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 tot 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 11th 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 Int, 1.09° 
pounds. 
The amount of feed consumed per 100 pounds of gain was 
as follows: 
