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pork by holding up the price at a time k when pork 

 is tending down whereby the consumption of pork 

 is diminished and the price of hogs will obviously 

 go still lower, 



FEEDING HOGS 



It has already been stated that the area of exten- 

 sive pork production is practically identical with 

 the corn belt. In fact, corn and nogs seem to be 

 inseparable in the minds of nearly all farmers who 

 have engaged in the business of raising pork. 

 While corn, as so often stated, is the king of grains 

 raised in this country and while it may be used with- 

 out any other grain, particularly in the case of near- 

 ly mature hogs, it should be stated at the outset 

 that the best results cannot be obtained excepting 

 when some other material is fed with it. In pork 

 production, therefore, we have corn as the chief 

 grain mixed with some other grains such as barley, 

 peas, cotton seed meal, wheat, bran, middlings, 

 soy-beans, etc. to balance the ration, various kinds 

 of coarse forage like alfalfa hay, clover hay, pasture 

 (both leguminous and non-leguminous), roots and 

 fruits, and various waste materials, skim milk and 

 animal feeds. The chief classes of feeds are, how- 

 ever, grains, pasture, roots, skim milk and animal 

 feeds. 



Corn. As already indicated corn cannot be suc- 

 cessfully fed alone in the production of pork. Per- 

 haps the most extensive series of experiments along 

 this line have been carried on at the Wisconsin Ex- 

 periment Station, but nearly all of the agricultural 

 experiment stations where hogs are raised and 

 various other investigators have come to the same 

 conclusion regarding corn, namely that it does not 



