Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-28
Pork in q Bushel of Corn.

Corn, as usually estimated by farmers,
at seventy-two to seventy-five 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 10 twenty pounds gain for a 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 over 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 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 as best tLey 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,
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,
as'carefuly conducted as appliances would
admit, made upon the pure-bred Suffolk
swine of fifteen to twenty years ago, we
found that for corn fed whole al fifty cents
| per bushel, the pork must net five and
one-half cents per pound gross, to pay for
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-fiye 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 a half centsper bushel,
producing fourteen pounds pork, at four
and Il 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-Seven 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
that at less than forty cents per pushed, il
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 cost:
no more to cook and grind corn wortl
81. 90 per bushcl, than it does when it i:
worth only twenty-five cents. Hence The
great difference between agricultural econ
omy in the Eastern States and at The
West. There the feeder would impover
ish himself, in feeding unground or un
cooked corn; here the same result woulC
follow from grinding and cooking corn a
twenty-fiv cents per bushel.
There is no doubt but 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 cor
, fed whole, if the pasturage is not est
mated. The manurial value TO the fiel
from the hogs fed thereon will fully con
: pensate for the use of the pasture.
! With corn at twenty to twenty-fiv
1 1 cents per bushel, and hogs at three cent
= per pound on foot, there is still money
! pork if it is economically handled; ;
u least more money than in the same cor
{ at twenty-five TO thirty cents per bushe
;, -UeStern RHIuL