Millard County Chronicle | 1911-03-09 | Page 6 | Ration for Growing Pigs

RATION FOR GROWING PIGS At Feeding Capacity of One Differs From Another It Is Impossible to Say What Is Best. t It Is impossible for anyone to say what Is the best ration for growing jilgs. The feeding capacity of one differs dif-fers from another. We have been feeding for years, yet are all the time looking and anticipating some way to produce better results. Sometimes we think we are feeding more grain than necessary, then again we think we are not feeding enough. As a rule more pigs are underfed than overfed, says the Swine Herd. We find a good ration ra-tion for developing youngsters in five pounds of O. P. oil-meal, 10 pounds of wheat bran or middlings, 15 pounds of cornmeal and one pound of salt well mixed in a barrel with milk and warm water, feeding all they will eat up clean morning and night. If you have apples, cabbage or roots feed them at noon. After they have eaten their evening slop feed them one pound of corn to each pound of live weight of pigs. Ground wheat, barley or oats can be substituted for a portion por-tion of the bran and middlings If desired. de-sired. For the brood sows we add one bushel of cut alfalfa to this mixture in winter. They eat It with a relish, but small pigs do not like the alfalfa mixture mix-ture as well. They leave a large portion por-tion of the alfalfa in the trough uneaten, un-eaten, unless it has been soaked In boiling water several hours prior to feeding.