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PROFITABLE STOCK RAISING 



from an economical standpoint brought about by 

 the reduced bill for labor. Pork was produced with 

 less grain by hogging corn than by feeding 

 ear or snapped corn in yards. Hogs fed in fields 

 gained nearly one-third more rapidly than those fed 

 in yards. The cost of fencing the corn field may 

 be from $i to $2.50 less per acre than the cost of 

 husking corn. It requires no more labor to pre- 

 pare for subsequent 

 crops fields that 

 have been hogged 

 off than those that 

 have been treated 

 by the ordinary 

 methods of harvest- 



MOVABLE HOG SHELTER ing. HogS waste 



no more corn in 



the field than when fed in a yard. They pick the 

 corn as clean as most men do in husking. Labor 

 in caring for hogs is not increased by hogging off 

 corn, but may be decreased if systematic methods 

 are employed. 



FATTENING RATIONS 



It is coming to be generally recognized that so 

 far as health, thrift and rapidity of gains are con- 

 cerned, corn alone, at least in dry-lot feeding, does 

 not give as satisfactory results, especially for grow- 

 ing pigs, as a combination of corn and some feed 

 adding protein to the ration. Wheat shorts is very 

 commonly considered the best feed to use with 

 corn for young pigs, but other feeds are on the 

 market which contain still larger quantities of pro- 

 tein, and their merits for pig feeding deserve in- 

 vestigation. With this object in view, the Iowa ex- 

 periment station conducted a series of experiments. 



