Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-01-18
Pork in a Hus.lci III Corn

Corn is usually estimated by farm.
ers at seventy-two to seventy-ive
pounds of EARS per bushel, Will bring
| the shelied corn product, to sixty or
six,y-two pounds per bushel, as the
actual amount shclled from sound
corn.
An Iowa man says that various ex-
! perlmen.s have proved the fact that
corn ted to hogs has produced all
the way from two to twenty pounds
gain for a bushel, according TO the
different modes Of preparing the
feed, and the age, breed or condition
OF the hogs id. He is satisfied that
one he.!!.. of the hogs fed III Iowa. do
not produce over five pounds gross
weight for each bushel Of corn fed,
which counting hogs at So per one
hundred pounds, gives fifteen cents
per bushel for corn.
1t would be very difficult, We
think, to get twenty poands OF pork
| from q bushcl of corn, even under
The most favorable circumstances
But we are we'll assured that two
pounds per bushel, and even less, is
sometimes realized, whore hogs are
fed on the ground, and lett TO s'a,..
for themselves for shelter as best
they may. From our own expert.
ments, in former Yeas. We have nev-
er 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, i, realized mne lbs. !;
cooked in a tour barrel caul1ron, OH
the ear, till the grain burst, fourteen
lbs. were realized per bushel. These
arc the results in even pounds. From
these experiments, as carefully con
| Quoted as our appliances would AL
NIT, made upon the pure Suffolk
swine 81 fifteen to twenty years ago,
we found that tor corn fed whole at
SO cents per bushel, the pork must
net ST cents per pound gross, to pay
tor tho food consumed.
The grinding we estimated At 12l
cents per bushel, and the cooking ut
the same figure. This would bring
the bushel OF gro, nd and cooked
corn TO Is cents per bushel, equal to
lG lbs. OF pork, or 4 and ! 10th cents
nearly, per pound; or, cooked on the
ear at III cents. eqnal to 623 cents
per bushc!, producing IA lbs. Of pork
at Al cents per H., nearly. Thore.
fore, with pork at the average price
of3 cents per pound, g,oss, in the
country markets, the corn is worth
to the feeder, q cents and ? mills
per hnshel !; estimating the cost oil
feeding and the cost Of hauling TO
market, as being equal.
The result of these experiments
were, that at less han 40 cents per
bushe', it would not pay to either
cook or grind corn; and, that the ra.
tic OF profits is increased with the
alvsnce in price, from the minimum
OF 40 cents as the initial point, and,
progressively; since it costs no more
to cook and grind corn worth 81 per
bushel. than it does when il is worth
only Is cents. Hence the great dit.
ference between agricultural O y
nv in the Eastern States and at the
Yves. There the feeder would i'm.
poverls;. himself. in NEEDING unground
or uncookad corn; here .Nc same re.
suit would follow from grinding and
cooking corn a: % cents a buskel;
and hence the nee ss,ty OF taking q
journal devoted to the interests o, |
practica! agriculture ana technology, |
in the section of country which it rep
There is no doubt bat that swine,
they have Tho run ot 4 good
pasture. with dry shelter for
odging. and feeling, will realize
rom Is to Is pounds tor each bushel
II corn ted whole, it the pastnrage Is
lot estimated. The manurral value (.
o the field from the hogs fed there.
~, will tuly compensate tor the use
II the pasture.
With rorn at p to IS cents per
an! hogs at cents per ID. on +
DOT, there is still money in pork il 1t
economically hanlied ; ut least |
lore money than in The same corn ut
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