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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1923)
APRIL HOG NOTES The majority of the spring pigs have now been farrowed. After a litter is two weeks old, the sow should be on full feed. Usually the best ration to give her is the one which is the cheapest and most productive of a large; flow of milk. However, the importance of feeding a ration that is stimulating to milk production is so great that economy becomes of secondary importance. The amount of miik a sow gives determines the rate of development of her pigs during these weeks. The cheapest gains that a pig will ever make will be duiing the suckling period. Feeds which are high in protein and minaral matter are necessary because milk is a muscle and bone building food. Feeds high in these two constituents are usually condusiye to milk production. Such feeds as tankage, shorts, skimmilk or buttermilk must be used along with corn. The following combinations are good and suggest the proportions by weight, in which the feeds should be given: 1. One part corn plus two parts skimmilk or buttermilk. 2. (Four parts corn plus one paat shorts) plus ten per cent tankage. 3. (Two parts corn plus one part ground oats plus one part shorts) plus five per cent tankage. 4. Three parts corn plus two parts ground oats plus ten parts skimmilk or buttermilk. Pasture is a very valuable addition to the regular ration. Suc culent feeds have the same effect upon milk production of a sow that they have upon the dairy cow. The average daily milk production of of a sow during the lactation period is about five pints. The average sow wiil lose from twenty-five to forty pounds of weight during this period. A sow which has a large litter and is a heavy miik producer will not lose so much weight if she is fed three times daily. Be sure to keep fresh water before the sow and pigs at all times. When the pigs are about three weeks old a creep should be con structed to which all pigs can go and eat from low troughs at frequent intervals. A small quantity of shelled corn, shorts and ground oats are good feeds to keep in these troughs. The male pig should be castrated when six weeks old or about two weeks before weaning. The usual time for weaning pigs is when they are eight to ten weeks old. If they have had up to this time the advantage of a creep and good rations, they will scarcely miss their mother’s milk. Re duce the sow’s ration a few days before weaning. This precaution will tend greatly to eliminate the conditions that favor inflamed ud ders or caked teats at weaning time. The following rations are sug gested for pigs at weaning time: 1. Corn, two parts. Shorts, one part. Skimnuik, one part. 2. Corn, five parts. Shorts, three parts. Tankage, one part. The shorts and tankage may be fed in a slop, but just as good re sults are obtained by dry feeding from a self-feeder. Be sure to keep the pigs on pasture. If you have not planned a summer pasture, it is not yet too late to do so. Cattail millet can be sown and will make one of the best summer pastures. Following is the grazing rotation for hogs, which is advised by the Extension Division of the Georgia State College of Agriculture: HOGS GRAZING ROTATION Field and Pasture Arrangements. : Rye, oats and rape, followed by peas and corn first year. Permanent : Rye, oats and crimpson clover, followed by soy Pasture : beans and corn, second year. 5 acres : Oats, and wheat, followed by peas and beans Bermuda and : broadcast, third year. Carpet grass : Rye, oats and rape, followed by peas and corn, Lespedeza : fourth year. Clovers : 5 Acres. : Rye, oats and crimson clover, followed by soy : beans and corn, first year. : Oats, wheat followed by peas and soy beans broad : casting, second year. : Rye, oats and rape followed by peas and corn, : third year. : Rye, oats and crimson clover, followed by soy : beans and corn, fourth year. : 5 Acres. : Oats and wheat, followed by peas and beans : broadcast, first year. : Rye, oats and rape, followed by peas and corn, : second year. :!Rye, oats and crimson clover, followed by soy : beans and co.rn, third year. : Oats and wheat, followed by peas and soy beans : fourth year. : 5 Acres. : Rape-spring. Alfalfa. : Sorghum or cattail millet late summer. : 2 Acres. W. S. RICE, Adjunct Prof., Animal Husbandry. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio STANSELL-RAPE BROS. MCDONOUGH, GEORGIA 'Cushion. 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