CHAPTER X 

 HOGGING-DOWN CORN 



At one time "hogging-down" corn was looked on by 

 most farmers as a shiftless wasteful method of feeding; 

 but the many advantages of this method of harvesting 

 a part of the corn crop, as well as the good results in 

 gains made by the hogs, has caused the practice markedly 

 to increase during the last ten or fifteen years. The 

 increasing scarcity of labor and the favorable reports 

 from experimental tests have largely been responsible 

 for a change in attitude among those farmers who formerly 

 looked on the practice with disfavor. 



"hogging-down" versus yakd feeding 



The experimental studies at the Minnesota and Iowa 

 Experiment Stations ^ have demonstrated that pigs 

 do as well, and a little better, when harvesting' their own 

 corn as when the corn is husked in the usual way and 

 fed to them at the barn. In Table LXXXII are the 

 results of four direct comparisons of the "hogging-down" 

 and the common yard, or dry lot, methods of feeding. 



In the two Minnesota experiments, shorts were fed 

 in each lot at the rate of 1 part shorts to about 4 parts 

 of corn. In each of these tests, also, the pigs eating 

 the standing corn had rape in addition, the result of 



' Gamnnitz, Wilson, Bassett, Minn. Exp. Sta. Bull. 104. 

 Eward, Kennedy, Kildee, Iowa Ejcp. Sta. Bull. 143. 



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