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carry his pigs tlirongli on these cheap home-grown feeds 

 until he can grow the corn to finish them off. Do not 

 stop growing hogs because corn is high. Grow all the 

 more, and take this way of producing the frames cheaply 

 to be finished off on next year's corn crop." 



Ev'en when corn is high the relative price for pork fre- 

 quently makes it tlie cheapest feed for finishing; fifty- 

 cent corn is not expensive feed for six-cent hogs. Up 

 to the last six weeks of feeding, wheat, rye or other 

 ciieaper substitutes may be used witli grass, but in the 

 ordinary course corn will be the best dependence for the 

 close of the fattening period. 



THE SOUTH CAN RAISE PORK 



In some of the southern states, where cotton is made 

 tile paramount crop, small attention, relatively, is given 

 to pork production, greatly to the disadvantage of the 

 people whose supply of hog-products must be procured 

 from a distance and always at high cost. These states 

 not being regarded as corn-growing territory in any con- 

 siderable way, and the chief attention there being given 

 to cotton-growing, the idea has always prevailed that 

 the pork and lard needed there could be purchased more 

 economically than they could be produced. 



An experiment reported (Bulletin No. T07) from the 

 branch experiment station at Delta. Panola count}^ 

 (northwestern) Mississippi, seems to refute the idea 

 that pork, and some corn as well, cannot be raised to ad- 

 vantage in the South, and a gist of the report is presented 



