Show f. f SOWS NEED GOOD ATTENTION Neglect at Farrowing Time Will Eat Up All Profits Made in Year- Year Feed Is I. Important Problem By II IL M. M COTTRELL Give the sow all the water she wants for the first 24 hours after the pigs are born but no grain Take the I chill oft off the water in cold cold weather For three or four tour days das after the first 14 hours give plenty of water but feed grain and milk milk sparingly Then slowly increase until unit when the pigs are three weeks old the sow is having baring all the the feed she will wUl consume Give I the pigs exercise and sunshine from birth but do not allow them to get damp nor to be exposed to the wind I When the sow is given a warm rich slop or other milk producing milk producing feeds just after her pigs are born a strong r milk flow Is forced The newborn i pigs get too much and have diarrhea I which often kills them They cannot take all the milk and the sows sow's udder becomes inflamed and caked When the pigs suckle the pain becomes so intense that in fn desperation she jumps up kills and eats them The profits for a whole year can be thrown away away in a few hours by a little neglect at farrowing time An investigation investigation in one of ot the chief pro hog sections showed that the farm- farm s u Roughage Self Feeder for Swine Swine- Rack of This Kind la is Handy 1 and nd Prevents Waste era era rs were losing from third one-third to two two- thirds of t the pigs that were born born alive Last year year a man with 14 sows raised t to w weaning time only 15 pigs while his neighbor who used less feed but spent every hour with his sows during the farrowing time raised a average an n 00 of pigs pigs' toa litter lit litter ter from froma a large herd of ot sows |