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Show WEANLING PIGS GROW FAST Greatest Gains for Feed Consumed Are Made In Early Life Lard Hogs Becoming Unpopular. Tho provnlent opinion scorns to bo that swlno wore doslgncd to eat up tho corn crop and grow Into 300-pound 300-pound porkers. Undor certain circumstances cir-cumstances thoro Is a bettor profit In selling Weanlings than In feeding thom up to tho usual market weights. Exact trials at many oxporlmont stations show that tho grcatoBt gains for feed consumed aro mado in early Hfo and thnt as tho animals grow older old-er it takos moro feed to produco a pound of pork. Tho Bucking pig grows vory fast and converts nearly all of Its rations Into meat. If tho bow Is fed liberally sho, too, will mako somo gains whilo supporting hor brood. Tho weanling weighing 25 to 40 pounds is almost clear gain and will often bring ten cents a pound at this ago. On tho Bamo prlnclplo tho 150-pound pig will mako moro profltablo returns re-turns on food consumod than if loft until it weighs 250 pounds. Thoro is an increasing number of farmers who prefer to sell light "bacon hogs" and fowor who contlnuo to feed "lard hogs" up to tho extra fat classes that wcro popular a score of years ago. |