THIRD ANNUAL YKAK BOOK PART VJ. 3()7 



every year there was some hum hod of inducing stockraisers to keep their 

 breeding; stock in thinner flesh. But now that green corn is here, many 

 who have been anxiously awaiting its coming will unthinkingly throw it to 

 their hogs in great quantities, even at first while it is soft and washy and 

 while their hogs are not used to it. No better method of filling hogs with 

 worms and thus laying the foundation for disease can be adopted. Than 

 that there has been very little cholera among hogs in the last year, what 

 better evidence do we want thai too much corn is one of the primary 

 causes ni disease? 



In the beginning of feeding green corn we would exhort that you 

 exercise the greatest care and thus avoid disaster. While the corn is yet. 

 soft feed but very little, starting on no more than one stalk with one 

 ear to a single mature hog, and feed younger hogs in the same propor- 

 ti»n. As the corn matures the allowance may be increased to about three 

 ears to each head at the end of a month. It is better to feed too little 

 than too much. During the time that you are feeding green corn be sure 

 to keep plenty of ashes and salt where the hogs can get at it whenever it 

 is wanted; they will eat a great deal of it. which will serve to keep them 

 free of worms to quite an extent. Also keep all watering places thor- 

 oughly disinfected. If there are any to which you have not been giving 

 any slop it would be well to give them a "short" feed of slop about, twice 

 a week, and in it put some sort of a worm preventive. There are many 

 recipes for using for worms that are very efficient, one of which we shall 

 aim to publish soon, but if nothing else is easily accessible use turpentine, 

 but do not feed anything with turpentine in it to pregnant sows. 



It is our sincere wish that each one who raises hogs and expects to 

 feed green corn will use enough discretion in doing so to avoid disease. 

 The hog crop is short and the one who saves his hogs and cares for them 

 well will fill his pockets with gold, but the one who throws green corn to 

 his hogs promiscuously, regardless of quantity, will come to certain dis- 

 appointment and loss. 



There is no better feed than green corn if fed with care. The great- 

 est danger is found in feeding it alone — that is, to hogs that are receiving 

 no slop or grain allowance. 



WHAT IS IT WORTH TO ALLOW HOGS TO FOLLOW CATTLE? 



Wallaces' Farmer. 



A Nebraska subscriber writes us that he has a neighbor who has pigs 

 averaging from 100 to 125 pounds, for which he has to buy corn at 30 

 cents per bushel, and as he himself is feeding cattle and has not enough 

 hogs to follow, he has allowed the neighbor to put his into the yard and 

 wishes to know how much he should charge him. 



It requires about 550 pounds of corn to make 100 pounds of pork. 

 Therefore, the feed that the hogs get after cattle is worth as much to the 



