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Q. How large a corn field do you turn them into — how long 

 do they run in the corn? 



Mr. Gunn : Well, this fall I had a 12-acre corn field that was 

 intended for the hogs. It was early corn, and I turned them in 

 about the first of September and let them clean it up thoroughly, 

 and they made a good job. The field is plowed and ready for corn 

 next year. Maybe I would give them another twelve or fourteen 

 acres to five or six hundred pigs. 



Q. "Which hundred can you make the cheapest, the first, second 

 or third hundred? 



^Ir. Gunn : You can make the hog grow 100 pounds cheaper 

 than 200. 



Q. About how many pigs do you calculate to average? 



^h\ Gunn: I don't figure at the end of tli£ year averaging 

 more than six pigs; that is a pretty good average for every sow. 



Mr. Downing: How do you prepare your fat hogs for the mar- 

 ket to keep down the shrinkage while they are in transit? 



^Ir. (lunn : I don't prepare them. ]My liogs go out of the feed 

 lot to market. I can't make much preparation because I am seven 

 miles from market. I haul or drive them to market, and getting 

 them there is quite a problem if you have two or three loads. I can 

 hardly prepare either my cattle or hogs for shipment. 



]Mr. DoAvning: How much corn do you put in the car? 



]\Ir. Gunn : I put seven or eight bushels of corn in the car. 



]Mr. Downing: How far are you from market? 



>\Ir. Gunn: I am thirty miles north of Belle Plaine. and that 

 is 280 miles from Chicago. 



Mr. Downing: How much shrinkage do you generally have 

 per car? 



iNIr. Gunn : Well, that depends some on who handles them at 

 the other end. .uid it depends on where you figure from. If I figure 

 from the time I load them at home until I get to Chicago, I may 

 have a thousand pounds ; but I have weighed them in Buckingham 

 and in Chicago and had no shrinkage. I weighed them empty. AVe 

 feed them probably a bushel to the car after they get to Chicago. 



Q. Do you think it would be better if you would put more 

 corn in the car? 



