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Mr. Failor added a few words on the corn question : 

 I want to say a little along the line of hogs and corn. Hogs and 

 corn go well together, but there are other things to be considered. What 

 are we going to do with the land that vv^e cannot raise corn on? We 

 can not feed corn alone. It is not good for the hogs and our hogs are 

 better off with a balance of wheat, barley or rye. Now, we have the 

 hogs to feed and we need the wheat and barley and rye to balance the 

 corn. What is the use to talk corn all the time when we need these 

 other things to balance our farms and our feed? It is just as easy to 

 raise them as a balanced ration .is it is to undertake to raise the corn 

 as. a balanced ration. I have been raising hogs for a good many years, 

 and I have learned by experience to use a good deal of something more 

 than corn. 



Mr. ^funson followed by saying: 

 We have been talking corn and hogs and we want to talk sensibly. 

 If we can raise an extra bushel of corn to the acre by better cultivation 

 we might raise from five to twenty extra bushels by preparing our seed 

 bed better, as has been suggested, and by better cultivation. 



Dr. Hammer said : 

 When we think of going into the hog business I think we should 

 follow Mr. Swallow. A little more milk and never so much that a little 

 more would not be better. I found the Jersey has a great deal of cream. 

 We concluded to try the Holstein. We found the Holstein milk breeds 

 the very best stock. It produces bone and muscle, while the Jersey 

 makes fat. My son and I got seven cows and sold cream enough to 

 pay a man to work on the farm and fed the milk to the pigs. The 

 sooner you can get the milk to the pigs and calves the more healthy 

 it is for them. We take a heaping tablespoonful of oilmeal and stir 

 it up and then pour in the milk and give it to the pigs. There is noth- 

 ing like Holstein milk for pigs. Keep your lots sowed in rape for pas- 

 ture. The first time I sowed it the neighbors all wondered at it. I 

 sowed one and one half acres and when it was, grown I turned half ri 

 dozen sows into it. At the end of six weeks I had sold thirty-six of 

 thirty-eight head fed on it. And now T notice that the neighbors are 

 sowing it. too. I used to buy oilmeal and shorts and bran, but now 1 

 am raising rape and oats and corn and I put my corn up and have green 

 corn all the year around. I raise everything I feed to my cattle and 

 hogs on the farm and I think we should do it. i Use the rape and 

 alfalfa and corn and raise everything on the farm that you feed your 

 stock. 



Mr. Munson came back to corn again and said : 

 It seems as though I stirred up a kind of hornets' nest when I Raid 

 I did not feed corn. You mis,understood me. I do not believe in feeding 

 corn to breeding stock, but if you have a pig that you are fattening feed 

 him all the corn you can. But if you have nice breeding stock that 

 you are trying to develop and grow, I say, feed him no corn. 



