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Show uMrtiBU PUN GAIMFAVOR Plan for Feeding Stock Is Being Used on Many Farms in Corn Belt and Elsewhere. HOGGING DOWN' SAVES LABOR Keeps Hogs In Good Condition, DIs- tributes Manure Uniformly and Provides for a 8lmple Rota- tlon of Crops. Prepared by the United Btatee Department Depart-ment of Asrlcultura. Thirty or forty years ago aome shrewd farmers fell Into the habit or letting their hogs run In the cornfield In September and October and allowing allow-ing thera to cat cars and stalks until all that remained could be plowed under. un-der. Some also turned hogs Into the rye In the spring and let them range on tho tender and succulent stalks antll they became too woody to be palatable. palat-able. This process was termed "bog-glng "bog-glng down." Labor Shortage Changes Methods. Then came a cruaade for "clean farming'' typified by harvesting and shocking the corn etdlka, busking the yellow ears and piling them Into the cribs, later to bo fed to the same, hogs. "Hogging down" was decreed to be shiftless evasion of honest toll. Tho "hogging down" farmers fell Into disfavor dis-favor and dropped tho practice to a large extent. Meantime, the labor market was tightening, nnd a day'a work came to be regarded not so much ns something to be gotten out of the fanner or his soiw or a hired man, but ns a period tc le paid for In money that could he uncd for other purposes. Tho United States Department of Agrlcultuie and some of the experiment experi-ment ttntlons In corn states hove of late years given careful attention to the possibilities of reeding stock on the cafeteria plan. Today It Is In use nn hundreds of corn-belt farms and In many other localities In nil parts or the country where corn Is grown. Hogging down corn saves Inbor, whllo causing no more waste than when the corn Is harvested and hnnd red. Properly mannged. It keeps the hogs In hotter condition and odds 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 sys-tem admirably adapted to build up a run-down farm. A Good Five-Year Rotation. A system tbat Is widely used calls for fencing the farm Into five parts six If you wish to retain a permanent pasture. Corn Is planted In the flrst Hogging down Corn Saves Labor Without U.Klue Wate. section nnd as soon us the kernels havo become hurd the hogs are turned 'n. As they have been on other feed, 't will take a week or ten days' reeding reed-ing to get them entirely on o corn diet. In the corn-bclt latitude they mny be expected to live entirely In the cornfield rrom about September 10 until tho crop Is consumed. It Is generally found best not to permit the hogs range of tho entire Held, but to erect temporary fences. These ran easily be built of 25-Inch wide wire mesh, fastened to anchor posts at the I ends and tied to cornstalks Instend of-llne of-llne posts. Tf a supplemental crop such as rape, cowpeaa, soy beans, or even pumpkins, has been sowed among the corn. It will provide protein ' feed which the corn lacks. The following spring the stalks and trash thut remain on tho surface of the field are cut over with n sharp disk and tho ground prepured for a second crop of corn, which Is harvested hv hand, while the corn for "hogging down" Ih planted In the second tract. Thp rye Is used for hog pasture from early spring until the stalks become ton hard, It will he found vnlnnble pasture for brood sows with young pigs. Aflei the pigs cense to consume the rye they ore taken out nnd not returned until nfter the grain Incomes ripe, when they nre nllowed to 'con-mine 'con-mine the entire crop and srnr nn the young clover nntll time to turn them Into the corn In September. The clovfr and timothy come on the jext year and are nsed for hog pns-mre pns-mre and the best parts kept for hay 'or other stock. The fifth year the Imothy nnd clover crop Is cut for hn md the sod turned under Iste In the all to prepare the ground for the . ext yeor'a "hogging down" crop o' am |