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But do not allow an unskilled or careless person 

 to feed green corn. Let it be commenced very mod- 

 erately and very carefully, and the amount gradually 

 increased until the full feed is reached, and I would 

 recommend that two weeks be occupied in reaching 

 the full ration. Green corn, fed as above indicated, is 

 as safe as any feed; that it is as economical I am not 

 prepared to say. I am rather inclined to think it is not. 



To cook or not to cook, to grind or not to grind, 

 seems to be something of a question; but from all that 

 can be gathered from the most reliable sources, possi- 

 bly the preponderance of evidence seems to be in favor 

 of whole grain fed without cooking. Of course there 

 are exceptional cases where cooking or grinding, or 

 both, are admissible, but as a rule neither will pay the 

 extra expense. I have known of numerous experi- 

 ments where hogs fed on whole grain, uncooked, act- 

 ually made a larger gain than when fed cooked grain, 

 either whole or ground. The practice of soaking corn 

 for about twenty-four hours, especially for young pigs, 

 may be tolerated, and still I am very strongly impressed 

 with the belief that young pigs will eat all the corn 

 they should have without soaking. 



AGED DUROC JERSEY, 



