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than those that have been treated by the ordinary methods of harvest- 

 ing. Hogs waste no more corn in field than when fed in yard. They 

 pick the corn as clean as most men do in husking. Three pounds of 

 rape, costing 15 cents, sown in corn at last cultivation, furnishes con- 

 siderable succulent feed, which may take the place of high priced 

 shorts. Labor in caring for hogs is not increased by hogging corn, but 

 may be decreased, if systematic methods are employed. It is not ex- 

 pected that all com raised be fed off with hogs, but the amount they 

 can clean up from the time it is nicely glazed until the weather be- 

 comes unfavorable, may be very economically fed in this way. Hogs 

 should not, as a rule, be turned into more corn at one time than they 

 can eat up clean in two or three weeks. The shorter period is pref- 

 erable. (Minn. B. 104.) 



Supplements for Corn. Large consumption of feed and large 

 gains in weight are essential to the most profitable use of supplement- 

 ary feeds. Corn is more rich in protein than is necessary in a mere 

 maintenance ration, but the further we get from the maintenance 

 ration, that is, the more flesh we produce in a given time, the less 

 efficient is corn alone, and the greater is the need of supplements. 

 This principle receives constant recognition from dairymen, who 

 know that the more milk a cow produces, the narrower must be her 

 ration, but we do not happen to have seen the point mentioned in con- 

 nection with meat production. It is, of course, so obviously true as to 

 need no proof. (Mo. B. 81.) 



It has been shown that the southern farmer can not afford to use 

 corn alone as a fattening ration for swine. Fortunately for the South, 

 it is not necessary to depend upon corn alone, as almost all the crops 

 which can be grown in any part of the country can be grown in the 

 South, and there are many crops suitable for hog feed which can be 

 grown in no other section of the country. This section is wonder- 

 fully blessed in its great variety of grain and concentrates, and in ad- 

 dition green and pasture crops can be made to spread over 12 months 

 of the year. In fact, with the use of pasture crops the South is in a 

 position to make pork cheaper than any other section of the United 

 States. 



As stated before, the hog likes a variety of feeds and thrives bet- 

 ter upon a ration made up of two or more feeds than upon one made 

 up of but one. It has proved by several of the experiment stations 

 that wheat and corn, when fed separately to fattening hogs, are 

 practically equal in feeding value. At the Wisconsin Experiment 

 Station several tests were made to learn the relative value of wheat 

 and a mixture of wheat and corn in equal parts. It was found that 

 500 pounds of wheat were required to make 100 pounds of gain, but 

 when wheat and corn were fed in equal parts only 485 pounds of the 

 mixture were required to make the same gain. When fed separately, 

 these grains are of equal feeding value, but the mixture of the two 

 was more valuable than either grain when fed alone. While the 

 South has not the wheat, yet the Wisconsin experiments teach the 

 lesson that if the most is to be realized upon the hog and the corn a 

 supplementary feed must go along with the corn. (F. B. 411.) 



