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10 Guernsey cows entered in the Advanced Register have a four-years 

 average of 11915.7 lbs. of milk and 630.93 lbs. of fat. 



The Club numbers 530 members, of whom 64 joined last year. 



Its capital is about $ 216 251 63 and its expenditure last year $ 83 272 07. 



889 - Pig Breeding and Intensive Maize and Soya Pasturage, in the United States. — 



Beavers J. C. (Purdue University), in The Breeder's Gazette, Vol. I,XIX, No. 22, pp. 

 1160-1161. Chicago, June i, igi6. 



The importance of combining soya with maize in connection with pig 

 breeding is clearly brought out by the facts collected by this writer and due 

 partly to actual practical work and partly to the breeding tests carried out 

 for Purdue University. 



From the food trials it has been found that 8.8 lbs. of maize plus 2.2 

 lbs. of soya are equivalent, for pig fattening, to 15.2 lbs. of maize alone. By 

 combining soya with maize, an intensive pasturage for pigs is obtained, by 

 which the maximum of unit yields may be secured. The following are, in 

 brief, the increases of weight obtained per acre during the experiments and 

 those yielded in practice, together with the rules for combining the two feeds: 



Carroll Co. {Indiana). — A plot of 5 i/4 acres put down to maize com- 

 bined with soya was reserved for pasturing 99 pigs averaging 108 lbs. 

 weight each, for a period of 27 days and gave a total increase of live 

 weight of 5 288 lbs. or 2 lbs. each per day. The presumable crop of maize 

 would have been about 70 to 75 bushels per acre, and that of soya 12 to 14 

 bushels. 



Clarke Co. — A plot of 2-3 acre in 15 days produced an increase in weight 

 of 1210 lbs., or 526 lbs. per acre, in 34 pigs, plus a further increase of 74 

 lbs. obtained with some sows by utilising the pasturage residues. In all a 

 live weight increase of 600 pounds per acre resulted. The anticipated crop 

 would have been about 45 bushels per acre. 



In the trials of combining soya with maize the average yield obtained 

 was as much as 61 bushels total grain per acre, and the yield of maize was al- 

 most always higher on the parts where it was combined with soya than on 

 those where it was not. In two cases, with non-inoculated soya seeds, there 

 was a yield markedly unfavourable to the combination, owing to the fact 

 that the soya, being almost completely devoid of root nodules, deprived the 

 maize of a good proportion of the soil nitrogen. 



For ensilage the combination of soya with maize is also preferable to 

 maize alone. The many trials carried out yielded, on the average, an in- 

 crease of 2521 lbs. silage per acre over the yield of maize grown alone ; in 

 wet years, an average increase of 3600 lbs. per acre in favour of the combina- 

 tion. Moreover, the resulting forage is richer in protein substances than 

 maize forage alone. 



Putting pigs out to pasture forms in turn the best mode of turning 

 the crop to account and many experiments, borne out by practice, have 

 proved that the successive growing for several years of maize together with 

 soya on the same plot, with the object of feeding the standing crop to pigs, 

 does not noticeably reduce the fertility of the soil, because, in addition to 



