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thrive, and this difficulty may sometimes be partly remedied by grinding 

 or soaking the feed, and oftentimes by cooking, but a much more effective 

 remedy will be to give them a limited amount of ship stuff with the corn 

 in winter; and in summer, by allowing them the run of a good clover, 

 cowpea or Soy bean pasture. When hogs with plenty of corn are free 

 from any specific disease, and yet cease to thrive, it is certain that they 

 need a greater variety of feed. A limited quantity of artichokes or cull 

 potatoes boiled will be very helpful at this poini. Nothing is as good 

 at this time as skim milk fed sweet. 



THE VALUE OE DIEEEKEXT KINDS Oh' PASTUKE. 



The Missouri Experiment Station has just completed a very inter- 

 esting experiment, in which bluegrass, red clover, alfalfa and rape pas- 

 tures were compared. It is to be borne in mind that clover and alfalfa 

 supplied more protein than either bluegrass or rape, and that they there- 

 fore balanced the corn which the hogs had in addition to the green feed. 

 more effectively than either rape or bluegrass. These results are better 

 shown by the half-tones made from photographs of each lot of hogs with 

 the feed consumed and cost of gains shown under each lot. 



LOT 5. CORX AND BLUE(!KASS — SIX PIGS. 



Weight at beginning of experiment 271 pounds. 

 Weight at close of experiment 656 pounds. 

 Total gain in ninety days 385 pounds. 

 Average daily gain per pig .71 pounds. 

 Grain required per pound of gain. 5.2 pounds. 



Cost Per Hundred Pounds of Gain— Corn 40 cents per bushel, green blue- 

 grass $3 per ton — $3.92. 



