Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-09-30 | Page 4 | Clean Water for Swine

CLEAN WATER FOR SWINE. The value of clean water for swine rnnnot be appreciated by anyone who has not tried giving them both pure and Impure drinking water In swlne-ralslng swlne-ralslng we have come to realize thnt rapid growth on good, clean, sweet food pa) much better than raising them slowly on filthy wll! nnd garbage. The lucerne-fed hogs,ttoppcd off with grain nnd skim milk, pay better by far than any of the aw Ine raised In the pen when filth and mire make up their environments en-vironments nnd taint all their food The hog miy have a pretty good digestion, di-gestion, but It Is possible to Injure It In time. If wo continue to tted It with bad food Thit Is practically what has been done for )enrs past, nnd we have produced swine dlseises, nnd what Is probahl) less Important, Blower glowing glow-ing hogs To make the animals continue con-tinue growing In a thrifty condition we must feed them good, wholesome fmd under proper sanitary surroundings Now, wnter ln)s a most Important pnrt In the beilth of all anltmls Wo must take n certain amount of liquid Into the stomach to keep It In good condition The modern ilover-fed bog nnd eorn-fattend pig does not get ns much liquid ln his food as the old sw Ill-fed Ill-fed animal and It Is necessary to supply sup-ply the creature with witer to make up for tho deflclenc) Chan water purifies puri-fies the system anil washes out tho stomach, tending to ill itegrute and enrry away tho solid mai.er that mni accumulate In the stomach Impute, filthy vvntir iloga the system more, anl often rouses Intestinal Irritation Tho hog will npparently drink filthy wnter Just as readily na pure water, and this his led snme to think that it mnttered little whether clean or dlity drinking wnter was supplied hit It Is conlrnr) to all teachings of sanitary sc lence, nnd wo hive but to txnmlno two hogs raised on clean nnd lllthy water to sio the difference Consumers of pork nro becoming inoro critical enrh ear, anl they mn reallly detect Iho flivor of Inferior lllth-pinduccd i ork from clean, sweet, wholesome mint