Fattening Hogs

Iheroií uo-eooHomjr greater, than that wHich leads a well-to-do farmer totfutten his hogs early in the scison, at least to begin to start them in tha fall, so that they can have the benefit of the feed while they axe in the condition to lay on fat. Here M'tfce experience of an Illinois feeder who writes to the Prairie Farmer : "Some years ago, two of my neighbors and mjrself took hogs to feed by tl poand. "We tbok our hogs the same day, and reiurned thera to the owner the same day. My neighbors said to me at the start, that they were going to beat me in making pork, so I did about as well as I could. They had the first piek from the herd, and seleoted about ninety smooth, straight hogs. I took one hundred and sixty. . " My neighbors fed their hogs three times per day, having rye ground and made into slop, for two of the raeals, and the third was of corrt in tho ear. We oommenoed about the lst of September. My hogs vrere put into stubble fields well set with wheat, rye and oat stubble. They gleaned over some 150 acres. I fod them some wheat in the shcaf once a day. then oats once a day for a couplc of Waaks. I then cut up green corn, and f jd stalks and all for ten days, at the end of which time they were turntd into a fte-acre lot, then into a nicc fii'teen-acre fl )ld of timothy and white clover. " In this pasture I placed five troughs ia which I kept a good supply of bran, galt and wood ashes, mixed togother in the proportions of say two bushels of bran, half a bushei of ashes and half a üushi-1 of salt. I then commonced feeding them husked corn in the ear, scattering it well over the sod, so that all could get a chance to cat. I gave them sufficient at a time to last thein eight or ninn ditys. When they liad cloaned it up well nother similar allowance was given them. Having previously tested tho time it sfckes a lot of hogs, say oO head, to eat 50 ■bushels of corn, 1 found that one bushei would last, fed in this way, six days, so I easily got at the allowance needed. "On the day of delivery my friends weighed their hogs and found that thny had gained about two and one-half pounds per day in the fifty days they had beea feeding them. Mine showed a gain of 180 ponndg per hog, so you seo where the beat ' camo in.' " Now for tho philosophy of my plan of feeding : I found by watehing the Habits of my hogs that tb y would, whon fed my way, get up very early in tho morning, and whilo the dew was on, take some feed on tho gras.", return past the troughs and take some of the mixture, then go to the corn and make out a breakfast. They would then take a sloep till toward ïioon, when they would go to water, take a drink, then take anothcr foed of grass, and then corn again, till about five o'clock ; then grass, oom, ;md sleep. At about ten o'clook they would quietly get p and takn a feed of corn, jlu.ii sleep until about threo o'clock in tlie morning, when their fifth meal. This manner of taking food was regular in good weather."