Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-06
Remarkable Tests at
A7nes IN Pork Production

field, according to the number Of BUSH
els per acre produced. was that OF
hogging down corn. or this demon
stration Professor Pew said: TOO few
farmers employ the hogging down
method of marketing the corn crop.
At one time this was only employed
by shiftless renters. It Is today the
up-to-date method of marketing the
crop.
Experiments go to show that the
hog is the most economical corn har-
vester. He will husk the corn and
distribute the manure on the ground
and will return just as large, IL not
larger, yield of pork per bushel of corn
than where the corn has keen husked
and carried to him. The cost ot husk-
Ing has been saved, which usually
means an expenditure of to cents
per bushel.
1.-The condition Of the corn crop this
year in many sections Of the corn belt.
and particularly in this state, would
warrant the practice Of 'hogging down
more generally than has been the GUS
tom in previous years. 1t seems to be
the general opinion that where the
corn crop is not fit for cribbing that
it ought to be used as early as posi-
BILE. Some have advocated sorting the
corn at the time of picking. If the
pigs are turned into the corn they will
do their own sorting economically.
IF alfalfa or clover pasture is ac-
cessible, or If there is a stand of rape
in the corn, no supplement is needed:
however, with none Of the above avail
able, some supplement is needed for
best results. Tankage or meat meal in
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turns per acre Of corn.
Pigs weighing from 80 to ITS
pounds can be used successfully in this
operation. Gifts intended for breeding
purposes should not be used. Old sows
being fattened for market make econ
omical and rapid gains. No supple
ment is needed for them.
1T is necessary to supply fresh
ButtermiIk Feed Wins.
water"
buttermilk and corn feeding test, the
results of which greatly surprised the
farm paper editors. !: 1t demonstrated
that buttermilk fed to hogs is worth
45 cents a hundred pounds, and skim
milk is equally valuable, when fed in
limited quantities to young, growing,
weaned shoats directly after weaving
until they reach weight of 100
pounds. This buttermilk was fed in
addition to an apparently adequate
settled ration, there being allowed in
separate feeders these feeds: Seventy
cents a bushel shelled corn, $1.45
hundred wheat niddlings and $3.50 g
hundred 60 per cent protein tankage.
The "Free Choice" System.
tire free-choice' system Of swine
feeding to which Iowa station has
given a great amount Of study was de-
clared by Messrs. Evvard and Pew to
be the most practical method for the
farmer and their test has demonstrated
this.
Shall be self-feed our pigs when
feeding in dry lot. or shall we hand
feed two or three times daily. or how?"
This was q query put by Professor
Evvard to the visiting editors and then
answered by him.
Shall we allow the pigs to balance
their own rations or feed according to
the recognized feeding standards,
namely. the Wolff- Lehman Germany.
the KeIlner (recent Germany. and the
Dietrich (American, Illinois) :" Profess
sor Evvard asked.
Shall we weigh the water with the
expectation that We will be paid for
the trouble? These are very vital dry.
lot feeding neutrality-suspicious. that
the progressive swine men are forced
to face from late November to early
April usually, because In those months
the pastures are NIL, and the land is
generally bare of green vegetation Eek
cepting in the south Of course(.
THE fall pigs that are weaned in
November and marketed in April are
virtually a dry-lot feeding proposition.
ITO demonstrate the correct answer
to the questionary Of propositions sub.
mitted seven groups of 7S-day-old
forty two pound weanling pigs were
put on experiment by the animal hus-
bandry section Of the Iowa experiment
station. these being dry-lot fed on
shelled corn, wheat middlings. and 60
per cent protein tankage beginning
July 10, D. M, 1915. Results are now
(Nov A. 1870 available for the first
100 days, almost three and one-half
months, and the pigs are practically
about week less than six months Of
age Here are the specific methods OF
feeding for the seven groups:
Group 1.-The free choice" system
settled.
Group 2-The free choice system
| hand fed three times daily.
Group 3-The free choice" system
handled two times daily.
Group 4-The Dietrich standard. but
water allowed at e-will-hand-fed
two times daily, feeds mixed.
Group 5-The Dietrich standard, wa
| ter weighed-hand-fed two times daily,
feeds mixed.
Group 6-The Kellner standard
! handled two times daily, feed mixed.
Group Z The Wolff-Lehmann
standard-hand- fed two times daily,
feeds mixed. .e
Water allowed before all groups all
! times excepting group 5. above ex-
planned.
| What Happened?
Professor Evvard summarized the
| test as follows:
| 1. The free choice" system fed pigs
outgained all the other groups.
2. The seIf-fed and the three times
day fed groups clearly outgained the
twice-fed one; the thrice day fed
i group leading by scant margin.
g. After 100 days Of feeding the
free choice" fed pigs-all three
groups-out weigh all the others. In
dicating that the ration the pigs them
selves selected, regardless OF how they
were permitted to select the same, was
| superior when physiologically meas
ured by the growth made, than the man
selected and man standardized. stereo-
] typed and mixed rations
/ 4. The three and "self' times fed
a day pigs easily excel the twice
times fed day ones, weighing about
twenty pounds more-equivalent "a
about two weeks extra feeding to el-