Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-12
aara1 and dlouatstit.
srioa1tural.
Feeding Hogs,


For the last three years have Gsttcned
from three to four hundred head Of hogs every
fall. These hogs are purchased in small los
OF different persons, during the months Of July
and August. About the Ist OF September,
or as soon as the corn is good for roasting,
fence on some three acres where they can
have access to water; they are turned into
! this small lot to begin with, and the nrxt day
the corn and most of the stalks will have dis.
| appeared, 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 thee gcres of corn. For convenience,
! and to save time, Vandermarke's patent fence
is used the panels are made OF poplar OF
pine boards, ten feet long four inches vide,
sith strips Of oak laths three feet ten inches
long, to hold them together wrought nails
are Used, two and half inches long aud are
well bent over and cfitiEhedl Two hands With
yoke of cattle and wagon can haul twenty
six papels Of fencing at load, and il takes
but short time to increase a lot from three
to six acres, Of from six to nine and 50 on un-
II sor have hogged down as much as y6u
wish. The hogs are then placed in snail lots,
aAd the corn is husked out and haulcd TO
them. ~
Last fall tutned my hogs into the corndcld
on the 10th of September, after having weigh-
ed them all they were taken out about the
23d of October. 8eigtes grd b1aced in a small
lot. During this time, that is from Scpteinbsr
10th to October 23d, they ate down forty
acres Of corn ard estimating Il gt Efty bush
els to the acre, the increased weight OF The
hogs, at four cents potnd, just paid forty
cents a bushcl for the corn they had eaten, ~ 'u
.lso.-I~ two days after, or about the 2j,l of
October i selected out of the lot one hniKarsa
hogs, weighing or averaging two hun.ircd
pounds these were placed in nins large GOV,
cred pens. With plank floors and troughs, and
fed as follows; The corn was ground up. cob
and all, in one of the Little Giant stcantk
mills steamed and fed at 6 and 9 A. Ai,lZ
NJ, and and P. M, or FIVE times dag, sIt
they could eat, and in exactly one week they
were weighed again, the corn they had eaten
having been weighed also and calling 7Oibs.
d bushel of corn, aud pork as before, 4Ei;
(gross3 K was equal TO e0c. per bushel for
corn. The weather Tas quite warm here ,hf
the scasoh of the year. The first week in Mo-
Sember | tried the same experiment on the
same lot Of hogs, and the corn only btcYsift
G2 cents per bushel, the weather beihg colder !,
The third week. same month, with the same
lot Of hogs, corn brought 40 cents, and the
weather still getting colder. The fourth week
same as p&bove, corn brodgM rs cents, weather
still co.dlr. 1hfs lot of fogs we're spla Of at 3
that time, and another lot put up, Whieh had
been fed in the lot on corn in the cob This
lot was weighed and fed as above, the Eve
weeks Of December and the corn fed averaged
rs cents a bushsl, the Testher being about the
SarRe as the last This lot was tried again in
the middle of December, the corn fed for that
week averaging only 5 cents pei, ,6ushel; atss,
that time the thermometer stood at zero.-y
Vie SAME lot was tried again, and just held
their own; the thermometer being below zero.
as low as 10 deg
From Tire sboye experiments it will not pay
10 feed corn to hogs after the middle Of No
vember unle;s the price Of corn should fall bc-
low that Of late years. 5lts
Dun.an Falls. b. a
The above MEETS our views exactly in re
gard to feeding and is strictly in accordance
with the known laws of physiology. When p
the wearh is con Portable, animals lay on fat.
if they can obtain sufficient food, as q spare
store OF fue. to meet the coming cold of VIA
ter but when the weather is very cold, the,
carbon Of the food (fat) is burnt up to siistaia
life. Place stock under shelter, and We. hase
artificial mild weather in which they win gain
flesh Such experiments as the above show
the harmony which exists between science and
practical expeFience.-Eds Ohio Farmer.