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ble to import foods and feed them to the hogs at a profit, 

 the most profitable hog farming comes from feeding the 

 kinds of feed produced in the locality where you live. 



The plan of feeding green corn to hogs has been 

 more generally practised and more generally con- 

 demned by agricultural writers perhaps than any other; 

 and yet in the face of all that has been said and writ- 

 ten, I have never fed any feed, either home grown or 

 imported, with as much satisfaction as I have green 

 corn. I have never fed anything that seemed to bring 

 about such a marked change for the better. It seems 

 to me that I could notice a change in less than three 

 days. The hair begins to look glossy, the appetite 

 seems to improve, the whole appearance is changed. 

 I may not be as skilful a feeder as others, but I am 

 sure I have put on as many pounds in thirty days with 

 green corn as I ever did in double the time with any 

 other kind of feed. 



Now I am aware that I am treading on dangerous 

 ground, for all the ills that the hog is heir to or has 

 been cursed with ( save possibly the rushing down the 

 hillside into the sea of the five thousand) have been 

 attributed to the feeding of green corn. Many com- 

 paratively able writers claim that it is a never failing 

 cause of hog cholera. It is true that many hogs fed on 

 green corn have sickened and died while being thus 

 fed, but this by no means establishes the fact that the 

 green corn was the cause of the disease being con- 

 tracted. I am fully convinced that the only analogy 

 there is between hog cholera and green corn is the 

 fact that more hogs die at the season when green corn 

 is fed than at any other. 



