Show CAFETERIA PLAN GAINS IN FAVOR plait for feeding feeding stock Is being used on many farms in corn belt and elsewhere HOGGING DOWN SAVES LABOR keeps hogs hoes in good condition dis di tributes mani manure manire re uniformly and provides for a simple rota tion of crops prepared by the united states department of 0 Acri agriculture culture thirty ali arty or 01 forty years ago some shrewd farmers fell into the habit he bit of letting their hogs run in the cornfield corno id in fit september and october and allowing them to eat ears and stalks until nil fill that remained could be plowed under some also turned hogs hoes into the rye in the spring and let them range on the tender and succulent stalks until they became too woody goody to he be palatable this process was termed ho king ging down labor shortage changes methods then came a crusade for clean farming fanning ty t pined pilled by harvesting and shocking the corn stalks husking the yellow pars ears and piling them into the cribs later inter to be fed to the same hogs Il hogging logging down was decreed to be shiftless of honest toll the hogging down farmers fell into disfavor and dropped the practice to a large extent meantime Alenri time the labor was tightening and a days work came to be regarded not so much us as a something one ething M to be kolten gotten out ont of the farmer or if his sons or a hired man but as a perlo period to be paid tor for in money that could be for other pur purposes P the united states D department of agriculture e rind some of the experiment stations in corn states have of late into years given careful attention to the possibilities of feeding stock on the cafeteria plan today it Is in use on nn hundreds of corn belt farms end and in many other localities in all parts of the country where corn Is grown hogging down corn saves labor while causing no more waste than when the corn Is harvested and hand fed property properly managed it keeps the hogs bogs in better condition and adds weight more rapidly it distributes manure uniformly it leaves the ground in fair condition for the next crop and it fits in with a rotation system admirably adapted to build up a rundown run down farm A good five year rotation A system that Is widely used ined calls for f fencing the farm into five parts six if you wish to retain a permanent pasture corn Is planted in the first fir h 1 01 t 1 I 1 6 ki f C q 01 7 A IF hogging irown corn saves labor without U etue wate waste section rind as soon as an the kernels kernel 3 have become hard bard the hogs tire 0 turned tn As they have been on other feed it t will take a week or ten days feeding to get them entirely on a corn diet in the corn belt lat latitude itu d e they may be expected to live alv entirely in the cornfield from about september 10 until tho the crop Is consumed it la Is generally fount found best not to permit the th hogs bogs range of the entire but to erett erect temporary fences these ran can easily be built of 25 inch wide wire mesh me gh fastened to anchor posts at the ends and tied to cornstalks corn stalks instead of fine posts it if a supplemental supplement mental hl crop SUC it as rape cow cowpe ua soy henna beans or even pumpkins has been sowed bowed among the vorn it will provide protein feed which the corn lacks the following spring tait the stalks end and trash that remain on the surface of the field tire exit cut over with n sharp III dish 1 and the ground prepared for a second crop of corn which Is ha nested by band while the corn for hoggins bogging down Is planted in hi the second tract the rye Is used awl for hog pasture from ly spring until t lie stalks become too hard it will he be found valuable linture rin ture for brood lowr sows with young after the lie pigs censa cense to consume the jye rye they are token out rind not returned until after the grain becomes ripe when they are allowed to consume the entire crop and graze croze on the young clover until time to turn them thein into the corn in september the cloctt and timothy come on the next year and tire are used for ling pris ture fure and the lie best parts kept for tiny liny for other fetock the fifth year tho th timothy rind clover crop la Is cut for bay ind n cl t the he sod oil turned under late in th the nil t to 0 prepare the for tho lext years hosting hogging down mop or orn lorn |