COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1923
Big Loss of Pigs
Before Weaning
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Heavier in Spring Than in
Fall According to Survey
Made in Three States.
(Prepared by the United State« Department
of Agriculture.)
Losses of pigs before weening are
heavier In the spring than in the fall,
as shown In a survey just completed
by the United States Department of
Agriculture. The loss amounts to 36
per cent of the pigs furrowing in spring
litters before weaning compared with
a loss of 24 per cent of*pigs farrowing
In fall litters. In records on 3,026 Ut
ters of pigs during 1922 In Iillnols,
Iowa and Indiana. The following table
gives the principal causes of pig losses
up to weaning time:
Number of Pigs Lost Before Weaning
Per 1,000 Farrowed.
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Causes of Death.
Overlaid ....................
Farrowed dead ....
Farrowed weak ..,.
Chilled ____________
starved ...... .....
Scours .................................
Injured by other stock.
Sore mouth ......................
Eaten by sows ........
Worms .......................... ....
All other causes .............
Total died In each 1.000
farrowed .......................... 868
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These records serve to show that
fully one-fourth to one-third of the
feed and other expense In keeping
sows Is lost before weaning, by not
giving the sow proper feed and care
during gestation or proper farrowing
quarters, the department points out
By far the major share of losses In
pigs la due to Improper handling and
feeding and not to disease.
Sows running on pastures while
suckling pigs saved the largest litters.
Sows that were fed the following
quantities of feed, per one hundred
pounds liveweight monthly, during the
gestation period, farrowed the largest
litters: 45 pounds of corn, 10 pounds
of oats, 1.5 pounds of tankage. Tried
sows that had produced pigs previous
ly seemed in this study to show a ten
dency to produce larger Utters than
untried gilts.
Cause of Losses.
A similar study upon 8,574 spring
pigs produced on these same farms In
the spring of 1921 showed that 840 of
every 1,000 pigs farrowed died before
the date of weaning. The Important
causes of losses In the spring of 1921,
as In 1922, were pigs laid on by the
mother sow, and those bom dead os so
weak they could not get up to suckle.
The 1921 pigs, however, were bothered
more with necrotic enterltlB than wore
those In the spring of 1922.
The study Indicates that barring
fluctuations In prices of feeds' and the
occurrence of disease, the number of
thrifty pigs produced per sow more
than any other factor influences the
cost of producing pork. All the care
In feeding possible after weaning the
pigs can very seldom overcome the
production cost due to small litters,
the department says. The1 figures show
that the majority of sows last winter
had a carrying charge of $15 to $25
per head, which covered the cost of
carrying them while producing a Ut
ter of pigs; with a large share of the
sows this meant carrying charges for
twelve months.
The time to take the tall from the
lamb Is In Its second week of life. The
operation Is not difficult and docking
the lambs simply removes something
unnecessary to the lamb. Two men
and a sharp knife or a docking iron
are all that Is necessary. Let one man
hold the lamb, while the other lo
cates the joint In the tall by feeling
on the Inside. Push back the loose
skin so that a flap wUl grow over the
stub and cut the tall off at a joint
about one and one-half Inches from
the body. The cut Is simply made
with a sharp knlfo. In which case a
stout cord tightly tied about the stump
close to the body will stop unneces
sary bleeding. This cord should be
removed In eight or ten hours so that
there will be no sloughing.
A much better way of docking the
lamb Is the use of hot docking irons,
searing the tall off with an Iron heat
ed to a cherry red. This cauterises
the wound and prevents bleeding.
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What the World
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(Popular Mechanics Magazine.)
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MAKING HIM GET A MOVE ON
Sometimes a man’s creditors pro
vide the motive power that gains
for him the reputation of being a
person of unusual activity.
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There is lots of false economy iy
this world. A woman will waste
five dollars worth of time saving
ten cents worth of string.
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There is nothing moro angelic on
earth than the smile of the little
babe who knows not why it forms
its innocent mouth into that pleas
ing shape.
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Honesty is an absolutely safo
policy that doesn’t always pay div
idends.
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Half the people you envy are dis
satisfied with their position in life.
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Tho woman who gots married for
fun has a poor idea of a joke.
Airship Hangar Could Louse Large
Office Building
At Scott Field, Ill., the Army Air
Service has erected, at a cost of more
Attachment on Spade Saves Shoes
Taking Tail From Lambs
Not Difficult Operation
Play safe on oil
KEEP YOUR HEAD, BROTHER
“Where will we raise our food
when all of the available farming
area is taken up and worked to its
fullest capacity*” asks a magazine
writer. By that time we won’t
waste food on people with nothing
to do but ask foolish questions, so
there is no occasion for uneasiness.
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Often a woninn’s complexion is
as valuable as her reputation—nnd
she can whiten that up any time
she wishes.
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MORE SENSE TO THEM, TOO
We have seen tipsy men try to
talk—also mon after a public ban
quet—and gathered more enjoyment
out of some of the former than out
of some of the latter.
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A sweetly spoken refusal of a
request is sometimes more satisfac
tory than a begrudged acquiescence.
The illustration shows a slmpit
attachment for a spade, to save ths
Shia'S while digging. The attachmerj
consists of a
«hort length of
M or H-in. pipe,
<il>out 4 in. long,
with a hacksaw HACKSAW
SLOT
slot cut through
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it lengthwise as
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shown, to permit
it to be pushed
onto the spade.
Tho slot should,
of course, be of
such a width
that tho spade
will bo gripped
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firmly. The use of this attachment
only saves tho shoes of the workman,
but it is not so tiring on the foot
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glass, is 825 feet long and 225 feet high.
