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gains in six weeks aggregated 156.5 pounds, which is 

 at the rate of a little more than half a pound per day 

 per pig. The area grazed was 13, 887 square feet. This 

 is equivalent to a gain of 503 pounds of live pork per 

 acre of peanuts, worth, with pork at 4 cents, |20.12. 



TN^hen taken: from peanuts October 31, 1901, one of 

 these pigs, No. 12, was butchered and the melting point 

 of the lard determined. 



Peanuts and corn meal in 1899. — On September 2, 

 1899, a lot of seven shoats previously supported on 

 sorghum and on' a diet of corn and cowpeas (see p. 14) 

 was transferred from sorghum to Spanish peanuts, and 

 to make a properly balanced ration the grain A^'as 

 changed to com meal. 



During the next four weeks the lot of seven pigs 

 made gains of 120.7 pounds while consuming 333 pounds 

 of corn meal and the peainluts on 10,593 square feet. 

 This is at the rate of 496 pounds of growth produced 

 by an acre of peanuts assisted by 1356 pounds of corn 

 meal. If 5 pounds of grain alone would have produced 

 one pounfd of growth there remains 225 pounds of 

 pork, worth |9.00, as the value of an acre of peanuts 

 converted into pork. Besides the peanuts there was 

 required 2.73 pounds of corn meal to produce a pound 

 of growth. 



A week after the close of this period these seven pigs, 

 all of one litter, were divided into several lots, one lot 

 continuing to graze on peanuts, a second lot grazing on 

 chufas with grain as stated further on, a third lot being 

 penned and fed on a mixture of cotton seed meal and 

 corn meal, and the remaining pig together with one of 

 a different litter being fed in a pen on corn meal alone. 



