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6 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION respect the boar should be the opposite pure of another breed. The cross bred extreme, if the sows are rangy and pigs so produced are generally especially leggy the boar with which they are thrifty and to fatten. mated should be the extremely short, Some Ideas on the Best Way to Breed and Produce the Farmers’ low down, blocky type. This is a mis. Mortgage Lifters. take. Boars should be selected which are as nearly perfect as possible in the point in which the sows are deficient, By JAMES E. WITHYCOME ind E. I*. mistakes with grades. He should not and not those which are just as bad in POTTER. buy too many; four or five will be the other extreme. Perfection in any F a young pig becomes chilled take plenty. Many men have made failures point is seldom obtained by breeding to it to the house and plunge it in ♦ by plunging abruptly into the hog in-lgetber two radical extremes. A good warm water (as hot as you can bear There has been no more ardent <£> dustry on a large scale. A large hog thrifty early spring pig rnay be used your hand) several times, and then wrap <v enthusiast of the hog than James <$> farm, like any other large business, for breeding to bring pigs in the fol- in warm flannel and put in a warm E. Withycombe, nor has there been <®> must be started modestly and built up lowing spring but an older boar is place. <?» any greater friend of the farmer. <$> from its own profits. One should not preferable. • a • ® The article below, the first of a become excited about the stories he Young pigs are so partial toward '!> series concerning hogs, we believe <$> reads of the fabulous profits in hog an ° 'd boar can be purchased, <S> will prove of general interest. <i> raising. Hog raising is a good con- whicb some good breeder is about to dis' foods rich in protein that they will acquire an excess of that element if servative and profitable business, with card> 80 much the betier- A tried sire given an opportunity, thereby stunting a very bright future in this state, but 18 aIway ’ preferable to an untried one, their growth. it is not a “ get rich-quick” scheme. and is usuall-v purchased at less cost. a a a ' HE best device for feeding is a flat- IA boar five or six years old should be No man that is inexperienced should bottomed trough about ten inches If possible the first sows should be ¡just as good a breeder as he ever was wide and five inches deep. This bought in the winter, already b i t - 3 . In and even more sure, providing he is undertake the business of raising hogs trough should run across the end of this way it will not be necessary to buy active. He may, however, be a little unless he expects to make a study of the pen next to the alley. It will ex a boar the first year, especially with I heavy to use on young sows, thus neces- it, and to profit by his mistakes. • • • tend in front of the door leading into only a few sows, and at the end of a I sitating a breeding crate. By putting Ground oats, wheat bran and a little the feed alley, but this will not be an year it will be an easier matter to the sows in this and carefully adjusting it to the size of the sows a very heavy oil meal, together with some alfalfa or boar may be used on light sows with clover hay, will keep the brood sows out danger. Some breeders use such a from becoming • feverish. • • crate for all their sows. The construc When pigs are given bad quarters tion and dimensions of such a crate are they can ’t be expected to return good shown in cut. dollars. Some farmers expect to get a boar a a a for twelve or fifteen dollars. Such It is a mistake if the hog is not fed breeders never get very far in raising in a clean plact free from dust and good hogs. A boar that is not worth mud. around fifty dollars is not the proper kind. Plenty of boars can be bought for less, but not good ones. In buying I l i t l L f t bT Cuttw'« BlacKleo PMVEHTEB P ill*. Low- rie d , fresh, reliab le preferred hr sows about the usual market price per I T W i l V I l p Western stockmen because they pre fect where other vaecince fall. pound is customary for grades. Nice W rit., for booklet and testimonials. pure gilts run from $50 up in this 10-doM pkpe. Blaeklef Rills |l.0 0 50-doee pkge. Blaeklef Pills 4 00 state. Many successful breeders prefer . ... . V ’S any R e c to r. but Cutter*« best of Cutter products Is due to orer 19 that their sows be pure or high grades rears to of superiority specializing In vaoalnes and serums esly. J j* •• unobtainable. order direct of one breed, and that their boar be » HE CUTTER LABORATORY. Berkeley, California Raising Fine H ogs in the N orthw est A Few Hog Hints T Pl ATI/ L0SSES SURELV LEG The Hum of the Blizzard Makes Me Smile An Admirable Type of Breeding Orate. inconvenience, as it is low and easy to select the proper kind of a boar. The step over. If made to extend only to sow pigs will be old enough also to the door it will not be large enough breed by that time, and may be bred to to accommodate the pigs the pens will the new boar, whereas