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During- a small portion of the time covered bj this 

 experiment sorghum was cut and carried to the pigs 

 and when this was done a given area lasted much longer 

 than Avhen hogs were turned in to graze, in which case 

 the waste of green food, bitten down amd not consumed, 

 was excessive. 



Where labor is abundant and cheaip or where the use 

 of a com harvester is possible it is believed that it will 

 pay to cut and carry the sorghum to the pigs rather than 

 to graze it. 



When shoats averaging about 80 pounds received only 

 one and one-half pounds of grain a day per head and 

 were required to make growth chiefly on sorghum, the 

 rate of gain was slow, being a little more than half a 

 pound per day. 



The sorghum when grazed was at the stages of growth 

 between early bloom and complete maturity and most 

 of it was about five feet high. The yield was rather 

 light, the land being poor, sandy upland, moderately fer- 

 tilized. The sorghum used in all our grazing experi- 

 ments has been drilled and cultivated. 



The value of* Spanish peanuts as pasturage for pigs. 



In Bulletin No. 93 of this Station the writer has re- 

 corded the Yevj satisfactory results of several experi- 

 ments in grazing pigs on peanuts in 1897. The results 

 below confiiTu the conclusions which we have heretofore 

 expressed as to the great value of peanuts as food for 

 hogs. 



Peanuts and corn meal. — A litter of pigs farrowed 

 September 1, 1899, was penned on Spanish peanuts 

 November 4, after weaning. There was only about two- 

 thirds of a stand of peanuts. 



