The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-19

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fattened from three to four hundred head Of
hogs every fall. These hogs are purchased
in small lots of different persons, during the
months Of Juy and August. About the
first OF Septem ger, or as soon as the corn
is good for roasting fence off some three
acres, where they can have access to water;
they are turned into this small lot, to begin
with, and the next day the corn and most of
the stocks will have disappeared, depending
of course on the number of hogs. Every
other day, until the last week in October,
there is added to this small lot some three
acres of corn. For convenience, and TO
save time, the Vandermarke patent fence is
used; the panels are made OF poplar or
pine boards ten feet long, four inches wide,
with strips of oak lath, three feet ten inches
long, to hold them together; wrought nails
are used, 1.-TWO and half inches long, and
are well bent over and clinched. Two
hands with yoke of cattle and wagon
can haul twenty-six panels of fencing at
load and it takes but a short time to in
crease lot from three to six acres, or from
six to nine; and so on until you have hog
ged down as much as you wish. The hogs
are then placed in small lots, and the COIN
is busked out and hauled to them.
Last fall. turned my hogs into the corn
field on the 10th of September, after hav-
ing weighed them all they were taken out
about the 23d of October, weighed and
placed in a small lot. During this time,
that is from September 10th to October Odd,
they ate down forty acres of corn and esti-
mating it at forty bushels to the acre, the
increased weight of the hogs, at four cents
a pound, just paid forty cents a bushel for
the corn they had eaten.
Some two days after or about the 25th
of October, | selected out of the lot one
hundred hogs, weighing or averaging two
hundred pounds each these were placed in
nine large covered pens, with plank floors
and troughs, and fed as follows The corn
was ground up, cob and ALL in one of the
the g Little Giant steam mills; steamed
and fed at six and nine s.. NJ, twelve NJ,
three and six P. NJ, or FIVE times day, all
they could eat, and in exactly one week
they were weighed again; the corn they had
eaten was weighed also; and calling 70
pounds busheI of corn, and pork as before,
4 cents (gross) it was equal to eighty cents
per bushel for corn. The weather was
quite warm here for the season of the year.
The first week in November | tried the
same experiment on the same lot of hogs,
the weather being colder. The third week,
same month, with same lot of hogs corn
brought 40 cents, and the weather still get
ting colder. The fourth week same as
above, corn brought 26 cents weather still
colder. This lot of hogs were sold off at
this time, and another lot put up, which had
been fed in the lot, on corn in the cob
This lot was weighed, and fed as above, the
five weeks of December, and the corn fed
averaged &c cents bushel, the weather he
ing about the same as the last. The lot was
tried again in the middle of December, the
corn fed for that week averaging only
cents per bushel; at that time the thermom-
eter stood at zero. This same lot was tried
again, and just held their own, the Their
mometer being below zero, sometimes rs
low as 10 degrees
From the above experiments, it will not
pay as general thing TO feed corn to hogs,
after the middle of November, unless the
price of corn should fall below that of
late years.-B. Duncans Falls, July %.
Tine above meets our views exactly in re-
gard to feeding, and is strictly in accord
ance with the known laws OF physiology.
When the weather is comfortable, animals
lay on fat, if they can obtain sufficient food,
as a spare store of fuel to meet the coming
cold of winter but when the weather
is very cold, the carbon of the food (fatl is
burnt to sustain life. Place stock under
shelter, aud we have artificial mild
weather in which they will gain flesh. Such
experiments as the above, show the har
mony which exists between science and
practical experience.-ED. o. F.