Elements of farm practice, prepared Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture; elementsoffarmpr01wils Year: 1915 228 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE Not all the corn raised would be fed off, for it is not well to have the hogs in the field after snow and cold weather come. Six or eight pigs five to seven months old will ordi- narily clean up an acre of average corn during the fall. Waste by Hogging Crops.—Allowing hogs to help them- selves to a crop is called ''hogging off the crop.' This practice is generally regarded as very wasteful—that the hogs trample
Elements of farm practice, prepared Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture; elementsoffarmpr01wils Year: 1915 228 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE Not all the corn raised would be fed off, for it is not well to have the hogs in the field after snow and cold weather come. Six or eight pigs five to seven months old will ordi- narily clean up an acre of average corn during the fall. Waste by Hogging Crops.—Allowing hogs to help them- selves to a crop is called ''hogging off the crop.' This practice is generally regarded as very wasteful—that the hogs trample down and waste a great deal of the crop. Figure 106.—Hogs in rape, a good pasture crop. The seed is cheap and may be sown six to eight weeks before the pasture is needed. There is, however, very little of the crop wasted if the hogs are turned into a small patch (sufficient to last them two or three weeks) at a time. Results obtained by the Minnesota Experiment Station, and by many practical farmers, show that an acre of corn will make fully as much and often more pork, where hogs help themselves, than where the corn is husked and fed to the hogs in a yard. At the Minnesota Experiment Station one lot of hogs was turned into a field of corn, and another similar lot was shut in a yard and fed husked corn. It was found that the hogs in the field required lbs. of grain to make a pound of gain, while those in the yard required lbs. of grain to make a pound of gain. Questions: 1. In what ways may we reduce the amount of labor necessary in caring for fattening hogs? 2. Of what use are field peas as a feed for hogs? 3. What can you say regarding 'hogging off corn'?
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