SOME PROFITABLE PISS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 695, 29 September 1909, Page 3

SOME PROFITABLE PISS.

Bixewilent RcoiiUk Obtr • n<>>l (n Six Month* liy .Judicious IVfis i njjr and Sanitary Surrounding*, Pips may he easily made to weigh 800 pounds at six months if properly fed. 1 give my experience with a litter of eight- pigs farrowed on .lime ti, hist year. The sow and pigs were allowed, the run of a la-acre grass pasture, which was kepi picked pretty close by dairy cows- They had free access to a. river ami plenty of cool shade. The sow was fed twice a day all she could eat of buttermilk, with bran stirred in till it was a thick slop, and the pigs wercallowecltocatwith her when large enough, care being taken to feed enough so that a very lit tile bit would be left in the trough when they were all full. They had. nothing else fed to them till two and a half months old. when they were taken from the sow. The milk and bran ration was-eontinueil. and one ear of corn for each pig was added-. At four monlhs of age the milk and corn were disc,ontimied. The pigs were placed in it ha-lf-aere lot and fed all they would eat clean, three limes a day, equal measure of bran ynd corn meal ground fine, mixed thoroughly and wet to make a stiff dough. At five months the pigs were placed in a floored pen. and fed one month all they could eat. three, limes a day, on a dough made of two measures of corn meal to one of bran. On the 81h of December the pigs were slaughtered. I weighed the one that looked to be the largest, after if was-kil-led, but before it bad been dressed. It weighed 2.80 pounds. 1 don’t think any one of the pigs would have weighed less than 200 pounds- on foot. They were not thoroughbred pigs, but were crossed with Yorkshire. Berkshire. t’olaral China, and perhaps some “scrub.” I believe a “thoroughbred trough” is better than a thorough bred pig. I neglected to say that these pigs had access to salt and ashes at all times; and t will add that I have never had a sick hog that had salt and ashes before it at all times, and had some bran fed to it every .day. —R. 11. Carson, in, Country Gentleman.