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It is not advisable to turn 

 ]i(jgs into the entire corn field, nor to allow them access 

 to the standing- corn too early, as the grain will not then 

 liave the feeding value it has after full maturity, and the 

 hog-s are more liable to the ailments that may come from 

 using new corn. ''Maturity" does not, however, neces- 

 sarily mean, for this purpose, that the corn must be 

 llinty or even hard. 



Before hogs are put on full feed on new corn they 

 should be prepared for it by a gradual introduction ; this 

 may be by g-iving them green corn, stalks and ears, in 

 increasing quantities along with their dry feed. 1^hus 

 the chang-e from old to new feed or from dry to fresh 

 feed is not made so rapidly that the hogs suffer. If 

 ihey are turned into an acre or two at a time, or not 

 more than they can clear up in a period of two weeks, 

 best results will be secured. The portion of the field 

 set aside for them may be separated from the rest by 

 a temporary fence or hurdles. .V wire fence with posts 

 temporaril}- located as wanted is sometmies used, but 

 wire fencing is difficult to handle in heavy corn. 



"Hogging off" corn is most advantageous when the 

 weather is dr}-. It is not judicious to keep hogs in 

 the fields after heavy rains. If the season is a wet one 

 it will be better to keep them out (^f the corn field, as 

 turning them in is likely to waste the corn and do in- 

 jury to the hogs and to the land. On dry ground, how- 

 ever, the droppings by the hogs amount to a distribution 

 of valuable manure. In case this is liable to be washed 

 off the land by rains after the corn has been harvested it 

 will be well to go over the field with a sharp disk or 



