150 



With the information contained in the above table 

 it is possible for the farmer to determine what acre- 

 age of peanut pasture will be required to accommodate 

 a definite number of shoats of the above weights. 



Summary Statements. 



1. An acre of peanuts in the first test (1917), yielding 

 39.5 bushels, returned a net profit of $36.19 in favor of 

 grazing the area with hogs over selling the crop on 

 the market, when pork was 15 cents a pound, peanuts 

 6 cents a pound, and peanut hay $15.00 per ton. 



2. In the second test (1918) the hogs gathered an 

 acre of peanuts yielding 30.2 bushels and paid their 

 owner the market price for the nuts and hay, saved the 

 labor of harvesting, and returned him a net profit of 

 $13.62 above what the crop would have netted him if 

 it had been sold on the market. 



3. When the hogs grazed the entire crop of peanuts 

 yielding 39.5 bushels to the acre, the acre produced 

 668.2 pounds of pork. 



4. Acrop of 30.2 bushels of peanuts to the acre 

 produced 416 pounds of pork. 



5. In the two tests reported in this bulletin 1.65 

 pounds of peanuts in the first tests (1917, and 2.03 

 pounds of peanuts in the second test (1918) produced 

 one pound of pork: or, an average of 1.84 pounds of 

 peanuts, plus the forage furnished by the crop of pea- 

 nuts and other vegetation, produced one pound of pork. 



6. An acre of peanuts yielding 39.5 bushels furnish- 

 ed grazing for seven pigs weighing 63.5 pounds (average 

 weight at beginning of test) for 57 days. 



7. An acre of peanuts yielding 30.2 bushels fur- 

 nished grazing for seven pigs weighing 72 pounds (aver- 

 age initial weight) for 37 days. 



