RAISING HOGS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1461, 20 January 1887, Page 3

RAISING HOGS.

An authority on swine-raising say* that while the administering of mediolne to swine ehonld be made with the greatest caution, yet on Recount of their liability to disease, farmers ahoald know something of their tllraenfa and B"foh remedies as have been proved efficacious by experience Many of the diseases of awi- c a c con'agloun, and when a pig is found to be : sick it Bhould be removed to a pan by itself and the"c receive treatment It is well to oonsider a casj of sickness as a aure md cation tha* B->me*hing is wrong m the general management. In swine many fatil diseases are preceded by a cough and difficulty la b r eath ; nsf, which tray not neoeß»a ily Imply a cold. This happens frequently and may prove 'o be a simple d'so'der that »'1 ! 1 remedy itself or it may prove, to be a symptom of come perhapi fatal disease. If tho patient has been confiaad m a damp, unhealthy pen or yard, removal to more whole»om» quartern may effect a cure. If the f^ori hca been less carefully prepared a litt'e Attention m this matter may remedy the trouble Gra-ting the conditions all favorable, and an apparen lp healthy and thrifty pig la found suffering m tho manner described, administer a powder consisting of two drachms each of Eps^m salts and Bulphnrin a pint of fresh milk and fo'.low the dose w'th a m°al of soaked oatß, which will aUevlate the cough rb well as estHblish a more perfect working of the digestive organ?. The hog is a grass-eating animal by nature, and its health is therefore promoted by the use of grass as a part of it) food The grass gives bulk and porousness tn th« contents of the stomach, end thus aids digestion. If the hogs are to be pushed m fattening, finishing them off m the fall, then th«y mny be kppt m a dry ppn or yard, nnd the green, succulent eras* brought to them every day and given m three small feeds, In small racks over the troughs. In this way they will not get much under foot, and what falls out of thfr raok will drop into the tr- ugh. Some yeorH since we fou"d the best plan m feeding hojya wUh clover m a pen was tp run through a straw-cutter, and then feed two qunrlß of the out clover, mixed with its ration of meal, to each hoi? three times a day. We adopted the cutting of the [ olover m the morning, and mixing t*o proportion of meal with it that we des'red the hngs to eat per day, and letting it lie In bulk through the day. It would then become m'ngled that the grass and meal would be eaten together, It would warm up some, but not etiough to injure its quality, ''he hogs were extremely fond pf It and gaiced m weight from twelve to 8 teen pouada each per week. We were seeding for rapid growth daring the summer and fed six pound #f corn meal to ench pig, with the olorer per day. The result was quiet nXM»iatoiJi*~National fiiVQ StQoh Journal,