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ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 
selling the pigs. This process is accomplished most 
economically by “hogging off” corn, kafir, or rye. A 
small field should be fenced temporarily. The hogs 
will do their own feeding, needing only plenty of water, 
charcoal, salt, and tankage or cottonseed meal. Very 
little feed is wasted in “hogging off,” and older sows 
with pigs will follow up to finish eating the waste grain. 
The above method avoids the expense of harvesting the 
crop and also of carrying feed to the hogs. 
Fig. 83.—A creep for pigs. 
Marketing.— When a hog weighs from two hundred 
to two hundred and fifty pounds, he is ready to sell. 
The object should be to have the hogs weighing about 
that much at a time when there is the greatest demand 
and when the price is the highest. Many farmers do 
not raise enough hogs to ship directly to a large market, 
and they must depend upon disposing of their sur¬ 
plus at home. However, this may be avoided by ar¬ 
ranging to sell when four or five neighbors have hogs 
for sale. They may then combine their shipment to 
