180 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The man who feeds for the market must feed corn, but if you have fifteen 

 or twenty brood sows I believa you can afiford to feed them something 

 besides corn. I breed Duroc-Jerseys exclusively and we claim a good deal 

 for the prolificness of that breed. You ought to use something besides 

 corn. The oats I feed are first roasted and then put through a sort of brush 

 which brushes off the end and hull of the oats. It is done by centrifugal 

 force. The oat stands on end and the end is ground off so you get a very 

 pure article. When the oat is put through the huller the tip of it is broken 

 off. The oats shorts make a fine feed when you get the genuine article. 

 Hogs lay on fat better with corn, but I can not say that I like corn for breed- 

 ing stock. 1 can not agree on corn for a diet. 



The other gave some of his experience as follows : 



I am feeding about one-third corn. If I am feeding a bunch of hogs for 

 the market there is nothing better to produce the fat, but for breeding stock 

 the less corn the better off you will be. We can grow good hogs without 

 corn, but we can grow corn so much cheaper than other foods that it would 

 seem advisable to feed some of this corn. I advocate that you feed some 

 oat shorts, but let them have some corn to put them in the sale ring. The 

 sale and a breeding animal are two different things. A show hog is not a 

 breeding animal — is not a reliable breeder. I maintained last year and 

 maintain it \et, the less corn you give a breeding animal the betttr off you 

 are. 



BREEDING AND CULTURE OF CORN. 



Prof. P. G. Holden, of the Iowa Agricultural College, gave 

 an extended talk upon this topic, from which we extract the 

 following more important statements : 



It seems to me that this is a very proper place to discuss the question of 

 corn. It is very closely connected with the great business with which you 

 people are connected. You are unique in your position as representing the 

 greatest association of any State in the United States, producing more hogs 

 than any other three states. Fifty per cent of the hogs that go into Chicago 

 annually come from this State. It is one of the best evidences of the partic- 

 ularily high condition of agriculture and it will mean more in the future 

 development of the agriculture of this State. It means that it will lead us 

 on to do our best in every way possible to hold that position and even increase 

 the worth of our animals. 



One thing is found to be true and that is that the people of this State are 

 more anxious to study and investigate these things than in any other State. 

 They want to study and improve their corn. More interest is taken in your 

 swine breeding matters and in the agriculture college. More people come 

 there to visit the college. But it has been a great disappointment to me to 

 fail to find family clubs in the State, as we have them in many other states. 

 In Michigan 400 clubs are in existence. When families get together to dis- 



