[96 SWINE IN AMERICA 



FURTHER KANSAS TESTS 



R. J. Kinzer, animal husbandry professor at the Kan- 

 sas station, writes the author in February, 1908, that an 

 experiment of his covering 65 days ''indicates that for 

 every 12 pounds of green alfalfa fed in connection with 

 corn, one additional pound of pork was produced. In 

 this particular experiment it took 595 pounds of corn 

 fed alone to make 100 pounds of pork, and 500 pounds 

 of corn with 190 pounds of green alfalfa to produce 100 

 pounds of pork, or a bushel of corn in connection with 21 

 pounds of green alfalfa to produce 11.2 pounds of pork. 

 From this it may be seen that the 190 pounds of fresh, 

 green alfalfa was apparently the equivalent in pork 

 making to the 95 pounds of corn where corn alone was 

 fed, in which case, as will be noted, the average was 

 slightly under six pounds of corn to each pound of pork 

 produced, which would credit the 95 pounds of corn with 

 a fraction less than 16 pounds of pork. On this basis, 

 the 190 pounds of green alfalfa would produce also about 

 16 pounds of pork, or at the rate of one pound of pork 

 for each 12 pounds of alfalfa consumed. Estimating 

 that an acre will yield during a season 20,000 pounds 

 of green alfalfa, this experiment would show that the 

 product of such an acre of alfalfa fed green to swine, 

 with corn, would give something like 1,670 pounds of 

 pork. While this might be literally true, the point-blank 

 statement that an acre of green alfalfa would produce 

 1.670 pounds of pork might at the same time be entirely 

 misleading. In one test made in winter, we found that 

 TOO pounds of alfalfa hay saved 96 pounds of corn. 

 Figuring on the basis of five pounds of corn producing 



