Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1917 — Still Another Hog Story. [ARTICLE]

Still Another Hog Story.

Attica Ledger. Will Hushaw has just finished a hog feeding test at his place in Shawnee township under the direction of County Agent Rosecrans. Fifteen hogs were fed from February 26 to March 26, being fed corn and tankage by means of a self-feeder. The first two weeks Mr. Hushaw bought corn at $1 a bushel to feed, yet the 'hogs put on flesh so rapidly that at the end of that time after deducting the cost of the tankage and allowing a shrinkage margin of 50c a cwt., figured on the Indianapolis market for that time, the hogs paid $2.39 a bushel for every bushel of com they ate during that period. During the second two weeks the com cost SI.OB and after allowing for the cost of the tankage as before, the gain showed a return of $2.12 a bushel for the com used.