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AGRICULTURAL REPORT 



to prevent the «urlac'c Iroai criistiug. Two cioi>s oiliay, cstioiLited at o 

 tous per acre, Avere takeu I'roni this ground, and alterward, in August, 

 120 large Highland bullocks v.ere turned in, averaging three bullocks 

 per acre. These remained till November, receiving no food but the ir- 

 rigated grass, and were kept in first-rate condition. On the contrary, 

 430 acres unirrigated became so withered and bare from the summer 

 drought as to afford scarcely any food to cattle or sheep. In March, 

 1S72, guano was applied on the irrigated land and on the adjoining 

 permanent pasture, not irrigated, the quantity and quality of applica- 

 tion being alike in both cases. On the irrigated land a thick growth of 

 grass, 9 inches long, was produced, grazed in the first week of April. 

 At this latter date there was no appreciable change in the growth of 

 the adjoining pasture further than a change of color to a darker green. 



FEEDING HOGS WITH CORN IN THE EAR AND COOKED IMEAL. 



Mr. J. M. Billingsley, of Spring Valley, Indiana, in the latter part of 

 1870 placed in his hog-house one of Anderson's steamers, and took 

 twenty hogs, crosses of Chester White, Poland, and Berkshire, dividing 

 them fairly, according to his best judgment, into two lots. Ten were 

 fed with meal, cooked, 5G pounds to the bushel, as much as they would 

 eat clean. The others were fed on corn in the ear, G8 pounds to the 

 bushel. Except in these particulars of feeding the treatment was uni- 

 form throughout. The following table gives the result : 



Average daily gain, per hog : Lot 1, 1.29 pounds ; lot 2, 1.4G pounds. 

 Average gain per bushel of corn : Lot 1, 1.IS pound>^^ lot 2, 1.07 pounds. 

 The cost of shelling the corn, carriage to mill, grindingj and cooking 

 must be charged against the cooked meal. 



COOKED AND UNCOOKED POOD. 



Mr* L. E. Bingham, of Bloomington, Grant County, Wisconsin, states 

 that having purchased an Anderson steamer he commenced, February 

 lo, 1S71, an experiment in feeding nineteen pigs about twelve months 

 old, a cross of Berkshire with common stock. They had had jirevi- 

 ously the run of the farm, and for two months had had all the corn 

 they could eat. Their united weight at the beginning of the experi- 

 ment was .5,082 pounds. For twenty-eight days they were fed as before 

 with corn in the ear and ail the water they would drink. At the close 

 of this period their total gain in weight was GG7 pounds, made from 



