218 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Louis. I received some seed from the department 

 at Washington of a variety called the " Boston Favorite." 

 They are a yellow squash, and grow very large. They will 

 grow to weigh forty or fifty pounds. They are not a good 

 family squash ; for our table we use a different squash. But 

 we find that they give us good satisfaction in pig feeding. In 

 fact, I am not very particular what kind of squash I have for 

 my hog feeding, if I can get enough of them and if they 

 contain enough sugar. I like those that are very mealy. 

 The squash to which I have referred is a very meaty squash. 



The Chairman. That is what we call the old-fashioned 

 marrow here. 



Mr. Louis. Maybe it is. 



Question. Do you think there can be any profit in 

 making pork wdien corn is eighty cents a bushel and pork six 

 cents a pound ? 



Mr. Louis. That would largely depend upon whether 

 you feed the hog on corn alone. If you had such a system 

 of feeding as I have on my farm, — if you had considerable 

 clover and other feed mixed with it, — then you might 

 possibly do it. Feeding my hogs in that way, I get them 

 up to two hundred and fifty pounds at comparatively little 

 cost. 



Mr. . I am obliged to use corn or corn meal 



largely, and it seems to me that from the time they are cut off 

 from their milk until I am obliged to sell them I lose monev 

 on them every hour. The great trouble is that they are 

 ready for the market at a time when there is so much 

 poultry that it is very difficult to sell them, so that I keep 

 them oftentimes some weeks longer than I wish to. Every- 

 body is crowding his hogs upon the market, and the 

 butchers will only offer perhaps five or five and a half cents 

 a pound. 



Mr. Louis. Very true ; but, if you take the difference 

 between the cost of feeding them if you sell them at two 

 hundred pounds and if you sell them at four hundred 

 pounds, you will find that you had better sell them when 

 they reach the smaller weight. 



Mr. . My experience is that, when corn is as high 



:is i< is now, and pork as low, it is a loss to feed hogs. 



