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Not all the corn raised would be fed off, for it is not 

 well to have the hogs in the field after snow and cold weather 

 come. Six or eight pigs five to seven months old will ordi- 

 narily clean up an acre of average corn during the fall. 



Waste by Hogging Crops. — Allowing hogs to help them- 

 selves to a crop is called "hogging off the crop." This 

 practice is generally regarded as very wasteful — that the 

 hogs trample down and waste a great deal of the crop. 



Figure 106. — Duioc J^Tsey, Orion's Pathfinder 399213. At 11 months stood 35 in. 

 high, measured 70 in. from root of tail to end of nose, and weighed 44 ) lbs. 

 Courtesy Shepard and Freers, Muscatine, Iowa. 



Little of the crop is wasted if the hogs are turned into a 

 small patch sufficient to last two or three weeks at a time. 



Results obtained by experiment stations and practical 

 farmers show that an acre of corn will make fully as much 

 and often more pork, where hogs help themselves, than 

 where it is husked and fed to the hogs in a yard. 



At one of these experiment stations one lot of hogs 

 was turned into a field of corn, and another similar lot 

 was shut in a yard and fed husked corn. It was found 

 that the hogs in the field required 7.35 lbs. of grain to make 

 a pound of gain, while those in the yard required 8.59 lbs. 

 of grain to make a pound of gain. 

 Questions: 



1. In what ways may we reduce the amount of labor 

 in caring for fattening hogs? 



2. Of what use are field peas as a feed for hogs? 



3. What can you say regarding "hogging off com"? 



