664 FEEDS AND FEEDING 



Cocoanut meal, when not rancid, may be used in place of such feeds as 

 wheat middlings or linseed meal for swine feeding, but, like these feeds, 

 it does not give good results if fed as the only supplement to young pigs 

 not on pasture. 116 In trials by Thompson and Voorheis at the California 

 Station, 117 cocoanut meal has been worth about as much as barley per 

 ton for fattening hogs, when one part of cocoanut meal was fed with 3 or 

 4 parts of barley. In one test by Fjeldsted and Potter at the Oregon 

 Station 118 cocoanut meal gave good results when fed with barley, but in 

 2 other trials it was unpalatable to the pigs. In a trial by Hays at the 

 Delaware Station 119 cocoanut meal and corn produced as rapid gains on 

 150-lb. pigs in dry lot as did tankage and corn. (260) 



Buckwheat middlings gave poor results when fed as the only supple- 

 ment to corn for young pigs not on pasture, in trials by Robison at the 

 Ohio Station, 120 thus resembling wheat middlings and linseed meal. 

 (969, 973) Doubtless good results would be secured if dairy by-products, 

 tankage, or legume hay were added to such a ration. (244) 



Dried distillers' grains are not usually fed to swine. They are not 

 relished by pigs when fed as the only concentrate allowance, and, more- 

 over, are too bulky a feed to be supplied in large amounts to fattening 

 pigs. However, in a trial by Good and Smith at the Kentucky Station 121 

 pigs fed 3.3 Ibs. ground corn and 0.66 Ib. dried distillers' grains per head 

 daily in dry lot gained 0.88 Ib. and required 444 Ibs. concentrates for 

 100 Ibs. gain. Others fed corn and 0.51 Ib. dried distillers' grains on 

 good pasture gained 1.03 Ibs. a head daily and consumed only 300 Ibs. 

 concentrates for 100 Ibs. gain. (283) 



Distillery slop may be fed to pigs with good results when such con- 

 centrates as grain are supplied in addition, for the slop is too watery to 

 be fed alone. 



Sunflower seed proved satisfactory when equal parts of the seed and 

 corn were fed to 100-lb. pigs in a trial by Weaver at the Missouri Sta- 

 tion. 122 This ration compared favorably with a ration of corn and 

 tankage. Sunflower seed alone produced poor gains. It has been pointed 

 out before that sunflowers are not generally a profitable grain crop in 

 the United States. (259) 



III. FORAGE CROPS, PASTURE, AND OTHER SUCCULENT FEEDS ; HAY 



982. Importance of forage crops and pasture. Pastures are so im- 

 portant in pork production that they often make all the difference 

 between profit and loss. Few facts in swine feeding have been so clearly 

 proven, both by scientific experiments and in the common experience of 

 successful farmers, as the high value of pasture or forage crops for all 

 classes of swine. 



""Robison, Ohio Bui. 349. ^Ohio Bui. 349. 



u7 Cal. Bui. 335. m Ky. Bui. 190. 



118 Ore. Bui. 165. m Mo. Bui. 189, pp. 22-3. 



lw Del. Bui. 124. 



