Peanuts, Cowpeas and Sweet Potatoes 

 as Food for Pigs. 



BY J. F. DUGGAR. 



SUMMARY. 



Spanish peanuts, when harvested by young pigs, were 

 converted into pork, worth, at 3 cents per pound, SI 8.34 per 

 acre of peanuts, when all conditions were favorable. 



In another field, with only half a stand of plants, the 

 value of the pork from an acre of Spanish peanuts was $10.94 

 and 17.83 in two experiments. 



Under favorable conditions pork (live weight) was pro- 

 duced at the rate of 1,426 pounds per acre of peanuts, sup- 

 plemeted by 37.8 bushels of corn. 



With half a stand of plants an acre of Spanish peanuts 

 produced, unaided, pork at the rate of 261 pounds per acre, 

 and at the rate of 840 pounds per acre when the acre of pea- 

 nuts was supplemented with 35.6 bushels of corn. 



When fed to pigs in pens only 2.8 pounds of unhulled 

 Spanish peanuts were required to produce each pound of in- 

 crease in live weight. This is equal to 9 pounds of increase, 

 worth 27 cents, as a return for each bushel of peanuts eaten. 



Shoats pastured on nearly mature cowpeas and supplied 

 with corn made almost three times the gain m live weight 

 made by similar shoats fed exclusively on corn. 



The cowpea crop was above the average, and its value in 

 3-cent pork, after subtracting the cost of the corn fed, was 

 $10.65 per acre. 



Shoats fed in pens gained more rapidly in weight on a 



