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green corn. When thin from suckling pigs, or are un- 
thrifty from any cause, they will quickly flesh up and 
improve and be ready for market in from 30 to 50 days. 
While corn may be hogged off at any period, it is best 
to let it mature somewhat. Then you get.all there is in the 
crop. If the ordinary summer pasture is short give some 
additional feed, like shorts and middlings, in slop, to tide 
along until the corn is fairly well developed. When it 
passes the milk stage, and is somewhat dented, the hogs 
may be turned into the field. The entire field is usually 
given over to the hogs, when labor is high, the soil not 
wet, and the herd and the field not large in size. Use old 
hogs, stock hogs and brood sows for cleaning up after 
the fattening bunch has been taken away. Not much 
will be left, but still there will be some; if this were not 
so, the fattening hogs would have been fed rather un- 
wisely for the last week or two. 
