Show FALL PIGS EXACT BEST management should run on forage after weaning to get start fall piss should be given a chance to run on forage crops for a time after weaning says the animal husbandry department of the ohio state university this practice will give them a better start for the long win ter months rail pigs demand the best of attention to feeding and handling if they are to be profitable to the grower I 1 during the growing and fattening periods concentrates fed to the alga should be of high energy value with some protein supplement or a bombl nation of protein supplements corn probably Is the best feed from the point of energy value but must be bi lanced with high protein foods salm milk and buttermilk both of them high in protein and mineral mat tir are good to balance groins two and one halt to three pounds of milk should be fed with one pound of corn for fa pound pigs As the animals grow the proportion of milk may be decreased if fish meal alfalfa meal or meal should be fed where milk Is not available A combination of 60 per cent elsh meal or 25 per cent alfalfa meal and 25 per cent oil meal has been successfully with corn or other feed to start the pigs about 15 to 20 per cent of the protein supplement should be fed in the beginning and gradually decreased until at the finishing period only about 5 per cent is fed tried bows sows found most profitable as bleeders breeders Bre eders old bows sows may be more profitable than gilts for next springs crop of pigs says E F ferran of the animal husbandry department at university I 1 arm the spring pigs grown this year have had very scanty grain allow ances consequently most of the gilts are small and undersized he says these gilts are more miniature and undeveloped than during ordinary seasons the utters from gilts such as these are apt to be disappointing next spring on some farms there are thin bows sows still in the prime of breeding efficiency that have not yet been fattened for market because of the scarcity of grain during the summer these bows sows will yield a good profit it bred to far row next spring providing they take the place of the undersized gilts the bows sows can be bred to farrow earlier than the gilts and accordingly late furrowing farrowing far rowing of boxt years crop can be avoided A yearling or two year old sow will farrow and raise more pigs than a gilt because she Is a selected brood sow there Is always nn uncertainty as to how a gilt will suckle her litter while the old bows sows which have been disappointing go to market on the average from one and one half to two pigs more per litter can be raised to weaning ae from tried bows sows than from gilts frequent attention Is needed by self feeder one advantage of the self feeder Is that it will probably save some labor but the amount of labor saved depends somewhat on the alza and type of the feeder A small feeder requires frequent filling and practically all feeders require considerable attention to see that the feed la feeding down properly frequent attention should be given to see that feed la not being nosed out and wasted and that it the feeds are in separate corn apartments part ments the bogs are not eating too much of the protein feeds and pot enough of the others or vice versa Himm mN j liv live e stock notes j A shade for the hogs pays cattle given free access to corn silage and alfalfa allu balance their own rations the greatest mistake in feeding orphan b lambs Is in reeding too much and too often nothing will solve as many problems of the pork producer as wilt plenty of good pasture many stockmen stoc kmen fall to balance their rations because they feel it necessary to feed what they have at hand where pastures supplement grain rations for hogg A saving in concentrate toed Is made the ration Is am proved from a dietetic angle falness Is promoted and the hog Is brought to a marketable age at a lower cost than where grain feeding in pen or dry lot v Onro any farms a small flock of sheep should bo profitable it does not cost a great deal in either money or labor to keep n flock of cheep and there ls a double return from them la the form of mutton and wool |