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lose weight. When grain was added to the ration 

 the pigs kept in excellent condition and the di- 



estive value of apples is thereby made apparent, 

 ugar beets have been perhaps more extensively 

 tested as a hog food than any other common 

 root. In Utah hogs have been found to gain in a 

 very satisfactory manner on a ration of two pounds 

 of bran per day and sugar beets ad libitum. 

 Sugar beets may be profitably used as a part of 

 the ration for pig feed during the winter months 

 throughout the pork-producing area. In Mon- 

 tana when two sets of pigs were fed for the purpose 

 of comparison, one lot receiving a grain ration 

 only and the other receiving sugar beets in ad- 

 dition to the grain, the pigs which received the 

 sugar beets made a slightly larger daily gain and 

 produced pork one cent per pound cheaper than 

 those which received grain only. If sugar beets 

 are fed to hogs they may be harvested and fed 

 whole or the hogs may be turned into the field and 

 allowed to do their own harvesting. Very little 

 of the crop is wasted by the latter method and all 

 of the expense and labor of harvesting is obviously 

 saved. On all farms which are conveniently 

 located to sugar factories or to which the pulp 

 may be shipped by rail, sugar beet pulp may be 

 fed with profit in fattening hogs. The value of 

 pulp for feeding is nearly equal, pound for pound, 

 to that of sugar beets. Beet pulp should not be 

 fed in too large quantities. In Colorado the pulp 

 proved to be a profitable addition to the ration 

 of growing pigs and also to the grain ration at the 

 first period of fattening. The feeding value of 

 sugar beets and also of the pulp appeared to be 

 about $1.50 per ton. The pulp, however, served 

 the same purpose as the beets and could be ob- 



