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experiments show that it took 5^- Ibs. of corn meal to make 

 one pound of dressed pork. It took only 4^^ Ibs. of the corn and 

 cob-meal to make a pound of dressed pork; and of the corn 

 unground it took 6 ^^ pounds to make one pound of pork. In 

 view of these experiments, the value of cob-meal as food for hogs 

 cannot be questioned. 



Valuable Additions to Pasture Feed for Hogs 

 If during mid-summer pastures are in such condition as not to 

 afford sufficient food, then of course the farmer must supply other 

 food, and in order to do this without using the advantage which 

 green feed affords at this season of the year, an advantageous 

 method of providing for this contingency is to have peas sown early 

 so that they may be provided during the period of greatest heat, 

 when pastures are most apt to suffer. Experience has shown that 

 there is really no other feed so desirable as peas to be fed to hogs. 

 Hogs fatten quite as readily upon them as upon corn, the pork is 

 of superior quality and the cost where peas are grown to advantage 

 is about the same per acre. Artichokes are also good feed for hogs, 

 as has been established by the experience of Iowa hog-breeders. A. 

 C. Vinton, of Vinton, Iowa, one of the most successful breeders of 

 Poland-Chinas in the country, says on this subject: " The keep of 

 my hogs in warm weather is blue grass, clover and Brazilian arti- 

 chokes. Forty head of hogs and their pigs may be kept without 

 other food on an acre of artichokes from the time frost is out of the 

 ground till the first of June, and from September or October till 

 the ground is again frozen. Hogs taken from the artichoke pastures 

 to clover and blue-grass will not root up the sod, as they are free 

 from intestinal worms, constipation, indigestion and fever, caused 

 by feeding corn in winter." 



How to Prepare Artichoke Pastures for Hogs 

 The ground should be rich, ploughed eight or ten inches deep, the 

 tubers cut the same as seed potatoes and planted from early spring 

 to June 10th, ten to fifteen inches apart in rows that are three feet 

 apart, with six bushels to the acre. They can also be planted in the 

 fall from October 15th to November 16th, but the tuber should not 

 be cut, and the ground should be thoroughly rolled after planting. 

 If planted in the spring, plenty of rain in July and August will 

 make them large enough to turn the hogs on in September; other- 

 wise, a month later. If in foul ground they may be given a thor- 

 ough working with a cultivator when three or four inches high, and 

 when the hogs have been removed to allow a new crop of tubers to 

 grow, the ground should be made smooth by harrowing, that the 

 tops may be cut with a mower as food for horses and cattle. Enough 

 seed will remain in the ground for another crop, but they may 

 easily be eradicated when desired, by mowing off the tops and 

 ploughing the ground deeply in July and the early part of August. 



Importance of Good Appetite of Hogs and How 

 Secured What has been impressed upon the reader with regard 



