CHAPTER XIX. 



CORN. 



Pounds of Pork from a Bushel of Corn. As in nearly all 

 live-stock investigations, wide variations have occurred in con- 

 nection with this apparently simple problem. Farmers have 

 been asked to report results through the agricultural papers, 

 and numerous results have been obtained from experiment sta- 

 tions. Professor Robbins, of the Iowa Experiment Station, 

 presents a very concise summing up of the question in the 

 columns of The Breeder's Gazette, where he gives the following 

 table: 



The results given in the table are from tests where only 

 whole corn was fed, no supplementary feeds or pasture being 

 used. The results from farmers and experiment stations agree 

 very closely, and confirm the general belief that hogs on full 

 feed of whole corn should gain about one pound per day, and 

 make ten pounds of pork from a bushel of corn. This is not 

 a large return from a bushel of corn, but the method of feeding 

 is not the most economical. 



Whole Corn vs. Ground Corn. The Wisconsin Experi- 

 ment Station has conducted exhaustive experiments with whole 

 corn and ground corn for fattening swine. The experiments 



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