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FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



and the hogs do better than by some other methods. 

 That is the point : you get the most pork at the least 

 expenditure of money. 



Not only do hogs produce more with less grain 

 in hogging off, but they actually mature in less 

 time than when pen fed. It is not unusual to save 

 at least a quarter of the fattening period where this 

 method is followed. It is just as easy to prepare 



HOGGING OFF THE CORN 



Hogs are here harvesting the corn crop. They not only eat all of the 

 ears, but consume the greater part of the stalks. When the fat hogs are 

 removed brood sows and pigs should be turned into the field to clean up. 



land for a subsequent crop after a corn crop has been 

 harvested by hogs as when the corn has been re- 

 moved in the ordinary way. The hogs waste no 

 more grain by hogging off than is lost- by ordinary 

 husking. Hogs pick just about as clean as huskers. 

 The labor item is not inconsiderable, either. A 

 five to ten-acre field of good corn will carry 50 to 75 

 hogs from the shote to the finished period. Of course 



