The Portland daily press., 1880-02-25
When to Feed Corn for Fattenning Hogs

When to Feed Corn for Fattenning Hogs
This question has been asked and an
swered many times with varying results ac-
cording to the breed, the care and attention,
the shelter, the time of year, etc. Store
in healthy condition and of good breed
should lay ON pound of additional weight
for every five and sixteenth pound of mer-
camille corn fed to them, and will do it on
the average with reasonable care. When
they do not we think there is defect some
where.
If the above statement, which in our ex-
perience we have verified, be true, one BUSH
ell of corn-a part meal and fed as slop and
part, all the animal will eat, in the ear or
shelled, changing frequently-sh make
ten pound addition to the weight. Ten
pounds in pork. The following conclusion.
is then reached: 1t pays when corn is
worth 30 cents per bushel, to convert it into
pork when it sells for So per 100 pounds as
the manure will abundantly pay for the care
when properly saved, So when corn is 40
cents, pork should sell at 81 per 100 pounds;
corn at so cents, pork So; 80 cents, pork Sc;
corn rs cents, pork should sell at $3.50.
When corn is worth $1.50, pork must be SIS
than is thus represented by the correspond
ing price of corn it is fed at loss; if more,
the advance is profit-in each case regarding
the manure as pay for the trouble.
Fattening is accomplished most profita-
bly, as the cool weather of autumn advances,
the animals having plenty of water or mud
in which to roll when they choose, with
good shelter and warm quarters in which to
lie. The feeding place should be kept clean
and corn III the ear or shelled fed night and
morning, as much as they will eat up clean,
and slop of meal at noon with water night
and morning. The fatter they become the
closer their quarters may be. In the early
stages of fattening they need room for exer-
else, with wheat, bran, charcoal and sui
phur occasionally to keep them in condition
and increase the size of bone and muscle,
for when quite heavy they need only rest
Ohio Farmer.
Causes and Prevention Of Apple Rot.
Mr.. c. 81. Peck, the State Botanist, in his
recently issued annual report to the Regents
of the University of the State of New York
says:
While on the way from Summit to Jeffer-
son, in Schoharie county, an apple orchard
was observed on which much of the fruit
was discolored, and appeared as if beginn-
ing to decay. Some of the passengers re-
marked that they never knew before of ap-
pies rotting on the tree" Some of the fruit
was procured and found to be affected by a
fungus known to botanists by the name of
Sphgropsis mdIorum or apple sph9ropss.
1t has been described as attacking apples ly-
ing on the ground in Winter. Here was an
instance in which the apples were attacked
while yet on the tree, and that, too, as early
as September. The apples attacked by the
fungus are rendered worthless and expert
ments recently make indicate that the dis
ease is contagious, and may be commune
Gated from one apple to another. For eX-
ample, perfectly sound apple was placed
in drawer with one which was affected by
the fungus. In few days the sound apple
began to show signs of decay. Its whole
surface had assumed dull brown color, as
if beginning to rot. Two or three days later
small pale spots made their appearance, and
in the centre of each there was minute
rupture of the epidermis.
An examination of the substance of the
apple in these pale spots revealed fungus fill
aments that had permeated the cells of the
apple. In two or three days more numerous
minute black postules or papille had ap-
peared. They were thickly scattered over
nearly the whole surface of the fruit. These
constitute the sph@ropsis. When micro
scopcally examined each one of these black
papil9 is found to contain several oblong
pale fungus spores, supported on short
stem or foot stalk from which they soon sep
arate. 1t would be well, therefore, whenev-
er this fungus rot makes its appearance, to
remove the affected apples at once from the
presence of the others, whether they are on
the tree or not. 1t is NOT enough to throw
them on the ground by themselves, for this
would not prevent the fungus from ripening
and scattering its seeds.