if they were his properly hold. It is quite common in progeny it would not be desirable to the corn belt to build a small feeding breed back to him. Old sows are gen foor in the outside lot and put the erally to be preferred to gilts, but the trough on that. The corn is commonly latter are usually much easier to obtain. fed in the ear and the ears are scattered Uniformity in sows is algo much to be about on the floor. Where small grain desired. For these reasons it is pre ie fed such feeding floors aro not so ferable to select from the same blood common, but they have a considerable lines and even from the same breeder. advantage in forcing the pigs to get out Some farmers select from widely dif ferent herds in order that their sows into the open. In Eastern Oregon and Eastern Wash may not be in any way related, but this ington where the hog lots are large and is a mistake. It is preferable that all on dry, well drained ground, such floors stock be closely related except the boar, will be quite an advantage, and they which should be of unrelated, but simi entail no additional expense, since the lar blood lines. The points to be considered in the house may be made smaller. A 6x8 pen with the feeding done outside will selection of individual brood sows are: be as satisfactory as an 8x10 pen with An over fat eondition should be avoid the feeding done inside. Often where ed, but a marked readiness to fatten is feeding is done in this manner the house always desired; length of body is con is simply a long shed about 10 feet wide, sidered an especially good point, but in with the roof sloping to the north and general it must be remembered that any connecting pens on the south. The feed good qualities the pigs may have are to floors are then placed at tho end of the be inherited from the sows and the | lot farthest from the house. Where in boar, and if the sows are coarse and dividual houses are used the feeding ia roughly made the pigs are likely to usually done in this manner. Many of inherit that tendency. Selecting the Boar. the best breeders follow thia plan with In selecting a boar the best should their brood sows because of the exereiee afforded. Its efficiency for fattening be secured—a first-class pure bred boar of the breed most suitable, and one good stock is rather doubtful. In \\ estern Oregon and Western enough to bead a pure bred herd. Es- | Washington it is not desirable to have pecial care should be exercised in select the pigs eating out in the rain and ing a boar suitable for the sows. If the sows have produced one litter their tailing back and forth in the mud. value as breeders can be easily de Selection of the Sows. termined. It is a popular error to think To the beginner in the hog industry that if the sows are faulty in some the purchase of good thrifty grade sows is recommended rather than pure breds. eboo» Mala IT»* They will be cheaper and for economical LIFE production for the market will do just HEALTH aa well. No beginner should start into ACCIDENT the pure bred hog business expecting to sell breeding stock until he has first thoroughly mastered the business of raising hogs for the market. In the first place he should have this knowl PLETE edge in order to be familiar with the B IN A T IO N demands of his customers, and in the second place, pure bred hogs are expen ACT sive, and it ia cheaper fer the beginner to do his experimenting and make his 3-1 — ' U ------ i H — The louder s h e hum s the m ore I sm ile it mean« the filling; of m y silo °* cow * and thrive on it means that m y crop is being rapidly put away w here w eather does not bother. I don’t have to wait for good weather like you do and run the risk o f losing m y crop. TTiat hum is m usic to m e— aorta seem s like the old Blizzard is sing ing over the good work it’s doing. Yes, it's a Blizzard. Why? W ell, Sir, just watch it a few m inutes and you w on’t need an answer. S ee the boys hustle. T hey have to, to keep up with it. T he Blizzard hardly ever chokes, cause the throat is so large and clear. No, there is no danger. T he gears are all shielded and a pull of that lever near John s hand instantly stops, starts or reverses the feed rolls and feed table. The Blizzard is different from m ost silo fillers. B lizzard people started to b u ild silo filler« befo re any one else and decided to b u ild as sim ple and as good a m achine as possible. M o s t cut»er« have a separate -u tte r, fly w h e e l an d fan. but the B lizzard p eo ple com bine t »ese in one. w h ich m akes less w earin g part« and takes less p o w e r to run the m achine A n » b e rth in g that m ad e m e take to th e B lizzard is th a t no tim e is lost in adjusting the knives to the shear p late. T h e re is a d e v ic e on the m a in shaft b y w h ic h this is done w h ile th e y a re ru n n in g fu ll blast. * o * i * boys d on t w o rry abo ut the silo. The B lizzard w in d blast «hoots th e «*Iage u p a n y distance and th e new distribiM or spreads it out eve n ly inside, ----- 1 tell you it a J > a m o n ey m aker fo r . 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