Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-27
GENEVA FARMER
AccoMPLlsHEs NOVEL
HOG FEEDING STUNT
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Geneva, March 27.-One of the mos
unique n entirely successful hos
feeding stunts ever put in practice II
northern Iowa has been pulled on tn
past winter by William Laipple on nj:
farm adjacent to this town. Scientih'
men have figured it out that witt
grain and other feeds commanding thu
prices that they do, the cost of pro.
ducing q pound Of pork Is about !:
cents, but Laipple has succeeded IN
cutting down this expense almost one
half; to be approximately exac to
cents, and when a accent pound OF
live weight hog can be produced FOL
half that amount Of money there Is
profit Is feeding hogs for the market
be the price of feed what 1t may.
Every little while some dairy farmer
testing his COWS by scientific methods
discovers to sis amazement that some
of his COWS which he had thought to
be more profitable, wer really not pay
ing for the feed and labor bestowed
upon them and hat other members OF
his herd, up to that time regarded as
inferior animals were In reality the
best Of the lot. Thereupon he decides
that in the future there shall be nc
more guesswork dairying for him and
he continues his system OF tests and
records. Sometimes. too, q stock feed
er proceeds to investigate the results
of his labors thru the medium Of farm
scales and farm bookkeeping and
startling Developments follow as in the
case of the enterprising dairyman who
seeks TO know exactly what financial
return he Is securing for his labor and
expense.
Two years ago Mr.. Iaipple bought Il
bunch Of sixty 140-pound shoats
and started to feed them out on a corn
and water ration. AT the end OF
eighteen days they had gained LOO
one Of the animals had died in the
meantime. The corn fed to them was
worth 72 cents per bushel and the
owner might have closed out his hold
ings at this juncture at a net profit or
$50 on the lot, but he continued feed
ing another twelve days, weighed his
hogs again and found that the lot had
gained only $50 pounds In hat period.
Then he sold and am GU just about
even. the actual loss sustained in the
period practically balancing the
gain of the first. This really is an II
perhaps of a lot OF the de
stock feeding that takes places
all over the country; sometimes the
comes thru with a profit and
he does not.
.
Dissatisfied with this kind Of stock
MIR. Laipple decided on q plan
Of campaign all his own. In a distant
city he arranged for the shipment to
OF two barrels OF buttermilk
for which he paid 81 per bar
rel. A relative had discarded a feed
and this was hauled home and
set up. The local butcher was ap-
preached In regard to furnishing so
many beef heads and certain amounts
OF fresh bones, etc. per week and a
mutually satisfactory contract was
speedily concluded. There were plen-
Of cobs in the feeding pens for
fuel and this and other animal refuse
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soft that It could be consumed en-
tirely by the creatures for which it
was prepared. The fire hardly went
under that old cooke all winter
long. Barrels and barrels of soup"
was cooked up, mixed with the butter
milk and poured into the feeding
where the greedy animals de-
voured 1t and converted it again into
flesh. al this time a corn ration
was dealt out but only about one-third
the amount fed under ordinary cir
cumstances. There Is a limit to the
eating capacity OF a hog dosed
on "buttermilk soup and In this case
It. was reached with the administration
o. the fraction noted. There's where
one of the economical elements fig
The other will appear in the
para graph Of statistics following.
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There was an average Of nearly 200
hogs on the farm all thru the winter.
They were picked up over the country
IL small lots, brought home and fed
for a time and sold as they attained
condition. They were
thrown all together and had access to
four sleeping places. One lot OF five
averaging 120 pounds were
bought Oct. II. fed 100 days and when
weighed were found to have made an
gain OF n and one-half
each per day. Another lot OF
four were brought in Dec. 12, fed thir-
days when II was found they had
gained sixty-one pounds each during
the time or a little more than two
daily. The entire number
has made a gain Of M
and a half pounds daily despite the
abnormally cold seasom and the only
lost of the entire number vas
a little starved rupt that died while IN
to the place which, could 1t
lived to get there, would doubt
less have made a hog Of It." One
who furnished a contribution
back to the farm two weeks later
to see how his former possessions were
along and going out into the
yards was unable to identify a single
one OF the animals so quickly had they
up"
Men keep asking over and over
again, How can farming be made
profitable II land goes much higher
than 1t is at present." An indirect an
swer might be made by the answer.
Not by the corn and water method OF
feeding stock" c. e. Wilson.
DAIRY BUSINESS BOOSTED.
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