher priced feeds necessary for the early development so that the cost of bringing the pig up to weaning Is distributed over a less number of pounds on the other hand to tarry them much above pounds will increase the cost per pound of gain because as the hog gets larger and particularly as he approaches maturity it requires more feed to put on each additional pound of gain complaint is sometimes made thit the packers do not seem to buy many of the hogs from the territory adjacent to the packing house but prefer to buy them elsewhere the answer almost invariably Is that the hogs being produced in that territory are not of the kind the picker can j use to best advantage and he Is therefore forced to seek elsewhere for his supply A little inquiry or study on the part of the producer to the demands of the local packer and then meet them will generally result in a more satisfactory sale and purchase of hogs locally to make a long story short produce what the market wants and there will be little trouble tn find ing a satisfactory market no big advantage in warm water for hogs the missouri experiment station has conducted trials to determine the value of beating the drinking water for hogs which are on winter feed these experiments were with fall alga fed during the winter there were a large number of different combinations such as warm drinking water and warm feed cold drinking water and warm feed cold feed and cold water cold water and cooked feed cold feed and warm water etc these experiments peri ments did not show any addan tage for warming either water or feed or for cooking feed it Is of course important that fattening hogs or hogs of any kind have all the water which they need to drink sometimes the warming of water might help in this respect but if a reasonable amount of care Is taken to see that the boss have a chance to drink cold water not ice we believe that ordinarily dina rily it will not pay to go to the trouble to heat the water soy beans fed cattle take place of soy beans will take the place of oil meal lu the ration fr steers in the feed lot from two to three of soy beans can be fed to a 1000 pound steer per day soy beans are very laxative and it the bowels become too loose the amount of soy beans fed should be reduced in feeding experiments it has been found that steers will bacome tired of soy beans quicker than of on account of the hard nature of soy beans the should always be ground when fed to you could mix just enough corn with soy beans so that you cm readily grind them the oily of the beans makes it difficult to grind then the n alone live stock notes gnp of the important of well bred animals Is the with which they gain and the with which they are ready toa 1 ket production costs are lowered both where a farmer feeds much stock about alie lots and barns in the win there Is nothing that will serve to clean up the odds and ends and prevent the winte of feed than a bunch of hungry fall pigs bogs contract avlan through eating dead hens and feed by droppings of birds steers fed nt south doroti state college hive mide larger pains on a corn salape plus alfalfa britlon than on corn olliee ilone do not select breeding stock from BOWS which have produced one or more Ingul nally pig tha game reasons apply here agthe case of the male if T |