WHEN TO FEED CORN FOR FATTENING HOGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1486, 12 January 1882, Page 4

WHEN TO FEED CORN FOR FATTENING HOGS.

The Prairie Farmer has often answered the above question, but it recurs more or less frequently every season. The results vary, according to breed, care, shelter, &c. Store ho«s that arc of a good breed and healthy, should, according to experiments repeatedly tried, lay on a pound of additional weight for every five pounds and six-tenths of a pound of sound corn they eat. A contemporaiy has verified this estimate to be true. Thus one bushel of corn — a part meal and fed as slop, and a part in the ear or shelled— all thu animal will eat, should make ten pounds additional weight, and ten bushels of corn will represent 100 pounds of pork. Upon this basis the following conclusion is reached : It pays when corn is worth 30 cents per bushel to convert it into pork vhen it soils for 3dols per 100 pounds, as the manure will abundantly pay for the care, when propeily saved. When corn is 40 cents, pork should sell at 4dols per 100 pounds ; corn at 50 cents, pork sdols ; GO cents, pork Gdols ; corn 75 cents, pork should sell at 7dols 00 cents. When corn is worth Idol 50 cents, pork must sell at 15dols per 100 pounds. If the pork sells for less than is represented by the corresponding price of corn it is fed at a loss ; if more, the advance is profit— in each case regarding the manure as pay for the trouble. Fattening is .accomplished most profitably as the cool weather of autumn advances, with good shelter and warm quarters in which to lie. The feeding place should ba kept clean, and corn in the ear or shelled fed night and morning, as much as they will cat up clean, and slop of meal at noon with pure, clean water night niul morning. The fatter they become, the closer their quarters may bo. In the e«irly st-igi'S of Litton ing they need loo'ii for exenise, with whe.it In an, charcoal and sulphur occasionally to keep t'fem in condition and inorciso the .si/c of bom- «uul muscle, for when quite heavy they need only rest.