Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29
Pork in a Bnshel Of Corn.

Corn, as usually estimated by farmers,
at seventy-two to seventy-tiye pounds per
bushel, will bring the shelled corn pro
duct to sixty or sixty-two pounds per bush
ell, as the actual amount shelled from
sound corn.
An Iowa man says that various expert
ments have proved the fact that corn fed
to hogs has produced all the way from
two to twenty pounds gain for bushel,
according to the different modes Of prepar
ing the feed, and the age, breed or condi
ton of hogs fed. He is satisfied that one
half of all the hogs fed in Iowa do not
produce owe. five pounds gross weight for
each bushel of corn fed, which, counting
hogs at $500 per hundred pounds, gives
fifteen cents per bushel for corn.
1t would be very difficult, we think, to
get twenty pounds of pork from a bushel
of corn, even under the most favorable
circumstances But we are well assured
that two pounds per bushel, and even less,
is sometimes realized, where hogs are fed
on the ground and left to shift for them
selves for shelter us best trey may. From
our own experiments, in former years,
we have never realized more than sixteen
pounds for each bushel Of corn fed, and
this with warm, clean pens, the corn
coarsely ground and cooked. Fed on the
ear, dry, it realized nine pounds cooked,
I in four barrel cauldron, on the ear, until
/ the grains burst, fourteen pounds were
/ realized per bushel. These are the results
in even pounds. From these experiments,
ss'carefuly conducted rs appliances would
! admit, made upon the pure-hred Suffolk
! swine of fifteen to twenty years ago, We
! found that for corn fed whole a. fifty cents
per bushel, the pork must net five and
g1f tn I.Ar
the food consumed.
The grinding we estimated at twelve
and half cents per bushel, and the cook
ing at the same figure. This would bring
the bushel of ground and cooked corn to
| seventy-fve cents per bushel, equal to
sixteen pounds of pork, or four and seven
tenth cents, nearly, per pound; or cooked
on the ear at twelve and half cents, equal
to siXty-two and half cents per bushel,
producing fourteen pounds pork, at four
and half cents Per pound, nearly.
Therefore with pork at the average price
of three cents per pound, gross in the
country markets, the corn is worth to the
feeder, twenty-sevcn cents and two mills
per bushel; estimating the cost of feeding
and the cost of hauling to market, as be-
ing equal
The result of. these experiments were,
tnat at less than forty cents per Dusleu, II
would not pay to either cook, or grind
corn; and, that the ratio of profits is in
creased with the advance in price, from
the minimum Of forty cents as the initia
point, and, progressively; since it costs
no more 10 cook and grind corn wortl
$1.00 per bushel, than it does when it i,
worth only twenty-five cents. Hence tho
great difference between agricultural econ
, omy in the Eastern States and at the
| West. There the feeder would inlpover
ish himself, in feeding unground or un
cooked corn; here the same result woulC
: follow from grinding and cooking corn a
. twenty-five cents per bushel.
: There is no doubt bat that swine, wher
they have the run of good summer pas
. ture, with dry shelter for lodging ant
, feeding, will realize from fifteen t.
eighteen pounds for each bushel of corr
> fed whole, if The pasturage is not est
: mated The manurial value to the tiel
q from the hogs fed thereon will fully CON
+ pensate for the use Of the pasture.
y With corn at twenty to twenty-iy
y cents per bushel, and hogs at three cent
e per pound on foot, there is still money i
u pork if it is economically handled; {
n n least more money than in the same cor
g at twenty five TO thirty cents per bushe
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