570 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Peanuts made the most satisfactory pasture, soy beans ranking second. 

 Tankage proved exceedingly satisfactory. 



"Mature sorglium pasture has very little to recommend it as a feal for 

 fattening swine. Both the gains and the financial outcome were unsatisfactory. 



" When the sorghum was cut and carried to the hogs the results were better 

 than when the hogs were made to graze the crop. 



" The expense of extracting the juice from the sorghum and feeding the 

 juice only prohibits its use in this way, although excellent daily gains were 

 made. In no case was the juice found to be worth more than 1.8 cts. a gallon 

 as a feed for hogs." 



The results with various corn supplements for the past 3 years were as 

 follows: When corn was fed alone the average daily gain was 0.69 lb. at a cost 

 of 7.G3 cts. per pound ; with corn and cotton-seed meal 2 : 1 the daily gains 

 averaged 1.04 lbs. at a cost of .5.70 cts. ; with corn and tankage 9 : 1, 1.04 lbs. at a 

 cost of 5.18 cts. ; with corn and cowpeas 1 : 1, 0.94 lb. at a cost of 5.11 cts. ; with 

 corn and peanut pasture 1.01 lbs. at a cost of 3.2 cts. and with corn and sorghum 

 pasture 0.37 lb. at a cost of 11.9 cts. With corn and cotton-seed meal 2 : 1 and 

 peanut pasture the daily gains averaged 1 lb. at a cost of 2.14 cts. ; with corn 

 and cotton-seed meal 2 : 1 and sorghum pasture 0.46 lb. at a cost of 7.79 cts. ; 

 with corn and chufa pasture 0.72 lb. at a cost of 8.89 cts. ; with corn and soy 

 bean pasture 1.02 lbs. at a cost of 2.74 cts. ; and with corn and cotton-seed meal 

 2 : 1 plus cut sorghum 0.75 lb. at a cost of 4.86 cts. 



The cost of planting and cultivating the pasture is included in these figures. 

 Corn was valuetl at 70 cts. and cowpeas at 80 cts. per bushel, and cotton-seed 

 meal at $20 and tankage $40 per ton. " When hogs sell from 5 to 7 cts. a pound 

 live weight the farmer can not afford to sell his corn for 70 cts. per bushel." 

 Tables show the prices realized on each bushel of corn when hogs sold at 

 various prices. 



" While the results are not all in agreement, yet they seem to indicate that 

 it is more often profitable to finish hogs upon dry feeds rather than to sell 

 directly from pastures." 



Slaughter tests were made, from which it is concluded that when hogs dress 

 72 per cent of the live weight it makes little difference whether they are sold 

 at 5 cts. per pound live weight or 7 cts. per pound dressed weight if the expense 

 of killing is not considered. At the.se prices, however, a hog that will dress 80 

 per cent is more profitably sold when dressed. 



Swine feeding, C. A. Willson {Missouri Sta. Circ. Inform. 28, pp. 16, figs. 3; 

 Ann. Rpt. Mo. Bd. Agr.. ',0 {1901), pp. 216-231).— A. popular discussion of the 

 care and management of swine, and of the investigations at several experiment 

 stations on the subject. 



The first farmers' bacon factory in the United King-dom, L. M. Douglas 

 {yaua Agr. .Jour.. 11 (190S). Xo. 8. pp. 966-972, pi. 1).—A study of the farmers' 

 cooperative bacon factories which have stimulated the curing of bacon in Den- 

 mark, led to the formation of a cooperative factory at Roscrea, Tipperary 

 County, Ireland, long noted as a pig-raising district. The factory has been in 

 operation since January 2, 1908. There are about 28,000 shareholders. Two 

 hundred pigs per week are handled, but the Wiltshire sides, sausages, and black 

 puddings pi'oduced are not sutRcient to supply the home demand. 



Feeding and care of horses, E. A. Trowbridge {Missouri 8ta. Circ. Inform. 

 27, pp. 10, figs. 3; Ann. Rpt. Mo. Bd. Agr., J,0 {1907), pp. 206-231).— Contains 

 general information regarding the feeding and care of stallions, breeding mares 

 and foals, growing horses and work horses. 



Dried potatoes as a food for horses, E. Parow {Ztschr. Spiritusindiis., 31 

 (1908), Xo. J,2, pp. -'i62, ^65).— Additional notes (E. S. R., 19, p. 570), wherein 



