Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-26
HOGS PERMITTED TO GATHER
CORN MORE GENERALLY THAN
IN FORMER DAYS.
FIND THE GRAIN EVEN
IF COMPELLED TO CLIMB
Stalks Not Of SUFFICIENT Value to Save
Thru Hiring Of High Priced Help
Rowan Farmer Feeding $40 Head Of
Hogs Of His Own Raisins-C. e.
Wilson's Obssrv atoms.
;pecial TO Times Republican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Rowan, Nov. 26.--Year by year the
system of feeling known as 'hogging
down" corn grows in favor on the farm
and as increasing thought and INTEL
ligence is applied result, obtained be-
come more and more apparent to the
stockman. Perhaps nobody knows
when or where the idea originated.
One Iowa farmer remembers that near
ly thirty years ago back in Illinois"
an old man used TO hitch his team to
a low wagon and drive across his
corn field a few times along towards
the last of September each year
knocking down several rows of the
corn. after which he would turn his
hogs into the field and suffer them to
help themselves. In these times the
low wagon preliminary is omitted.
Either the hogs of these days are sup
erior to those of three decades ago in
resourcefulnesS and cunning or else
the old Illinois farmer employed an
unnecessary incidental IN his plan, the
latter perhaps being the truth. Every
body in these times know that a hog
will help himself or herself II given
any kind Of chance at all and the
remark Of the colored man that The
good Lawd knew what he was doin'
when he called hogs hogs" is fam
iliar.
y. B. Olson on his farm near Row.
an has $40 hogs Of his own raising
that have just finished picking a total
of fifty one acres of corn with no
charge to the owner except the cost
Of the fences that held them in. Here
otter these animals will be permitted
the run of IarSr fields than earlier
in the season. The experienced farm
er begins the season with small fields;
because in warm weather a half eaten
ear OF immature corn soon molds and
is spoiled while later or when the
corn is ripe and the weather cold what
is left on the ground for a. time is
ready in good condition for later use.
With silo to furnish roughness for
cattle from shall areas of the corn
field it is figured that the farmer can
not afford to husk his corn or hire the
work done just to save the stalks for
the cattle and unless some new feat
ure appears in the farming scheme to
prevent it "hogging down" corn will
soon become a practice common to
every farmer.
j. G. F'reese.> . Dows farmer, went to
a public sale last winter and bought
the contents of silo. paying about 81
per ton for it. Then he bought UP a
bunch of young cattle and put them
on the. farm where he had shedding
privileges hiring a couple Of men to
care for them. The result of the OPP
Grafton was a good profit as the stuff
did well and Sold at a high figure on
the market. No feed of any consid-
cradle consequence except silage was
given the animals. Mr.. Freese has a
big fine barn on his farm but wishes
it could be transformed into cattle
sheds. He has big $50 ton silo with
a cutter permanently installed. He
fills the structure during the regular
silo filling season and when the first
filling has settled he fills it again and
repeatedly thru the winter from
shocked fodder. BY this method he
profits in several respects. First the
first filling or large part Of it is re-
served for the last of, winter and early
spring when cattle relish the greener
softer feed. The drier more mature
silage is fed in the colder part of the
season when a heavier ration is nee
essary and by following this method
only one silo is necessary where by
The usual method two would be re-
quired. That Mr. Freezes cattle are
finding silage entirely satisfactory to
themselves is evidenced from the fact
that couple Of good straw stacks to
which some of the animalsi have ac-