Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-16
4 Ivew sweet Con.

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South Dakota, is reaping the benefit OF
an experiment to grow sweet corn
early, that he initiated some eight
wears ago. He began by saving each
year the seed from the smallest stalk
first to ripen. BY following this up
he has produced series of corn about
a foot tall, with good sized ears, that
is ready for use early in the season.
BY following the experiment longer he
expects to produce a variety of corn
with little or no stalk or foliage,
Piae Save Waste.
"a farm without pigs writes Mr.
W. J. Maiden, in the Farmers Gazette
Ireland, is almost certainly farm
with waste: there is food which can
be best utilized as pig food, tho the
pig is not regarded so universally as
scavenger as it was a comparatively
few years ago. This is because i'm
provement in breeding has made it
possible to produce large weight OF
good quality pork from a small
amount of food in short time; also
because big, old pigs sell badly, the
public taste running on small, delicat-
fat meat of fifty years ago. The thresh-
ing machine and grain binder have, by
the cleanness of their work, lessened
the offal grain. Pigs which had the
run of the yard in the days of the fall
picked up quite d considerable amount
of grain when nuzzling in the straw.
Nowadays, good machines leave less
grain than will keep the sparrows, and
the binder has almost rendered unnec-
essary the horserake; consequently
there is less strained grain, which used
to be the pigs particular provender
and the stubbles are but little used. In
spite of the change which has come
about, there is much of an offal nature
that pigs will consume profitably, and
which If they do not eat is wasted. We
like to- see number of breeding sows
and a requisite number Of young stores
turning to profitable account the waste
of the farm.
The Improvement in the breeding
of pigs renders them all the more
suitable running as stores, because
whenever it is desired to fatten them
food, and are rapidly made ready for
poTh L he ordinary pig OIL lOIly year
ago took a long time to fatten, and did
not fatten profitably until was of
not fatten profitably until it was of
good age. We think that good many
who advocate fast feeding from birth
often overlook the difference between
the pigs of their youth and those OF
modern production. Both rapid feed
ing and store running before fattening
are profitable according to circum-
stances-just as profit may be got out
of baby beef, where the animal has
been fatten from birth, and also
from those which have been kept as
stores for a couple of years and then
fattened. The fact is, the nature OF
the food available is the main consid-
Grafton. "A farmer with roots, rough
grain, dairy waste, and other bulky
food generally finds it profitable to al
low his pigs to attain a fair size be-
fore being put up to fatten; while the
man who has less bulky food may find
it more desirable to fatten from birth.
"In any case, breeding sows require
food which they can get by scavenging,
apart from that which is more expen-
sive. Overwhelmed sows do not make
the most prolific mothers, nor are
their young as strong as are those
which are the offspring of mothers
which have obtained a mixed diet in
scavenging, and have attained vigor
from exercise"