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Feeding New Corn

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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So coinmon are outbreaks of disease imong swine after the feeding of new i torn begins that inauy claim this as one of the chief caussa of hos cholera. AH admit, writes a contributor to The Breeder's Gazette, that derangement of the digestión is a prolific source of disease. The carefüi feeder makes changas in f eed very gradual ly. Itisnot uiicominon for farmers to feed out the last ear of old coru and theu haul in a load or more of new corn and begiu to feed that in the same quantities. The stock never refuses it. They liko the change. But colic or indigestión follovvssuch radical changes. Before the old corn is goue is the time to begin to feed new. If one finds his stock of old corn getting low, he rnay safely supplement it with the new, provided that when ho begins flrst to use new corn the major part of the feed is old corn. Where we have made the change gradually, taking ten days ortwo weeks toget up to a full feed of new corn, we have never found that any trouble followed. There is one precaution, however, that is necessary. The new corn must not be thrown into a pile so as to heat. This ineans a fermentation has set in that upsets the digestión of even a hog. When hay, oats or corn has passed through the sweat that occurs after it is put in bulk, the feed seems to be more wholesome. Just why, we hope sorne chemist will teil us. If swine growers rnust feed new corn early, we have never fcuud any trouble in changing from clover to corn when we began by cutting up the corn and feeding thei entire plant. The feeding inay thusafely begin when the ear is in the milk stage, provided thero is a moderate amount fed at the start. Nor is this time of begiuning on the green corn objection able or wasteful. Usually the ciover lacks succulence, and the heads and leaves have become scarce. The hogs eat the ear, cob and stalk at first. As the corn hardens and the stalks become more fibrous the qnantity of corn must be increased. By the time the ears are hard the hogs will have come so gradually from clover to corn rations that they can safely be fed all they will eat up clean. Feeding new corn on the stalk at the start is the safest and most economical way to begin unless one is ready to "hog down" the corn. This, however, should not begin until the corn is mature, as the waste will be so great while in the roasting ear Ihat it pays to cut the corn at that stage and feêd it on the clover or pasture in such quantity as they will eat up clean. After the stalk is too dry to eat and the grain is out of tbe milk, orwillshell, hogs will harvest the erop more economically than it eau be done by hand or by the improved corn husker. With corn so cheap and the weather not so wet as to injure the land or destroy the corn by tramping in the mud "hogging down" corn is not a wasteful way of harvestiug the corn erop. It is more econornical to have sruall fields or to fence off a portion of a large field so that the hogs can be changed to fresh corn as the fattening advances and let the store pigs andsows clean up after the feeders. Hogs on corn require an abundance of water convenient to them. It will not do to "hog off" corn without abundant and good water. Winter Stores For Bees. When natural stores are found lacking in the brood chainber, the best substitute is a sirup made of granulated sugar, which should be fed in the autumn as rapidly as the bees can manipúlate it and store it away. If several pouuds be giveu at a time - placed ín a shallow vessel, with straw or silver floats in the top story of the colouy to be fed, just at nightfall - it will ha stored away quickly, so that in a week at mos{ the fnll winter stores will be completed. The bees will seal itover better if fed slowly at last - that is,after the main feeding. Sirnp made by pe'colatiou of cold water throngh a mass of sugar and then through some porön3 ruaterfal, as cotton, is what is called a complcteJy satnrated solution, says The Farmer's Advocate, wbicb, in this connection, calis atteution to a good sort of percolator taken from a manual of instruction on agriculture issued by the department of agi'iculture. Buckwheat honey ia uow much used for feeding, as it auswers as well as white houey and is worth only about two-thirds as much per pound. Applyinjj IVIaiiure. Ou the subject of applyiug manure, I would say that where work land is in pasture, as a meaus of rotation, this is the finest place in the world to put manure of all kiuds and at UI seasons of the year. One advantiipe in this is that all throngh cprn plowing and so on manure can be hauled on wet days, Yvbfiu, if it must go on work land, it must wait until the erop is off. Next comes meadow land tbat is to be plowed up iu the fall or spring for corn. After that cmnes the plow land, but wherever il is put be systeinutic in applying it, so that uo ground will be goue over twico

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