Show LIV LA sto PALL FALL PIGS EXACT BEST management should run on forage after weaning to get start ran full pigs should be given a chance to run on forage crops for a time after weaning says tile the animal husbandry department of the ohio st state ate university this practice will give them a better start for the long winter montha fall pigs demand the best of attention to feeding and handling if they are to be profitable to the grower during the growing and fattening periods concentrates fed to the pigs should bo be of high energy value with some protein supplement or a combination of f protein supplements corn probably Is the best beit feed from the point of energy value but must be balanced with high protein foods shim milk and buttermilk both of them high in protein and mineral matter are arc good to balance grains two and one half to three pounds of milk should be fed with one pound of corn for BO 50 pound pigs As the animals grow the proportion of milk may be decreased Tank fish meal alfalfa weal or oil meal should be fed where milk Is not available A combination of BO 50 per cent fish meal or 25 per cent alfalfa meal and 25 per cent oil benl has been successfully used with corn or other feed to start the pigs about 15 to 20 per cent of the protein supplement should be fed in tile the beginning and gradually decreased until at the flut finishing shing period only about 5 per cent Is fed tried sows bows found most profitable as breeders bleeders Bre eders old sows bows may be more profitable than gilts for next springs crop of pigs says B H F V errin of tile the animal husbandry department at university farm tile the spring pigs grown this year have had very scanty grain allowances consequently most of the gilts are small email and undersized he says these gilts are more miniature and undeveloped than during ordinary sen seasons sons the litters from gilts such ns as those these are opt apt to be disappointing next spring on sonie some farms there are thin BOWS still in tile lip prime of breeding effi efficiency clency that have not yet been fattened for market because of the scarcity of grain during the sur summer rimer these sows bows will yield a good profit it if bred to farrow next spring providing they take the place of the undersized gilts the sows bows can be bred to farrow earlier than the gilts and accordingly late farrowing furrowing far rowing of next years crop can be avoided A yearling or two year old sow will farrow and raise more pigs than a gilt because she Is a selected brood sow there Is always an uncertainty as to how a gilt will suckle her litter fitter while the old BOWS which have been disappointing go to market on the average from one and one half to two pigs more per litter can be raised to weaning age from tried sows bows than from gilts frequent attention Is needed by self feeder one nd advantage vantage of the self feeder Is that it will probably save some labor but the amount of f labor saved depends somewhat on the size and type of the f feeder C e tie r A small feeder requires frequent filling and practically all feeders require considerable attention to see that the feed la Is feeding town down property properly frequent attention should be given to soe see that feed la Is not being nosed out and wasted and that it if tire feeds are in separate co compartments M part ments tile hogs are not eating too much of the protein feeds and not enough of the others or vice versa |