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nOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
Raising Fine Hogs in the Northwest
Some Ideas on the Best Way to Breed ancl Produce the Farm
ers' Mortgage Lifters.
.This is the fourth of a series of
Q articles by two men w 11 informed
4 upon what the hog can do for tho $
Northwest.
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BY JAMES E. WITHYCOMBE
and E. L. POTTED.
AFTER the growing period the pigs
should be put on a full ration and
. fattened for market as vapidly as
possible. This fattening period will
last about CO days, and at the end of
this time the pigs should v.ciegh about
200 pounds, which, is tho most salable
'weight in this state. After this weight
the gains are slower and more expen
sive, and the price per pound received
for tho animal will be less, hence the
total profit to the grower will be less,
As pigs . aro ordinarily . handled the
growing season will come at the time
of the best pasture, and by tho time
they are reaedy to fatten the pastures
will be short and dry and will furnish
but little feed.
The fattening pigs do not need much
exercise, so it is well to put them in
comparatively small pens and feed
grain, supplemented with skim milk,
tankage, middlings or some similar
feed. A little rich, green alfalfa pas
ture, such as is found in many places
in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Wash
ington, will bo very satisfactory, but
the pastures of Western Oregon and
Western Washington, especially those
found in the latter end of the season
when tho pigs are reaay to fatten, are
of little value except or growing pigs
and stock hogs. Rapo properly culti
vated, however, will furnish a good
pasture late in the season.
Wheat and Barley.
The grains that are used for fatten
ing are largely wheat and barley.
Pound for pound these two aro about
equal. The ono chosen should there
fore depend upon the market price. In
some places and in some years a little
corn may be used. Corn also lias about
the same value as wheat, pound for
pound, the preference, if any, being for
the corn, U it is properly supplemented.
None of these feeds should be fed alone,
but supplemented with a small amount
of some such feed 83 skim milk or tank
age. The pigs will eat more, will go
off feed less readily, will gain faster
and take less feed pere pound of gain
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when so fd. Of all the supplements
which may be used skim milk and tank
age are the best. It is hard tt ea which
is tho better, not onstderinr; price.
Ten pounds of milk per day per pig
should be about right.' If taukage is
used about one-half pound per day
per pig would give about the same re
sults as the ten pounds of skim milk,
although perhaps a trifle mr.ro grain
would be used by the tankage hogs;
say one half pound more grain per
day.
On this basis one pound of tankage
and one pound of grain would be equal
to 20 pounds of skim milk. In experi
ments at the Oregon experiment sta
tion, whera pigs were ied on this ba.'.is,
practically the same g 'ns wero ob
tained. Also from the standpoint of
the chemical nutrien.s contained the
two would beH about equal. Tankage
will cost in ton lots about 21c per
pound. In this basis skim milk
would bo orth a little less han 20c
per hundred pounds, r roughly, about
He per gallon. Where these supple
ments must be purchased they may be
purchased on this basis. In most cases,
however, the skim milk will be a home
product and would oth?rwif3 be largely
wasted, but tho tankage must be pu.'
chased.
Grain Feeding.
In comparing the feeding of grain
alone with grain supplemented with
skim milk or tankage, ti.e results are
in favor of the supplements. Experi
ments at the Oregon experiment sta
tion, wuerc grain feeding has been
compared with grain and skim milk,
have shown that 100 pounds of skim
milk have saved from 20 to 50 pounds
of grain, more commonly about 30 to
40 pounds. One hundred pounds of
tankage have savc,d rhout 400 pounds
of grain. A dollar invesetcd in tank
age at lie per pound, orjn skim milk
at 2flc per hundred pounds will thus
usually save from $1.50 to $2.00, and
in some cases even more. It must be
understood that this saving applies only
where limited in ounts of such feeds
aro given in connection with grain. If
thesce supplemental feeds were to take
the place of the entire amount of grain
no such saving would result; instead
the pigs would probably go off feed
and the results would be entirely un
satisfactory. The reason for this is
that grain, as wheat or barley, supple
mented as mentioned, makes a well bal
anced ration. It is appetizing and
suited to the pig's digestive syrtem,
and contains tho proper amount of the
nutriments which the pig needs. Grain
alone, or skim milk or tankage alone,
will not meet all of these requirements.
' There ere other feeds which may be
used as n supplement to wheat or bar
ley with good effect. The best of
these is middlings. Where middlings
are fed from one-fourth to one-third
of the ration should bo of this feed.
When fed in this way good results can
be expecUu, and it will be found that
the middlings will save much more than
their own weight in grain. When used
in this way middlings will be worth
from $2.00 to $2.00 per ton more than
wheat,' barloy or rorn, r.nc1 may be pur
chased on this basis.
Tankage Not Advised.
As to using more than one of these
supplements ct once, we would not rec
ommend the purchase of tankage when
skim milk is abundant, and not ordin
arily when middlings aro cheap. Both
middlings and skim milk may be fed to
advantage to bogs of any age, but es
pecially to hows suckling young pigs
and to growing pigs from one to four
months old. Shorts may be used in
place of middlings if of similar com
position. Some shorts are about the
same as middling, while in other cases
they are the same as bran.
Bran is a bulky feed and contains
so much fiber that its nee for pigs is
not recommended, and its valne for
dairy cows makes the price too high to
justify its use for pigs. Alfalfa, vetch
or elover hay, which is especially valua
ble for ttock hogs in winter, baa little
value for fattening hogs, and its use
for thia purpose is not recommended.
The same may be said of kale and roots.
Oats are very good for pregnant
sows, but have too much bulk for the
best results with other stock. Sheaf
fcrain ia very good, hut much better re
sults are ecured if it is tfcethed. Ex
periments .onduced at the Oregon ex
periment station some year., since
showed plain!; that the waste of feed
ing sheaf grain amounted to a great
deal iiure than the cost of thr filing. In
some places the hogs aro llowcd to run
in the field of uncut grain, or to "hog
it down" as it is called.
There is of course no esf.ns- to this
method, the waste is comparatively
small, and the indications aro that the
practice is one that may well be ex
tended. There ;g not sufficient con
clusive evidence on the subject at
kaud, however, to unquali. ed' recom
mend the practice,- but it ij suggested
that growers try it on a small seale, es
pecially in the dry farming sections,
and on grain that is too short to har
vest by the usual methods. ,
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