Show IVE STOCK NEWS NEVIS FEEDING SURPLUS CORN TO SWINE VINE Plan to Increase Average Weight of Hogs Prepared by tho Iho UnIted States Department of o 0 Agriculture Agriculture would benefit nod a n min minimum disturbance of prices for all the commodities Involved would follow v In inthe the pinion opinion of or Secretary ry of ot Agri Agriculture culture 11 W 1 M lI Jardine If bushels of ot corn com were devoted to the additional feeding of ot cattle and hogs hos year However he warns against the production of ot hogs heavier than the desirable market markel weight because price discriminations too too- too heavy heavy lao hogs s would serve Ier to offset the value of ot time the extra weight An n Increase of ot five the pounds In the weight of ot the average ho hog says Secretary Jardine Is about as far fir as ho hog feeders sh should ul plan to go this year An average n increase of ot the fete fi in III the weight of ot the hogs fed on the 1923 1023 corn crop would mean the consumption of oC about 20 20 Or additional bushels Secretary Jardine believes belle cattle feeding Is preferable Jle to hog feeding In many respects as a 0 method of ot util util- utilIzing utilizing izing more corn com and says sars ties for tor feeding about bushels bush bush- bushels bushels els of ot corn desen deserve e the consideration of cattlemen It takes about OO pounds of ot shelled corn to put pounds of gain on a year two-year-old steer steert t At this rate steers fed to be pounds heavier by corn feeding would consume approximately bushels of the crop This Is la probably ably a n very ery conservative e number be- be being be being ing only half of the steers slaughtered annually under federal Inspection The nd advisability of feeding surplus corn to cattle rather than to hog hogs he continues Is plainly evident Two anti a n quarter million steers each ted fed to weigh pounds more are equiv equIv- equIvalent equivalent equivalent alent to about pounds of dressed beef or one pound per person This Is not a increase to at- at affect af affect prices seriously or to offset the 10 per cent decrease In the number ot of cattle killed withIn the last year Time The heavier feeding of corn should be on the lighter cattle since there are arC signs of ot n a plentiful supply of ot heavy cattle caUle in the summer of 1 10 1029 J 0 |