. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. io6 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS have a good account to give of the food he has eaten. Good, thrifty growth, not fat, is wanted while he is small and young, for if growth has been secured he will fatten very ^:^y J'\ M ~mmk ffl must be kept clean, and an occasional thorough disinfecting will be desirable, not only for the trough but for the pigs as well. Clean sleep- ing quarters contribute their share to health, \igor, and rapid gains. If pasture is ava
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. io6 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS have a good account to give of the food he has eaten. Good, thrifty growth, not fat, is wanted while he is small and young, for if growth has been secured he will fatten very ^:^y J'\ M ~mmk ffl must be kept clean, and an occasional thorough disinfecting will be desirable, not only for the trough but for the pigs as well. Clean sleep- ing quarters contribute their share to health, \igor, and rapid gains. If pasture is available, turn the mother and her young into it ; little of any kind of food other than good pasture grass will be needed. The writer has followed a plan for grazing hogs that has proved very successful. Eight one-half acre lots are provided, the lots being three rods in width and correspondingly long. In August one lot is seeded to rye, which makes good winter grazing ; in September the second lot is seeded to r}'e, which also makes good winter grazing ; in October the remaining lots are seeded to rye for spring grazing. The first rye lot is succeeded by cowpeas, planted as siioir as spring will permit, and then through the spring and early summer the other lots follow on in rapid succession with cowpeas. B\' tliis s)'stem wmter, s])ring, and summer grazing are available, and [provided \\'ith little labor, trf)uble, or expense. The great point in the management of young pigs is to keep them growing from the da)- of birth to the day they are slaughtered FeKUIXG t'lGS quickly and on a small amount of food. The mistake is often made of feeding an exclusi\'e ration of corn. Corn is heating and fattening in effect, and until he has left pighood days corn is an improper food to gi\e him, es]3e- cially as an exclusive diet. In his early days protein, the muscle maker, should enter largely into his diet. When given the freedom of the pasture or clover field this important food element i
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