CORN 



Feed Consumed Per Hundred Pounds Gain. 



147 



Shorts 



Ear corn 



Total 



First trial . . . 

 Second trial . 



Average of two trials / 



Field lot 

 Yard lot 

 Field lot 

 Yard lot 

 Field lot 

 Yard lot 



lb3. 

 139 

 169 

 103 

 146 

 121 

 157 



lbs. 

 696 

 831 

 632 

 573 

 614 

 702 



lbs. 

 835 

 1000 

 635 

 719 

 735 

 859 



The larger amount of feed for 100 pounds gain in the 

 first trial, as compared with the second trial, is due to the 

 fact that the weight of the ear corn when first husked was 

 used in the first year's calculations, whereas the second trial 

 is calculated upon a cured corn basis, that is, corn dry enough 

 for market. 



Results. — It will be seen that the field hogs made larger 

 and more economical gains than the yard hogs in each 

 experiment. 



In the second experiment a third group of hogs was used. 

 These hogs were fed in a dry lot upon snapped com, — that is, 

 the ears of com without the husks removed. This lot occu- 

 pied an intermediate position, both in rate and economy of 

 gain, the snapped corn giving better results than the ear corn. 



A summary appearing in Bulletin 104 gives the following 

 notes: 



" The cost of fencing cornfields may be from $1.00 to $2.50 

 less per acre than the cost of husking." 



" It requires no more labor to prepare for subsequent crops, 

 fields that have been ' hogged off ' than those that have been 

 treated by the ordinary methods of harvesting." 



" Hogs waste no more com in field than when fed in yard. 

 They pick the com as clean as most men do in husking." 



