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Peanuts and chufas as pasturage. 



The rate of gain, nearly one and one-half pounds per 

 day per head, was satisfactory except for the lot receiv- 

 ing mo grain, with which the diaily growth was only .41 

 of a pound per head. 



The second column shows that when shoats were 

 "hogging off" peanuts or chufas they made good use of 

 2.58 pounds and 2.99 pounds respectively of grain daily 

 for every hundred pounds of live weight. 



The third column shows that ami acre of peanuts, 

 without grain, afforded pastiurage at the rate of 463 

 days for a hundred pound shoat, which is equal to 15 

 such shoats for one month. In 1899 when receiving 

 about one-foui'th of a normal grain ration pigs grazing 

 on inferior peanuts madfe moderate gains when the 

 field was stocked at the rate of 13 lOO-poumd shoats for 

 one month. When a half ration of grain was fed r^he 

 peanuts or chufas lasted nearly twice as long, the rate 

 of pasturing per acre for' every 100 pounds of live 

 weight being 850 days for peanuts and 827 days for 

 chufas, equal to the support for one month of 28 100- 

 pound shoats on an acre of peanuts and of 27 on an 

 acre of chufas. 



