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It cost $2.54 per hundred pounds to make the pork. At the same time 

 they fed corn meal with alfalfa chaff, that is, the leaves broken off from 

 the hay as it was thrown from the mow. These leaves are just about 

 as rich as wheat bran. They fed corn meal and alfalfa in the propor- 

 tion of four parts meal to one of alfalfa leaves. Figuring alfalfa at 

 $8 a ton, it cost them $3.44 a hundred weight to make the pork. I have 

 assessed a valuation to the hay, because hay has a definite cash value, but 

 it is arbitrary iv assess any cash valuation to the green feeds in table II, 

 because it is impossible to do this in a way that fits all conditions. At 

 the same time another lot fed on corn meal alone made a gain of .93 

 pounds a day. It took 847 pounds of corn ineal to make a hundred 

 weight of pork and it cost $4.75 a hundred pounds to do it. These re- 

 sults would make it seem profitable to feed alfalfa hay with corn. The 

 pigs so fed certainly did better than those fed on corn alone, but we can 

 do so much better that I would not stop there. I would not feed alfalfa 

 leaves to anything except brood sows. Some less bulky feeds return 

 more profit. 



At the Kansas Station they fed corn meal and alfalfa hay, allowing 

 the hogs to eat what they Vvanted. They did not eat as much of the 

 hay as of the leaves at the Nebraska Experiment Station. They made 

 about the same gain at about the same cost in grain, per cwt., $3.36. 

 The corn meal lot, fed in comparison with this corn meal and alfalfa 

 hay produced about the same gain, but it required much more grain, at 

 the same cost, however, on account of the fact that grain alone was used 

 in this case. Ihere was no financial gain and no gain in the rate of 

 making pork with alfalfa hay at $8 per ton and corn at 30 cents a bushel. 

 It would have been better to sell a part of that corn and buy something 

 less bulky than alfalfa hay to feed to the hogs. 



TABLE IV 



INDIANA STATION. 



Rations. 



Daily 

 Gain. 



Grain per 

 cwt., Gain 



Cost per 100 

 lbs. 



Corn meal 10, tankage 1 



Corn meal 5, tankage 1 



IOWA STATION. 



Corn meal 5, tankage 1 



Corn meal , 



L17 

 1 24 



2.57 

 2.08 



370 



378 



381 

 461 



$2 59 

 2 95 



2 97 

 2 93 



The Iowa and Indiana Stations have done some work on the sub- 

 ject of feeding tankage to hogs. Tankage is a good feed for hogs — 

 a splendid feed, but the one question is, can we afford to feed it? Let 

 us see what the Experiment Stations say on the subject. The Indiana 



