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corn is required to grow a 300-pound hog. To ship this 

 corn to New York would cost $2.46 in carload lots. The 

 300-pound hog would produce about 225 pounds of dressed 

 pork that could be shipped for $1.01. On every hog 

 thus produced, the freight rates make a difference of $1.45 

 in favor of growing the hog in Illinois. As a matter of 

 fact, the difference is much more than this. The com- 

 missions and cost for handling corn are greater than for 

 handling the pork produced by it. The farm price of 

 corn is 24 cents more in New York than in Illinois, or 

 a difference of about three times the freight cost. 



The average farm price of corn on December first for five 

 years (1907-1911) has been 47 cents in Iowa and 73 cents 

 in New York. If an Iowa farmer uses 30 bushels of corn 

 to grow a 300-pound hog, his feed will be worth $14.10. 

 The same feed would be worth $21.90 in New York, or a 

 difference in cost of $7.80 on every 300-pound hog raised. 

 There are no figures showing the average price that farmers 

 receive for hogs. By correspondence, I have obtained 

 prices paid to farmers at the same date in the two regions. 

 The difference is rarely as much as one cent a pound, or 

 about $3 per hog. This would leave a difference of about 

 $4 per hog in favor of Iowa. If the hogs are pastured on 

 clover, the Iowa farmer has a still greater advantage, as 

 the difference in the price of hay that is thus lost is still 

 more in his favor. 



A considerable number of hogs are raised in New York 

 to consume waste products, such as whey, skim milk, 

 garbage from the cities and villages. Aside from hogs thus 

 fed, most of the hogs are grown for home use. On April 

 1, 1910, there was an average of three hogs and pigs per 

 farm in New York. In Iowa the average was 35. 



It often pays to raise products for home use that it would 



