146 RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN SWINE FEEDING 



is reported, four trials resulted in favor of whole corn and 

 seven in favor of ground corn. In one trial where whole corn 

 gave better results, the corn was soaked. 



Hogging off corn means turning the hogs into a field of 

 standing corn and allowing them to pull down the stalks and 

 consume the corn at will. 



The Minnesota Experiment Station has issued a most 

 interesting bulletin on this 'subject. Two experiments were 

 conducted in which hogs allowed the run of a cornfield were 

 compared with hogs fed in a dry lot on ear corn. In the first 

 experiment no shelter was provided for either lot, but they 

 were given straw for bedding. In the second experiment 

 the yard hogs were given shelter, but the field hogs were treated 

 as before, 



Shorts were fed to each lot as a supplement to the corn, 

 at the rate of one pound of shorts per day per hundred pounds 

 weight of the pigs. 



In the first trial there were 26 field hogs and 13 yard 

 hogs; and in the second trial, 32 field hogs and 8 yard hogs. 



The first trial commenced October llth and ended 

 November 29th. The second trial commenced September 19th 

 and ended November 9th. 



In each trial the field hogs were given an acre of corn at 

 a time, instead of being allowed the run of the whole field. 



The ear corn consumed by the field hogs had to be estimated 

 by taking samples. 



The average daily gain per hog in the two trials was as 

 follows : 



First trial: Field lot, 1.3 pounds; ear-corn lot, .98 pound. 



Second trial: Field lot, 1.44 pounds; ear-corn lot, 1.09 

 pounds. 



The amount of feed consumed per 100 pounds of gain was 

 as follows: 



