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EXTENSION DIVISION
Ovwa THOMAS P. COOPER, Dean and Director
w°di‘{‘ QIRCULAR N0. 213 SEPTEMBER, 1927
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coords of of hogs that can be properly fed and cared for on the farm and
um; mul retain that number year after year. Those who go in and out ,
ll 13,973 ofthe business in response to changing price. conditions usually
·u<~·l1tc1·s sell their breeding stock on a low market and buy it on a high
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iiat. The market.
nilk and When hogs are properly fed, especially when an intelligent
crease in use is made of forage crops, hog production can be made pr•t-
hc lcal- . able even when the ratio between hogs and corn would seem to
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and 44.1 indicate that hog production had reached the point where it
[]0dt]1cll’ 00uld no longer return a profit.

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Hogs are an important factor in any well diversified system  
of farming. In determining whether hogs are profitable, averages i
over a period of years should be taken, just as calculations are
made in other lines of business. Over a period of years corn i
will bring more money when marketed thru hogs than when sold A
on the grain market. T
In the feeding of hogs it should be rememlbered that ap.  
proximately four-fifths of the fertilizing constituents of a ¥
bushel of corn fed a hog is recovered in the manure. If hogs are  
fed on pasture, much of this fertility is conserved. I
Hogs are good scavengers. They are a valuable means of  
saving waste grain in fields where small grains have been har-  
vested. They are also valuable in consuming damaged corn,  
skimmilk and garbage and when following grain-fed cattle they  
usually return a good profit. ·
V Cattle feeders find the pork produced by hogs following  .
cattle an important source of profit in cattle feeding. Many  
cattle feeders consider themsselves successful if the pork pro-  
duced is their only profit in cattle feeding. Hpgs following  V
cattle will make from 1 to 2 pounds gain for each bushel of ear  
or shelled corn fed to cattle. l  1
Only first class grain will sell for top price on a grain  I
market, but most of the inferior grain can be made to sell for a  l
good price when fed to hogs.  »
Corn is considered the basic grain for hogs, but experiments A
have shown that ground barley and ground rye are effective sub-  
stitutes for corn in hog· feeding, and can be used successfully to  
supplement corn. These grains may be used more liberally when f 
the corn crop is short.  
Hogs can be self-fed more successfully than any other class  s
of livestock, thus reducing the labor required.
Hogs are "money miakers" if kept consistently, but are ¤
seldom profitable to those who habitually go in and out of the = 
business.  
Even a single brood sow, producing two litters of pigs, will _ 
furnish the average family with an adequate pork supply in j
addition to a few hogs for market. _