Show LARGE PIG PROFITS MADE IN MINNESOTA letting animals gather their own feed found economical and satisfactory with the returns amounting to five cents a minute for the time spent A T J mcguire of the university of minnesota fill found that raising pigs every year was the most profitable work the men did on ills his farm last year the pigs were raised figures completed at the end of the year show with alth one hours time a day at the prices for pigs now the returns this year on this hours time was nearly 3 an hour the reduction of work to a minimum is the method that the mcguire farm uses to increase the return on the labor the pigs collect their own feed in the spring and summer from rape and alfalfa fields and in the tall fall they gather the feed to prepare them for market by hogging down a field of 15 acres of corn eight acres of rape and alfalfa keep the pigs and the brood sows bows in the summer furnishing in a fair season all the feed they will eat in september the pigs are turned into a lo 15 acre field of corn beside which la Is a fouracre four tour acre rape field the BOWS that are to be kept over during the winter minter are left to clean up aba th waste after the 11 pigs s are marketed I 1 mr air mcguire finds that letting the pigs do their own work Is just juht as sat Ir factory and economical and much more profitable lie ile even arranges the winter quarters so that as little attention as possible may be required by the sows bows straw sheds make good sL shelters elters tor for them and the corn cribs aud and feed boxes are placed as near the sheds as possible |