PART 111 

 VELVET BEAN PASTURE COMPARED 

 WITH CORN AND DRIED BLOOD; 

 VELVET BEAN MEAL COM- 

 PARED WITH CORN EOR 

 FATTENING HOGS 



By 



Geo. S. Templeton 



Introduction 



The farmers of Alabama are using the crop of vel- 

 vet beans in two ways to feed their hogs. The inost 

 common method of utilizing the crop is to allow the 

 hogs to "hog down" the bean crop after a heavy frost 

 has killed the vines, and the corn crop has been gath- 

 ered from the bean field. A number of farmers gath- 

 er the mature beans and feed them later in the winter 

 to the breeding herd of hogs or to tlie fattening hogs. 



As the prices on concentrated feeds have advanced 

 very rapidly in the past few years the following ex- 

 periments were planned with a view of comparing the 

 feeding value of the new crop with other concentrates 

 commonly used for fattening hogs. 



In the fall of 1914 arrangements were made with Dr. 

 J. F. Yarbrough, of Columbia, Alabama, to feed some 

 hogs on his farm. Dr. Yarbrough furnished the bean 

 pasture, the feeds, and the hogs for the experiment. 

 Mr. J. A. McLeod was stationed on the farm and had 

 personal supervision of the experiment. 



Object of Experiment A 



The object of this experiment was to compare vel- 

 vet bean ])asture with certain high priced concentrates 

 (corn and blood meal) for fattening hogs. 



Rations and the Velvet Bean Crop 



Fifteen pigs used in this experiment were divided 

 equally as to the breeding, (juality, and size, into three 

 lots of five each and fed as follows: 



LOT T: Corn. 10 parts, 



Drii'd blood, 1 part. 



Corn, 10 pai'ts, ) ono-half lalion (2 pounds to 



LOT II: Dried blood. 1 pari (each tOO lbs. live wt'iubl). 

 Vclvcl bean pasluii' 



