DIVISIOX OF IXIMIL HUSBAyDRY 461 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 ^ 



EXPERIMENTAL FARM. BRANDON, MAN. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, W. C. McKILLICAN, B.S.A. 



SWINE. 



There are 37 swine on tlii.s Farm on March 31, 1914. They are divided as fol- 

 lows: Yorkshire, 1 boar, 5 brood sows and 4 young pigs; Berkshire, 1 boar, 2 brood 

 sows and 3 young pigs ; experimental feeders, 21. 



Four Yorkshire boars and four Yorksliire sows have been sold to farmers for 

 breeding purposes. As no stock boar of the Berkshire breed was on hand until late in 

 the season, the Berkshire sows were bred to the Yorkshire boar and the crossbred 

 offspring used for pork production. The surplus Yorkshire young pigs were used in 

 the same way. 



SWINE FEEDING EXPERIMENT. 



BARLEY VS. OATS VS. SHORTS. 



A feeding test was conducted in which oats, barley, and shorts were compared as 

 winter feeds for the production of pork. The pigs used averaged between 65 find 70 

 pounds at the start of the test. 



Lot 1 received ground oats as the main portion of their feed; lot 2 received ground 

 barley; and lot 3 received shorts. All three lots received one part of feed flour to 

 three parts of the principal meal fed. All received a small ration of mangels — from 

 2 to 3 pounds per pig per day. These feeds were charged against them at the follow- 

 ing rates: Oats, 30 cents per bushel; barley, 40 cents per bushel; feed flour, $2S per 

 ton; mangels, $3 per ton. 



The lot that were fed shorts became crippled and went very badly off feed early 

 in the test, consequently that part of the experiment had to be dropped. Some of the 

 pigs in the other lots showed a tendency in the same direction, but the majority did 

 well and even the poorer ones did not get seriously wrong. 



The individual and average gains per month and for the whole period are as 

 follows : — 



16— 29J 



