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stock for the pork barrel must be treated differently. If we feed 

 all com, there will be no bone, no muscle, no pig and no hog. We 

 must feed to produce better hogs for the future, to keep up size 

 and quality." 



R. J. Harding of Macedonia, Iowa, said that corn had its place, 

 that oil meal, bran and shorts were good, but that all go together, 

 and no one alone should be relied upon. 



Mr. McTavish considered the subject an important one, and 

 thought that as long as hogs were raised in Iowa corn would be 

 used as feed. It is indispensable to the hog raiser. He had paid 

 44 cents per bushel to feed to hogs that he sold for $2.90 per 

 hundred. He had made money on them because they had 

 been grown on good Iowa blue grass and buttermilk — stuff raised 

 on the farm, with the corn as a finisher. Fence farms hog tight. 

 It is the success of the hog business in the future. Turn the pigs 

 out in the spring and let them get that bone and muscle forming 

 food from the grass grown on the farm with clover, and some 

 buttermilk, and then feed them com. If you can supply the hogs 

 with plenty of something to balance up that com you will not 

 give too much corn and you will not have any broken down hogs. 



Harvey Johnson practices feeding a variety as much as possible. 

 In winter time he provides alfalfa hay, keeping the fourth cutting 

 for that purpose. He urged upon breeders the importance of 

 alfalfa as a feed for brood sows. Those, however, who did not have 

 alfalfa, should have second crop of clover. His buildings are so 

 located that in winter the sows have access to the pastures, and in 

 bright days they may generally be seen picking green stuff and 

 getting exercise at the same time. He feeds plenty of oats and 

 bran, and at night com and alfalfa, with as much of the latter as 

 they want. In stormy weather he feeds under a shed or on a 

 good feeding floor. 



Henry Door of Remsen, Iowa, put his alfalfa hay through a 

 cutter and fed it with ground oats, as he found feeding alfalfa 

 hay wasteful. He moistened the mixture and fed it in a trough. 



0. S. Gilbert of Grundy Center, Iowa, thought breeders should 

 raise more feed and buy less. He had been raising a mixture of 

 wheat and oats sown in the proportions of one bushel each and 

 raised eighty to ninety bushels per acre. He thought it better and 

 cheaper than bought feed. 



Having exhausted all phases of the subject. Dr. J. H. McNeiU 

 of the Iowa state college at Ames, was introduced a^.d delivered 



