Hogging-down Com 



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broadcasting in the corn at the rate of 3 pounds of seed 

 to the acre just before the last cultivation. The fact 

 that the yard-fed pigs did not have access to a forage 

 crop would naturally tend to insure more rapid and 

 economical gains for the field-fed pigs. In the first Iowa 

 experiment, no supplement was fed in either lot ; in the 

 second, suflicient meat-meal was supplied in each lot 

 to make up approximately 10 per cent of the gain eaten. 



Table LXXXII. — Hogging-Down Corn versus Yard Feed- 

 ing (Minn, and Iowa Experiment Stations) 



1 Corn was figured on the shelled basis. 

 ^ Green weight of com, not shrunk. 



