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that hogs were worth $16.00 per 100 pounds this is a very good 

 profit from feeding garbage. If the pigs had been fed on grains 

 during this time i.t would require fully 5 pounds of grain to produce 

 a pound of gain in live weight.. This grain costs locally 3 cents per 

 pound and, at this rate, it would have cost 15 cents to produce a 

 pound of gain or $69.60 for the 464.2 pounds gain. Thus garbage 

 effected a saving of $52.10 compared with a grain ration. This 

 saving amounted to $12.50 per hundred pounds of gain in live 

 weight. 



The feeding tests with garbage prove emphatically that it is 

 a splendid food for growing and fattening hogs. Thruout the feed- 

 ing period the animals were in slaughter condition. Garbage is a 

 cheaper source of food for hogs than grain, at present market prices, 

 and wherever it can be secured it should be used. Anyone situated 

 within a reasonable distance of a supply such as that secured from 

 hotels, restaurants, or mining camps would do well to use garbage 

 for the production of high-priced pork at low cost. Where reason- 

 able intelligence is used in keeping the garbage fresh and placing 

 nothing except clean, wholesome food in the garbage can, there is 

 no danger of disease or losses from feeding it. 



FEEDING WORK HORSES ON CORN SILAGE 



Silage is sometimes fed to work horses, but frequently with 

 injurious results. During the winter of 1918 a man at Tucson lost 

 five horses from feeding moldy silage. Other reports in the State 

 also indicate that silage may be highly toxic for horses, but no 

 instances have been found of it injuring cattle or sheep when 

 properly fed. 



On the Prescott Dry-Farm four horses have been fed a con- 

 siderable portion of silage the past three years. During this time 

 they were usually given all the alfalfa hay they would eat, but from 

 time to time silage constituted the only roughage. When worked 

 they were given an addition of about 8 pounds of rolled barley per 

 head daily. This amount of grain was greatly reduced when the 

 horses were idle and at times they received nothing but silage. 

 From April 1, 1918, until late in the summer, the horses were given 

 all the silage they would eat at all times. Daily feed records were 

 maintained from June 15 to August 12, and the amount of silage 

 consumed ranged from 130 to 490 pounds per day and averaged 

 during this period 299 pounds per day for four work horses. The 

 average amount per head was 74.75 pounds daily during the period, 

 and varied from 32.5 to 122.5 pounds per head daily. If the silage 