At tho end are large stool doors opened
and closed by electric motors that
travel on railroad rails.
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Red Finger Light to Aid Night
Auto Signaling
Completion of the laying of a new
A small red light worn on tho finger
cable in tho Atlantio Ocean, between
like a ring, has been mado to aid night
New York and London, is expected by
signaling by
August 1, next, according to a recent
motorists. A.s
announcement. It will bo tho largest
tho driver ex
ever laid in the Atlantic, or anywhere
tends his arm
else in the world, and will havo a ca
and hand to
pacity twice that of any other cable now
signal a turn,
in service between the United States
or whatever
and Europe. Engineers charged with
it may be,
tho design of the new cable estimate
tho lamp is
that it will permit a sending speed of
automati-
approximately 600 letters per minute rally lighted by the outstretching of
in Ixith directions at the samo time, or a
tho fingors. The oord connection
total of 1,200 letterspermin-.ite, making can txi plugged into tho dash-board
it the fastest cablo in tho world. Its or under the driver’s seat.
conductor requires an average of about
1,100 pounds of copper per mile, aS Modern Jove Juggles Million Volts
against an average of alxiut 700 pounds
At an electrical show held at a
of copper per mile for tho heaviest western university not long ago, one
now in servioe.
of the students mystified tho crowd
TTIC aeriiJs arc easy to eon- with a display rivaling the mythical
• struct and when properly made, feats of Jove, who was Ixdievod by the
the nsulls obtained with them art ancients to bo tho wieldor of the
nearly us good as those obtained with thunderbolt. Seated in a chair sep
outdixir aerials. Allie aerials should arated from a table by seven-ply in
sulators, tho youth grasped a zigzag
not be confused with loop aerials, at
they havo no direct ional effects. They rod in one hand and in the other a
wand with which ho made conflict
slno huve an advantage over outdool
aerials in that they do not need a light with a ball from which tho lightning
effect was emitted. Tho impunity
ning switch.
with which ho handled tho l,(XX),000
'rhe end-to-end type of this aerial volts is explained by the low amperage
consists of a number of lengths of No.
14 stranded copper wire, strung paral
lel to each other, and attached to tho
uprights at each end of the attic by
ffieans of ordinary aerial insulators,
Tho total length of the wire used
should not lie less t han 150, nor moro
than 200 ft., and tho wires should lxi
spaced about 1 !$ ft. apart. One end
is left dead; the wires are then con
nected in series, as shown, and the
other end is soldered to tho lead-in
wire, which is brought down to tho
instrument through a length of flexible
value of the current passing through
loom.
his
laxly and the insulators under the
In attics where less space is avail
chair logs, which prevented the elec
able, such as those with hip roofs, tho
aerial can be strung along tho rafters, tricity from going to the ground and
as shown In the upper right-hand thoreby establishing a flow of current
drawing. One length of No. 14 wire, that would have been disastrous to tho
150 to 200 ft. long, is strung in four daring young experimenter.
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parallel rows as indicated, the wire lx^
ing attached to tho rafters by means CA variation of the “dunning" letter
of round porcelain insulators, which is used by a Western firm, with agree
can be purchased at any electrical able results. Its notice is beaded with
supply store. Ono end is left dead, and four bias of music. The worils are
the other is connected to the lead-in also given, being a parody on an old
wire, as before.
Scotch folk song. They read: “May
Tho flat-loop aerial, shown in th« a Ixxly ask a Ixxly, Pleaao remit today. “
lower drawing, is designed for small
attics. Two lengths of rope are strung an amateur has received stations 1,000
across the attic. from oomer to corner, miles distant, using a two-step spider
and are tied ysgethor at tho point coil receiving wit.
where they : mm . The aerial wire is
To obtain tho best results with any
attached to the ropes, as shown in the receiving sot, just as much pains must
drawing, being tied firmly at overy lie taken tefsecure a good ground as to
point where it touches the ropes. Tho (■onstruct tho aerial. N umber 14 wire
inner end is the dead one, and the should lx; used, and ono cjid aoklered
azsial oh hw - hxx sattia
Main Things Necessary
in Handling Brood Mare
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Where to buy US.Tires
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Cottage Grove, Oregon
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Upper Left: Aerial Strung
•crow an Attic, the Wlrea
being Connected la Seri.e.
Upper Right:
Atrial Ar
ranged on the Rafter* of a
Hip Roof. Lower Right; Flat-
Loop Aerial Supported by
Ropea from the Cornera of
the Attic
outer end 1« connected to the
k'ad-in wire. The turns shoukl
Pure Bred Sows Are Most
be Rfxtced about 1 ft. apart.
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In apartments where there are no
Efficient Pork Producers
Experiments conducted by state and attics, an inside aerial that gives grxxl
government stations all over the coun results with a tube set can readily lx
try have proven conclusively that pure rruvla by running several turns of to
bred sows are more efficient [>ork pro nunciator wire tx-hind the picture
tnokling, leaving one end of the wire
ducers than grade or scrub sows. It deed,
and bringing the other down to
has also been proved on one of the
the receiving set. With such an aerial
largest hog ranch«* in the NorthwasL
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On far too many farms the hens are
left to shift for themselves, or per
haps, if the owner feels particularly
generous, a little grain Is thrown to
them. Though hens fed in thia way
may produce well at the time, they
will not do well, or give a profitable
production the next fall and winter.
The two mali things necessary In
handling brood mares are feed and
moderate exercise. Wheat bran and
oats are the two best grain rations and
are better If fed together. Excessive
corn and kafir will canee trouble at
foaling time.
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