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treatment can be carried on during the first year. If it is 

 planned to put them on an early market, and at a weight 

 of from 200 to 250 pounds, the ration can be somewhat 

 changed for the last sixty days by using more corn and a 

 little less of the other kinds of feed. 



Probably better weights can be made and much more 

 economically with ninety per cent corn and ten per cent 

 tankage. This ration, by actual use, put a car of hogs 

 on the market that topped the market, and showed by 

 records to have been made at a less cost than those that 

 were fed corn alone. It is a well-known fact that the first 

 one hundred pounds of growth of any hog is made at a 

 much less expense than any other subsequent one hundred 

 pounds. So it is economy to feed all the good feed that 

 can be properly digested from birth to maturity. 



There are feeders, and always have been, and probably 

 always will be, who pay little attention to their pigs dur- 

 ing the growing period of the first six months, believing 

 that if they are turned out into any old pasture and can 

 get water to drink, that they can grow a frame and some 

 size at little or no cost. This may do for the careless 

 farmer, who does not wish to give any time to his crop of 

 pigs, expecting to do it all after they have lived long 

 enough to develop some frame, which is in some way to be 

 covered up and rounded out with an all-corn ration thrown 

 out to them in any kind of a yard, in any season, expecting 

 them to make pork at small expense and little time given 

 to their care. This may be satisfactory to that class of 

 men, but it has always been our plan and belief that the 

 mother's milk fat of the little pig should never be lost, but 

 be increased by liberal and proper rations during its entire 

 life. 



Carrying the Pigs on After Six Months of Age Until Marketing. 

 After the pigs have come to about the age of six 

 months, there should not be much change in the feed 

 from what they have had since weaning time; how- 

 ever it is well at this time to increase the com or the fat 

 producing element in their feed, and reduce somewhat the 

 other elements. Probably at this time there is nothing 

 better than a rape pasture with what com the pigs would 

 clean up each day, with the addition of about 10% in weight 



