. Biggle swine book. Swine. [from old catalog]. Chapter XIII. WESTERN " There is a tax on the dog but none on the sow.^^ Methods in the West differ somewhat as to circumstances and surroundings. The plan pursued by the great masses of western farmers is to have the pigs far- rowed in March or April; feed both sows ' and litters together till weaning time. During this time, both sow and litter have free access to a clover pasture, if possible, or in the absence of clover, blue grass pasture will answer very well. At weaning time the sows are taken away and the pigs are left in
. Biggle swine book. Swine. [from old catalog]. Chapter XIII. WESTERN " There is a tax on the dog but none on the sow.^^ Methods in the West differ somewhat as to circumstances and surroundings. The plan pursued by the great masses of western farmers is to have the pigs far- rowed in March or April; feed both sows ' and litters together till weaning time. During this time, both sow and litter have free access to a clover pasture, if possible, or in the absence of clover, blue grass pasture will answer very well. At weaning time the sows are taken away and the pigs are left in their accus- tomed quarters, and if they have been taught to eat corn and other kmds of feed, they will scarcely notice the absence of the sow, and will continue to thrive. They are now liberally fed on corn and allowed the run of the pasture as before. The more careful and progressive farmers feed slops made from mid- dlings, but by far the greater number feed nothing but corn and grass. This does very well as long as the grass lasts, but when the fall and winter season comes on, and the hog is compelled to subsist entirely on corn, it is no great wonder that he fails to make the return for the feed consumed that he Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, Wilmer Atkinson co.
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