Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-23
n Paid To Feed the Corn.

An Illinois farmer in a recent issue
of the Homestead presents some fgur-
es demonstrating that corn can be fed
to hogs with profit even when 1T has
a very good price on the market. He
says:
"On Nov. 20, 1902 made an estimate
of the corn which had on hand at that
time, which figured out 1850 bushels
also weighed my hogs and found that
I had 1886 pounds of swine, live
weight Figuring the price of corn an
hogs at the price which they would
have sold for at that time, the corn
would have brought at IS cents per bu-
shell $647.50, and the hogs at IS per
hundred-weight would have brought
$5O3.10. Total, $1,150.60. The hogs that
I sold up to Sept. Is. 1908, brought me
SLATE, and I had twenty head of nice
SOW shoats left, which saved to breed,
and after selling my hogs, sold IA
bushels and thirty pounds Of corn 1T
1914 cents per bushel.
II did not take any account of the
corn which fed out of that 1850 bush
els to eight head of horses, one COW
and calf, besides the chickens and
probably three or four tons of ground
corn which I sold for chicken feed.
Some one may ask, What did you feed
your hogs besides the corn?' Well,
fed some oats, perhaps fifty bushels,
and some potatoes, perhans twenty
five bushels. Besides, the nogs share
the pasture Of seventeen acres with til e
horses and COW and calves. I fed the
corn in most every way-some in the
ear, some shelled, some soaked after
Smelling, some soaked after it YVES
ground, and cooked some both shelle d
and ground. I found this made a va
iety which the hogs both relished ar d
thrived on, but the principal food was
corn in some shape"
In addition to the satisfactory imme-
diate results obtained in this case there
is the additional fact that such a praG-
tice tends to maintain the fertility Ut
the farm so that it may continue 20
produce paying crops. The ability %
produce good crops in the future is iu st
as important as is the advantageous
marketing of the present crop.
Notes.
When the clover hay becomes to-
dry, a great many of the leaves crun :
BILE and come off. 1t is very GOO
plan to save these and put them in the
swill for hogs. They need the roughas;e
and this will do them good. Save wit h
a basket. For mixing in the cows
mess nothing will be found much be-
ter that is in economical reach.
The farmers of the United States
and especially of the central agricul-
tural states, have come nearer to uni
versal pure swine breeding than ar
other farmers in the world. But n
cattle breeding perhaps as much call
not be said of them. 1t has been the
belief of many that the farmers IF
Great Britain come nearer to unive :
sal pure breeding than those of ally
other country, declares The Indiana
Farmer.
Just in proportion to the progre SIS
of agricultural education has been tle
decrease in the cityward movement Of
| vounp men reared on farms. Farmers
| who know how to treat their livesto X
and their land know how to treat the il
| sons saws the Breeders Gazette.
| Good stock is almost invariably found
| in the possession of good men and it is
| significant that on stock farms so Is
succeed fathers in cases, as histor y
tells us. to the fifth and sixth gener-
| 1t will be good time now to Gle n
lup the dead and dying timber IN tle