Posted by DR. EVIL on February 09, 2023 at 12:44:37 from (174.192.73.39):
In Reply to: Ground feed today posted by tomstractorsandtoys on February 08, 2023 at 15:55:41:
Around home, Henry County, Ill, 15 miles east and a little south of Moline, Ill, most hog farmers used mix/mills to grind shell corn for hog feed. We had a Kneodler burr mill we ground a BIG pile of ground ear corn every weekend all winter for our feeder cattle. Once the corn was low enough to stop running out of the sides of the crib, scooping corn became a one man, or in my case, one small-ish boy type job, Dad would take a leisurely walk back to the barn and toss a couple bales of hay out for the cattle. I'd grind 40-50 bushel of corn, enough to feed them for a week and it was angered out into a fairly large walk-in feeder in the feed lot. The hogs were on the Other side of the crib, typically two 40 bushel hog feeders in that lot, once I got about 10-12 years old Dad would send me to town for 5500# of ground feed for the hogs. In summer I'd make two trips to town for hog feed a week, only 5 miles away. We had the option of having the hog feed being ground and delivered about 10,000-12,000# at a time, think delivery was $1/1000#, my delivery cost was considerably less, 5 miles each way, 2 gallons of gas for the round trip so 50-60 cents. Combine my free labor with the cheap 1960's gas prices and I'd put a lot of miles on that old '39 H or '54 Super H delivering hay or straw and picking up feed. The feed mill goofed up one summer, forgot to charge for the 5500# of shell corn for several loads of hog feed. Dad bought a 1000 bushel of shell corn and I hauled it about 5-6 miles to the elevator 10,000# per load. Our BIG Electric Wheel flare box wagon held exactly 10,000# filled level full with no side boards, EWC said the box was 150 bushel but that comes out to 178-1/2 bushel per load on my calculator. The bin we loaded out of only had a 4 inch auger, took most of a morning to get a load in the wagon and 10-15 minutes to get to town. And in my free time I kept the corn cultivated, 180 acres three times, mowed, raked, and baled 20 acres of hay three times during the summer. And Dad and I traded help with a couple neighbors casterating & vaccinating couple hundred head of hogs.
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