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Show FEED SOW AND YOUNG PIGS Little Animal Should Be Fed So as to Cain From Half Pound to Pound Every Day. (ny a. J. ftpRitrtr.) At farrowing time the sow should be fed nothing but very thin slop for the first . 24 hours snd only very slightly for several days. At the end of a week the ration should be rap-Idly rap-Idly Increased and should consist of such milk producing foods as shorts, bran, ground peas, milk, etc. From then on while suckling her pigs, the sow should bo fed heavily. It has been found ery profitable to feed sows so heavily that they gained In ' Wooden Trough. weight. The gain thus produced In the young pigs Indirectly through the sow, was cheap and more economical that lateral gains. When the pigs ae two or three weeks old they will begin to take food given them from a aepnrate trough made but a few Inches deep. Skim milk or a thin porridge of middlings Is gr?atly relished at this time. As soon as they begin to eat freely they should be crowded with feed, since the most economical gains In the llfo of the pigs aro made at this time. Pigs should be fed so as to gain In weight from one-half pound to a pound a day from the time, they are three weeks old until they are marketed. Young growing pigs should have plenty of green pasture, pure water And grain. The old method of allow-Inn allow-Inn pigs to grow for a year on pasture or In wood lots without other feed Is expensive and not now practiced by those who make a success In growing grow-ing hogs for pork. On pasture a.sne hogs make too slow gains for profit, and cannot be brought to a marketable market-able condition. Pigs at pasture, however, how-ever, make the best use of the grain fed to them. Some of the best green feeds for hogs are alfalfa, clover, rape, cow peas, peanuts, artichokes and sweet pota-1 pota-1 toes. Hogs are wasteful rrp" r iT? : the fields of pasture crops should be ' arranged with movable fences lu such ' a manner that llie hogs can pasture 1 only on a small portion at a time. A I W...,r-J I- ,.zl....... Portable Fence. 1 succession of crops should be grown ' so that the hogs will have continuous ' pasture throughout tho season. ' When young nursing pigs begin to scour, It Is evident that tho milk of the sow Is disagreeing with them and Immediate attention therefore should e be directed toward Improving her p ration. Most often the trouble comes " from over feeding on corn, or other '' rich food. Just after farrowing, and 1 pigs of fat, flabby, pampered, rross, '' nervous, constipated sows, are most y apt to suffer. Sudden changes of food, or feeding sour or decomposing slop, or food from dirty troughs, or ' sour a 111 barrels, also tend to cause diarrhoea either In nursing pigs or those that have been weaned, and all such causes should be prevented or removed. ' To correct scouring In nursing pigs, give the sow 15 to 2D grains sulphate " of Iron (copperas) In her slop night and morning ami If necessary slightly Increase ie doses until effective. A portable fence with support to be r used for enclosing temporary quarters and lots Is Illustrated, The suport should be securely nailed to stakes ' driven Into the ground on each side. |