Show PORK MAKING the secret of it som cooil alio prevailing opinion expressed by western new york carmera far mera at a recent meeting of abo farmers club at rochester was opposed to tho alj timo lico ot wintering our shoats and butchering lliam a year or 1 year and a half old alio practice favored 13 to have pigs littered in alio llio spring by old breeding bows sows ot improved breed and butchered before tho first of the next january tina tico is based on tho belief that dwino feeding pays best which keeps the animals growing rapidly from birth to butchers block one member who had practiced a method for socio twenty years explained hi system lie planned to hadaa portion of the pigs littered early in tho spring in order to have some ready to kill at ten months others acro littered in juno when cows milk is plentiful on tho fum and there is good pasture the juno lit terho kept in thriving condition the arst season aid through the winter tho next summer lie allowed them the run of pasture with milk and slops fattening in the autumn when they would in about four hundred pound tho secretary of tho club an advocate for alio tico of having pigs littered in alio spring advised feeding tho pigs for alio arat six months on clover pens and skim milk and other feed in which tho albumin predominate tho leading object during mouths being alio rapid making of and bono rather than laiying on of fat A good casturo with milk and mill feed promotes rapid growth until midsummer gleanings of the wheat stubble stub blo a crop of field peas and tho like carries them on until tho first of october when the final fattening process begins at that season thu secretary believed that no makes good solid pork faster than old cornmeal corn meal cooked whether it always pays to grind and cook tho corn is another question tho presidents had led him to that pork can bo made more rapidly on cooked barley meal than on cornmeal corn meal A member reported successful results with a feed of oats and barley mixed with cornmeal corn meal hiis observation had been that old hogs thrive better on cornmeal corn meal alone younger animals a change of food tho members agreed that tho state ot alie market is an important factor in deciding tho most limu to butcher and sell tho opinion was however very generally expressed that it does not kiy kohold alio pigs very long after extreme cold weather begins unless tho animals anro warmly housed considerable loss of llesh occurs for tho fat forming ingredients aro expended in keeping up tho vital heat NI world |