ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 



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iu feeding the young pigs a full feed of corn in summer on pasture instead of 

 a part feed as is often done. Eacli of the lots at pasture had a small movable 

 hog house for shelter and shade. The grass was mostly timothy and blue 

 grass, with a little sprinkling of fescues, cheat, and sedges, but no clovers. 

 Meat meal was used to supply protein to all hogs that did not have access to 

 pasture, in order to produce more rapid and cheaper gains than could be made 

 with corn alone. The cost of shelling corn was 1 ct. per bushel, of shelling 

 and grinding 3 cts., and of grinding corn-and-cob meal 6 cts. 



Corn-and-cob meal gave the poorest results of any form iu which corn was 

 supplied. The claim occasionally made that a pound of corn-and-cob meal is 

 equal to a pound of corn meal for pig feeding found no support in these results. 

 When fed either dry or soaked 12 hours the cob appeared to be worse than 

 useless. In each case when ear corn, which would have yielded 83 per cent 

 of shelled corn, was ground into corn-and-cob meal it was found that less than 

 83 per cent of its weight in corn meal would produce an equal amount of pork. 

 The wasting of feed w;is undoubtedly greatest with the lots getting dry corn 

 meal. 



The following table gives a summary of the 2 years' work : 



Summary of results of feeding corn prepared in different icays to hogs of all 



ages. 



SPRING PIGS STARTED AT WEANING TIME ON PASTURE. 



HOGS WEIGHING 100 LBS. AT START, FED IN SPRING AND SUMMER IN DRY 



YARDS. 



Dry ear corn 



Soaked shelled corn 



Dry corn meal 



. Soaked com meal . . . 



5.33 

 5.14 

 5.53 

 5.32 



HOGS WEIGHING 200 LBS. .\T START, FED IN SPRING AND SUMMER IN DRY 



YARDS. 



Dry ear com 



Soaked shelled com . 



Dry corn meal 



Soaked corn meal 



5.41 

 5.26 

 5.44 

 5.55 



