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MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



TABLE II. 



MISSOURI STATION.- 90 DAYS SOILING EXPERIMENT. 



Rations. 



Torn meal and blue trrass. 



<.'orn meal, rape 



Corn meal, clover- 



Oorn meal, alfalfa 



Corn meal, mllW 



$3 31 

 3 07 

 2 73 

 2 53 

 1 55 



Average weight, 4S lbs. 



As to what kind of pasture we shall use, we have very few data on 

 that question. Here at the Missouri Station an experiment was carried 

 out year before last with g^reen feeds cut and fed with corn to pigs in 

 small pens. That is not equivalent to pasturing the pigs on these feeds 

 but it affords us an accurate comparison of the actual value of the feeds 

 as they grow, though probably not just as the pig selects them while he 

 grazes. The substance of the matter is that with corn worth thirty cents 

 a bushel it costs $3.31 a hundred pounds to make pork with blue grass, 

 S3.07 to make pork with rape, $2.73 to make pork with red clover, $2.52 

 to make pork with green alfalfa and $1.55 to make pork with milk; so it 

 takes less grain to make one hundred pounds of pork with skim milk 

 than with any of the green feeds tested. 



TABLE in. 



NEBRASKA STATION. 



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We hear a good deal about feeding hogs on alfalfa pasture and hay. 

 The Kansas and Nebraska stations have studied this matter pretty thor- 

 oughly. What is there in it? At Nebraska they feed hogs on alfalfa 

 pasture with almost exactly the same result as in our soiling experiments. 



