FORAGE CROPS FOR HOGS IN KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA. 49 
One man in Ohio turned 122 spring pigs and older hogs into a 10- 
acre cornfield in September. The total weight of the hogs was 15,693 
pounds. The spring pigs averaged 82 pounds and the older hogs 156 
pounds. There was about the same number of each kind. The corn 
would yield about 60 bushels an acre, and in it there were a good 
many pumpkins. The hogs had access also to a 5-acre clover field 
from which the seed had been removed. Water was hauled to them 
and they had the shade of the woods near by. In twenty-eight days 
the hogs had gained 6,522 pounds. At this time 57 head were sold, 
averaging 245 pounds, bringing $5.15 per hundred. The remainder 
were not sold, but the farmer was offered $5 per hundred for them. 
Counting the entire gain of 6,522 pounds at $5 would make $327.60, 
or $31.20 per acre for the field. This paid 52 cents a bushel for the 
corn which on the market was worth 40 cents. The whole herd of 
hogs made an average daily gain of 1.92 pounds. 
Another man in southern Kansas makes a practice of “hogging 
down” corn. He uses a portable fence and fences off 5 to 10 acres 
at a time, taking in more as needed. He turns the hogs in the corn 
in August. On 12 acres of corn one year he fattened 50 head of 
hogs, using about 600 bushels of corn. Of the bunch 42 head were 
sold, averaging 240 pounds, netting $600. Allowing 100 pounds 
gain for each hog on the corn thus fed, the corn brought 414 cents 
a bushel, without the expense of gathering. 
Another man in Oklahoma has been “ hogging down” corn for a 
number of years. About 500 head of hogs are turned off this farm 
every year. By gathering and weighing corn beside that which was 
gathered by hogs, it Was found that a bushel of corn “ hogged down” 
will make as much pork as the same quantity husked and fed, while 
the expense of harvesting is saved; besides saving the labor of feed- 
ing the corn to the hogs the field is also cleaned up better than a 
husked field. 
An Iowa farmer began hogging down corn several years ago, using 
20 acres the first year. He watched carefully the feeding of the 
hogs on this field and concluded that no more corn was wasted than 
would have been left in the field by the average husker. Since that 
time he has hogged down all his corn, thus saving the expense of 
husking. This man says the cost of husking for one year will fence 
the field hog-tight if there is already a wire fence for cattle. Husk- 
ing 40 acres of corn yielding 40 bushels per acre, at 4 cents per 
bushel—it has cost nearer 5 cents the last season (1907), figuring 
board, ete.—-amounts to $64. If the 40 acres are a square field this 
allows 20 cents a rod for the fence the first year. With a cattle 
fence already provided this will buy the wire to make it a good 
hog-tight fence. Besides this there are two other great objects to 
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