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Very little difference is noted between skim-milk and buttermilk. The 

 gains of the hogs in the different lots are nearly equal, but the amount of 

 grain consumed per one hundred pounds of gain is considerably less with 

 the hogs on pasture. The gains and grainconsumed per one hundred pounds 

 of gain are practically the same for alfalfa and rape pasture. The area re- 

 quired for the hogs on rape was twice that required for those on alfalfa. 



EXPERIENCE WITH RUNT PIGS. 



After the shoats suitable for experimenting were placed in the feed-lots 

 in the summer of 1902, there remained behind a few runts that were rather 

 sorry-looking specimens. We made a combination of the best feeds we had 

 and undertook to see what we could do in bringing out these runts. They 

 were placed on rape pasture and given a grain mixture of one-third corn, 

 one-third Kafir-corn and one-third shorts. For every one hundred and fifty 

 pounds of this mixture there was added twenty pounds of dried blood and 

 thirty pounds of soy-beans. This feed, together with good care, produced 

 some excellent results, as shown in Table VII. 



TABLE VII-RESULTS ON FEEDING RUNT PIGS. 



In addition to the grain ration, the hogs in the above experiment picked 

 up a little feed by running after steers, of which it was impossible to take 

 any account in the above table. For grain fed the cost was $2.64 per one 

 hundred pounds of gain. The pigs sold for $6.25 per hundred- weight, 

 leaving $3.61 per one hundred pounds of gain to pay for labor and what little 

 pasture and steer droppings were consumed. 



