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Show BEST FOOD FOR BROOD SOWS Skimmed Milk Mixed With Wheat Bran or Ground Oats Is Excellent Ration for Shoats. The best food for brood sows is skimmed milk mixed with wheat bran or ground oats. Boiled roots mixed with wheat bran and wheat middlings is a healthy and economical food. The brood sow should be kept in good condition, but not fat. Corn is not a suitable food; a few ears of corn may be fed after the slop is eaten, if the sow is thin. A small grass pasture pas-ture should adjoin the pens; let them have the use of this pasture every suitable day; she needs exercise. Well-cured clover hay, cut fine and mixed In the millfeed slop, will reduce t- grain ration. See Chat the pens are clean and dry; give a warm bed of straw or leaves leaves make ths best bed for pigs. The hogs should not be kept in dirty yards or allowed to run in the yard with stock. Never let the hogs burrow in the ' fermenting manure, as it is certain to give them lung disease and skin disease. If the hogs cannot have a grass pasture they should have raw roots and freshly dug grass sods every day. Give plenty of fresh, clean water and a liberal supply of burnt wood, wood ashes and coal. The best food for shoats is equal quantities of ground oats and peas boiled and mixed with wheat bran. Give the slop luke warm in cold weather. Have feed trough clean. No rancid slop should be fed. A well-bred sow that will rear a litter of pigs and is a good mother is worth $50. Have a separate pen for each sow. Make a fender rail around the pen to prevent the sow from crushing the young pigs. Sows will farrow 16 weeks after being served. |