Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — GO SLOW ON NEW CORN. [ARTICLE]

GO SLOW ON NEW CORN.

We have heretofore warned our readers of the danger of overfeeding their hogs with new corn, says Wallace’s Farmer. While we do not take much stock in the general opinion that cholera comes in about the time farmers begin to feed new corn, we are inclined to the opinion that something else which passes for cholera is apt to come in about this period. Hogs are fond of new corn. The farmer is busy and there is nothing so handy to feed with; hence, the hogs are apt to get all they want and a good deal more than they ought to eat, and, worse than all, get corn as an exclusive diet, with the reenlt that indigestion comes in, the system gets out of condition, and they are prepared to welcome any type of disease that may come along. Even where no disease occurs they do not maintain that thrifty, vigorous growth which can be attained by proper feeding. Where a farmer is compelled to feed new corn he had better bay some old corn at current prices and use it as means of getting his hogs gradually on to a full feed of new corn, and even then he should see that they have plenty of clover and other pasture, ana add some oats, wheat screenings or other cheap material, even if be had to bay more or leas of the by products of the factories and feed yards, such as gluten feed, gluten meal or digester tankage. These would help balance the corn ration and avoid what sometimes proves to be a serious mistake, that of getting on a full feed of new corn all at once.