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When used, you need not make more than two or 

 three movings during the time the hogs have the 

 field. This makes the hogs clean up as they move 

 along. But circumstances will govern as to 

 whether you ought to use such fences or not. You 

 will have to take expense, soil, nature of the sea- 

 son and length of feeding period into account. To 

 give the entire field over to the hogs is the general 

 practice when labor is high, the soil not wet, and 

 the herd and field not large in size. Use old hogs, 

 stock hogs and brood sows for cleaning up after the 

 fattening bunch has been taken away. There won't 

 be much left, of course, but still some ; if this were 

 not so, the fattening hogs would have been fed 

 rather unwisely for the last week or two. 



Saving Corn Fodder. — A ton of well-saved corn 

 fodder is worth, if well used, the price of a ton of 

 hay. Yet how rarely is it well saved or well spent ! 

 Exposed after husking to all the storms of fall and 

 winter, it becomes musty, mildewed, washed, and 

 weather beaten; hence a very poor fodder indeed. 

 When fed it is thrown in the roughest and most 

 careless way in the barnyard, where it is tramped 

 down in the snow and mire, and the following spring 

 is cursed as the greatest nuisance with which the 

 farmer has to contend. 



But let stalks be shocked up carefully, spread 

 well at the butts of the shock and tied closely at 

 the top until the corn is husked, and then put up in 

 convenient bundles and again set up so that the 

 rain cannot penetrate the shocks ; and if as soon as 

 cured it is carefully stacked or put away beneath 

 the tight roof, it becomes an agreeable-looking, 

 sweet-smelling, nutritious fodder, which will be 

 readily eaten by all sorts of stock. If it is cut up 



