FRUIT WASTES FOR STOCK-FEEDING 5Q1 



pumpkins, citrons and alfalfa are the best feed to give the hogs in 

 conjunction with the raisins, but in the spring a change is found 

 very beneficial. 



Many people feeding raisins to hogs are not having the success 

 they should because they overfeed their porkers. A pound of 

 raisins a day is ample to start in with. After the system of the hog 

 has become accustomed to the raisins the amount can be increased 

 so that the last three weeks each hog should get about four pounds 

 of raisins a day. The last ten days, when the finishing touches are 

 being put on, the hogs should be allowed all they can get." 



Cull and second-crop raisins beat barley, pound for pound, as 

 a feed for work mules, according to O. Peterson of the W. M. Gifnn 

 vineyard near Dinuba, who fed sixteen mules nothing but a gallon 

 a feed twice per day of raisins with alfalfa hay. The mules had 

 received practically nothing else for years, says Mr. Peterson, and 

 were reported "hog fat," showing that their appetites do not fail on 

 the fruit. Stems and all are fed, and a few moldy raisins in the lot 

 do not seem to signify. 



A San Joaquin County grower reported feeding dried cull To- 

 kays. For five years he has dried all the culls he needed from the 

 early pickings. Horses, cows and calves eat them, stems and all, and 

 he considers these dried grapes at least equal in feed value to barley. 



Wine grapes rich in sugar have been cheaply dried on the ground 

 and used to advantage for hog feed. One grower says that having 

 more than the hogs required, grapes were fed to the horses : "The 

 horses soon got a taste for them and seemed to thrive well on the 

 new diet and in a short time became fat and sleek, while they were 

 being worked as hard as ever, and we continued to feed them dried 

 grapes and have kept it up for a whole year. The effect seems to 

 have made the old horses five years younger, both in looks and in 

 ability to work. The hogs fattened up so quickly that we thought 

 the pork would be soft and sloppy, but to our surprise, we never had 

 better bacon and ham than was produced from these grape-fed pork- 

 ers. It was not only solid, but sweet and tender." 



Prune-fed and Taisin-fed pork is indeed an accomplished fact in 

 California. As to the acceptability of the fruit diet to the hog, what 

 could be more pertinent and more fitting appendix to this treatise 

 than this little tale? It is stated that Mr. Balaam, of Farmersville, 

 used to have a pet pig that ran under the fig trees near the house. 

 When the fruit began to drop, he ate figs and rested in the shade 

 until he finally grew too fat to move about to gather the sweet 

 morsels. By this time his owner became so much interested in the 

 case as to carry him his figs regularly three times daily. Gradually 

 he grew so fat that his eyes closed entirely, but still he ate figs in 

 contentment and delight. 



