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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



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From the standpoint of a safe profit, one ration is best of all 

 for the market hog raiser, and that one is corn and clover from the 

 time the pigs are up to 60 pounds weight. At the same time it 

 must be noticed that the supplemental feeds fed with corn on pas- 

 ture gave greater gains than corn alone on pasture. Where hogs 

 are high priced, therefore, swine raisers can afford to use these 

 supplemental feeds, even on good pasture, for the sake of the extra 

 growth secured ; and this will apply with special force to the breed- 

 er of pure bred swine, who must have the maximum development 

 which his animals are possible of, if he is to successfully compete 

 in show rings and sales with his fellow breeders. 



In every test in dry lot feeding the use of barley and shorts, 

 meat meal, or tankage with corn, has increased the rate of gain, 

 decreased the cost per 100 pounds gain, and increased the total 

 profits when compared with a ration of corn alone. There can be 

 no question, therefore, of the advisability of using some of these 

 supplements with corn, in feeding hogs in the dry lot, when prices 

 for feeds are approximately the same as these tests. 



The minimum prices were: For corn meal, 40 cents per 56 

 pounds; for tankage, $33.00 per ton; for ground barley, 35 cents 

 per 48 pounds; for shorts, $18.00 per ton. The maximum prices 



