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the nature of the corn whether the crop is heavy 

 or light will govern the number of hogs that can be 

 fed in this way, but the total quantity of pork pro- 

 duced from a given acreage when hogged off will be 

 greater than when husked ears or snapped corn is 

 fed in pens. 



Young Hogs, Weighing 80 to 125 Pounds, will 

 do best in the green cornfield. At this size they 

 possess good frames, are mature enough, and carry 

 enough flesh to fatten in a few weeks and be ready 

 for market. Of course, brood sows will make good 

 use of green corn also. When thin from suckling 

 pigs, or for any cause they are unthrifty, they will 

 quickly flesh up and improve and be ready for mar- 

 ket in from 30 to 50 days. 



While corn may be hogged off at any period, it is 

 best to let it mature somewhat. Then you get all 

 there is in the crop. If the ordinary summer pas- 

 ture is short, give some additional feed like shorts 

 and middlings in slop to tide along until the corn 

 is fairly well developed. When it has passed the 

 milk stage, and is somewhat dented, the hogs may 

 be turned into the field. 



The entire field is usually given over to the hogs, 

 when labor is high, the soil not wet, and the herd 

 and the field not large in size. Use old hogs, stock 

 hogs and brood sows for cleaning up after the fat- 

 tening bunch has been taken away. Not much will 

 be left, of course, but still some; if this were not 

 so, the fattening hogs would have been fed rather 

 unwisely for the last week or two. 



