Show PRODUCING PIGS FOR THE MARKET young animals that gain rapidly in weight make greatest profit for breeder KEEP RUNNING TO CAPACITY first opportunity to force them Is when aney are few day old pen pan should be ar ranged for them prepared uy y the united states department of agriculture it Is of the greatest importance in producing pigs for the market that they kaan in weight as rapidly as pos sible the modern modem hog Is a highly specialized and efficient machine for the conversion of grain and roughage into edible meat but to obtain the greatest efficiency to make the most pork from a given amount of 0 feed to make the best pork and to make that pork most economically the machine must be kept running to capacity from froin birth to the time of marketing nothing Is more important than this anc tor for the question of breeding the lind kind of feeds fed and the proportion of the protein to the fattening elements in the ration are all important and are all means to the same some end but if the greatest profit Is to be returned to the feeder his pigs must make maximum gains at all times the first opportunity to force the pigs comes m when hen they are a few weeks old up to this thi time they have been living solely on their dams dam s milk in tact fact there Is no successful av substitute f A A good sized profitable litter as has been demonsy demonstrated grated by repeated failures to raise naly born pigs on cows milk the milk of the sow Is much richer in protein fat and ash than Is cows milk and the latter makes such a poor substitute that pigs under two weeks of age usually die of digestive troubles fol following loning its exclusive use after growing for three weeks the young pigs begin to have an appetite for some feed to supplement the sows bows milk and they should be fed for unless they are the strain on the sow will be a very serious one the pigs will eat from the sowa trough especially if she Is being fed on thin sloppy feeds A pen should be arranged adjoining that of ahe he dam and separated from it by a partition i with sufficient room at the bot torn tom to allow the pigs to run under in the inclosure to be used by the little pigs place a low shallow trough to contain their skim milk or mash best feeds for pigs the best feeds for pigs at this age are dairy products such as skim slam milk or buttermilk these mixed with mill feeds as shorts and even a cheap grade of flour ermith or with a meal of ground oats from which the hulls have been removed give excellent sat some feeders use the self feeder at tills this time placing it inside a creep that will mill admit the pigs to their grain at all times this Is best adapted for pigs after six weeks old where there Is a lack of skim milk and they must be prepared for the period foll following oming weaning without this fed |