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it would require four to five weeks additional feeding, 

 with ordinary weather, to get the hogs that were fed 

 grain alone into good marketable condition. 



"The gains in nine weeks from the different methods 

 of feeding were as follows : 



Gains per hog 

 in pounds 



Kafir-corn meal dry and alfalfa hay 90.9 



Kafir-corn whole 59.4 



Kafir-corn meal fed dry 52.4 



Kafir-corn meal fed wet 63.3 



"The gain from feeding alfalfa hay with Kafir-corn 

 meal fed dry, over the meal alone fed dry, is more than 

 y}, per cent. 



"The gains per bushel of feed were as follows : 



Pounds 

 Kafir-corn meal dry and 7.83 pounds alfalfa hay. . 10.88 



Kafir-corn whole 8.56 



Kafir-corn meal fed dry 7.48 



Kafir-corn meal fed wet 8.09 



"Ten hogs in nine weeks were fed 656 pounds of 

 alfalfa hay; and as shown above, for each 7.83 pounds 

 of alfalfa hay fed with the dry Kafir-corn meal, the hogs 

 gained 3.4 pounds over those having dry Kafir-corn 

 meal alone — a gain of 868 pounds of pork per ton of 

 alfalfa hay. These results are not due to the feeding 

 value of the alfalfa alone, but also to its influence in 

 aiding the hogs to better digest the Kafir-corn. The 

 alfalfa hay also gave a variety to the ration, making it 

 more appetizing and inducing the hogs to eat more grain. 



