Show N C FE FEEDING EDING CORN TO HOGS profitable safest investment and one way of making money the most profitable method of marketing corn for the next two years la Is by y feeding it to hogs and then marketing the hoys hogs IV W shay swine extension specialist of tile the north carolina 0 strife state college says in speaking of the low lov price of corn and niad the profit to be didde in hogs at the present time lime feeding corn to hogs Is the safest farm investment and the surest way to a profit in farming this yen year r it if tilt corn Is produced at a low cost per pec bushel mr shay says sas that it Is always prof profitable flable to feed corn to hogs even een if the corn ts Is high in per bushel or the yield per acre Is 14 low the feeding of corn to hogs will increase its bushel bushe value alue when the farmer has a big loss in t the be cost af f corn due to low production per acre tills this can he cut down by feeding to hogs but not always eliminated the person who cannot produce at least SO bushels of corn or more to the acre had best stay out of oc the hog raising business self feeder demonstrations in the eastern part of the strife state this past year showed that corn coin will increase enormously in value if fed to hogs one demonstration showed a profit of per cent on corn by such feeding despite the death of one hog during the demonstration the hogs in this thin case ate bushels of corn which would have brought tf if sold ns corn after paying all other charges a and nd deducting the value of the hog which died 1975 the hogs still paid a of for the corn and left plant food worth 49 55 on the farm whereas worth of plant food would have hae gone out ont with the corn had it been sold the other two demonstrations proved the same thing in tile the demonstrations the hogs were put on self fedders half the time and then turned in on standing corn supplemented ted with fish meal the raising of plenty of corn and hogs ahng will he a great boost for the alve rit liomel movement mr shay believes re wants many hog feeding demonstrations this year with accurate records kept suggested ration for fattening lamb crop lambs being fattened on a sul suitable table grain mixture rind and good hay will riot not he expected to pat ns as much silage as breeding ewes As the lambs get on full feed of grain the rough roughage Is naturally reduced reduce about two pounds of grain dally daily Is a full feed for lambs being fatten fattened corn Is of course the universal among the grains barley Is used a lot in new york A suggested ration to start with won would ile he a half pound of grain two pounds of clover hay find and one pound of wage silage dally T lambs when on full feed should clean up tip their grain and eat the good or edible part of their hay bay some feeders feed a little littie wheat hran with the fattening concentrate wb which ich Is a good practice as wheat bran has a beneficial effect on the system of the lamb proper attention will prevent much pig loss there Is a consider considerable ahle loss of 0 f pigs tit lit the tinie time of birth and within a very short time afterwards many pigs are born dead and many more are so weak that they live only a short time much of this loss can he be avoided by proper feeding of brood sows bows and hy by providing stil suitable table quarters for far rowing of course attention at far rowing time will save anny pigs but unless sows bows have heen been fed a ration that contains sufficient protein and mineral matter it Is IR a foregone conclusion that there will be some dead pigs at birth and many of those that anre born alive will be too weak to live long supplementing corn com for supple enting corn on alfalfa pasture one pound of has proved to he be as efficient tor for pigs as two pounds if f linseed meal soy beans or soy bean meal A mineral mixture comprised composed of equal parts of ground limestone super and snit salt did not improve a ration of corn and soy beans on alfalfa pasture in fact the feed required per pounds of grain was higher when minerals were fed than without them these ave aie ai e some of at the results of last years hog feeding tests oats for pigs in ohio tests with hogs whole oats ledwith led with ground corn produced more rapid anti and economical enins than ground orts with corn when oats constituted the entire grain ration tile he ground oats produced the greater gains but not to lo any for the cost coat of if grinding oats did not prove nn an economical substitute for corn hut but a limited n mount amount of whole oats iri in a ration of corn tn a go |