262 INDIAN CORN. 



" A very successful manager," says the editor of 

 the Country Gentleman, "with whose treatment we 

 are well acquainted, pours six parts of hot water on 

 one part of ground Indian meal, and then allows it 

 to stand twelve to eighteen hours, until the whole is 

 swollen to a thick mass, when it is given to the ani- 

 mals. He finds boiling water better than cold for 

 this purpose, but the mixture undergoes little or no 

 fermentation. So successful is his management, that 

 in connection with the selection of good breeds, and 

 regular feeding and cleanliness, he usually obtains one 

 pound of pork from feeding three pounds of corn." 



Mr. J. "W. Zigler, of Indiana, according to a state- 

 ment made by him in the Western Rural, fed fifteen 

 hogs with corn for forty-two days, during which time 

 the average gain per hog was nearly three pounds per 

 day, and the pork was at the rate of one pound for 

 every three pounds of corn. The pork was sold in 

 Chicago at ten and a half cents per pound, giving 

 him a net profit of one hundred and forty dollars. 



Mr. Baldwin, an English breeder of some note, 

 has used Indian corn, barley meal, and ground peas 

 in fattening hogs, but gives the preference to the corn. 

 He finds that two pounds of it will produce a pound 

 of pork. This result is higher than usual, and is 

 probably in part due to the breed of the animal. 



Though most of the above figures are better than 

 the average experience of feeders, they might gener- 

 ally be equalled, and some of them surpassed by a 

 majority of farmers, if more careful attention were 

 given to the subject. 



