| Show TON LITTERS MAKE profitable PORK best returns on pigs when fed to full capacity producing a ton utter of hogs meaning a single litter watch will weigh a total of 2 pounds or more when ISO days old Is more than a merely spectacular stunt which en titles its performer to membership la nn agricultural honor clib and may cost him more money than it brings in raising Is profitable according to testimony of men who hare raised them and who are now members of the ohio ton litter honor club sponsored by the agricultural extension service 0 the ohio state university here these men 1 ave reported to J W het swine specialist in the department of animal husbandry that their ton litters have been tl e most profitable bogs ever produced on their farms ahe reason Is that the principles of producing ton litters are the saraa as these of producing pork profitably in any amount says for one thing it takes a large number 0 pigs in the litter to witch a tun and our records show that the cost of pro ducting pounds of pork d on atie number of pigs marketed per in the second place pigs which gain most rapidly make their gains on the smallest amount of feed time and labor hogs are pork producing machines and like other operate most efficiently and economically no when operating at full ca and it fed to capacity for the most rapid gains they reach the market at a more advantageous time than if they were given a limited ra alon and toofe more time to get ready for market prevent bone disease by feeding minerals the mineral substances emch go into bone consist largely of corn pounds of alrae and phosphorus derived from the food in any case they are primarily derived from the soil writes dr L an eg in the cappers farmer to some regions the soil Is poor in lime and the it supports may not provide live stock with a sufficient quantity or the mistake may be made of selecting feeds poor in bone building materials in both cases animals may come to suffer from bone softening because there al ways Is an expenditure of the lime phosphorus complex evidence tanda to building materials the animal body must be exposed to direct sunshine when sunshine 1 lacking or when the min brals are deficient the bone 1 anad formed or it eventually such diseases as leg weak ness in chickens and paralysis in and abe loin disease in cattle are traceable to these factors animals should be so fed and kept that bone disease may be avoided if the natural foodstuffs are deficient supplementary feeds such ao milk or milk by products or a small amount of stemmed bon emeal must be added to the direct sunshine usually Is not difficult to procure but when it Is recourse should be had to oil especially for oung animals kept indoors centers for external parasites in old lots while in continuous use old hog lots and houses may become centers for external parasites such as lice and mange mites and more death dealing microscopic organisms those that cause pig diseases such as scurvy lecours infectious nasal catarrh bron caltis infectious odema swine pest undesirable to wound infer alons eczema or the skin nose stomach and intestines and various types af pneumonia besides all aliese troubles there are the ever present round worm eggs hog cholera prevented by right use of serum let us not forget that hog cholera has not been entirely and completely eradicated la this country let not forgot also that the disease may be easily presented by making pigs am with the proper use of serum and virus let kaep in mind that afier the disease ga a good start in a herd of pigs there ts little that can be done to stop it while we are at it let be reminded that it costs less to immune weanling pigs than pound they are also more easily bandied feeding orphan laina if the orphan lamb cannot be to ewe it be raised sat on a boatle of course it Is better to get another ewe to adopt the lamb it possible when necessary to raise a iamb on a bottle tt will need to ba fed times a adny at first the number of may be reduced until by the time the lamb Is six weeks old three or tour times a day will bo A cren should be provided where train be kept tor the lamba |
