2JO SWINE IN AMERICA 



T\\t foregoing are merely adaptations of the farmer's 

 rule that hogs are fed with profit when the corn con- 

 sumed costs around ten cents a bushel for each dollar 

 per lOO pounds received for the fatted hogs, live weight. 



QUANTITY OF CORN REQUIRED 



Toward solving the problem as to the corn required 

 to bring a hog to 200 or 250 pounds, live weight, the best 

 help is experience, obtained with hogs in their pens and 

 pastures, and none has more of that character about it 

 than some recited by John Cownie of Iowa : 



"I can answer that question," says Mr. Cownie, "for 

 I have weighed, not one or a dozen of hogs, but hundreds 

 of them, at all ages and under common farm conditions. 

 With good, thrifty hogs weighing 200 pounds, and the 

 range of a good clover pasture, I have secured a gain of 

 15 pounds, live weight, for each bushel of corn. With 

 well-bred, thrifty hogs, confined to a feeding floor and 

 being fattened to a finish, with no other food but ear corn 

 and water, I consider 14 pounds of ear corn daily for 

 hogs weighing 250 to 300 pounds an average allowance, 

 and the g^ain should be about two pounds daily. In other 

 words, a hog of these weights will consume a bushel of 

 corn in five days and make a gain of ten pounds. These 

 are no guesswork figures or experiments with a few 

 hogs, but the results of feeding hundreds, I might truth- 

 fully say thousands, with every ear of corn weighed, the 

 hogs weighed every four weeks, and each and every part 

 of the work done by myself and every figure verified so 

 as to make errors impossible. 



