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.2 1-3 months, when they received no grain, they gained 

 .5 pound each per day. 



Lots 5 and 28 were made up of brood sows from 

 wliich the pigs had been weaned for some time. These 

 gave a daily gain of .43 pound and .53 pound respective- 

 ly. The ax'crage of tiu'ee trials, including 42 hogs, gives 

 an average daily gain per hog of slightly less than half a 

 pound. ^J'his ])y mature hogs, thin in flesh, on alfalfa 

 pasture and water. 



The table herewith o-ives the details: 



Experiment No. 6. — With this lot (No. 29) was an 

 e.xperiment in fattening hogs on a full ration of corn 

 with alfalfa pasture, i'rom May 20 to July 15, 1906, 

 from 1/ to 20 liogs, averaging about 130 pounds each, 

 were fed a full ration of corn and given the run of a 

 five-acre lot of alfalfa. The total weight of the hogs put 

 into the field was 2,935 pounds. They ate 7,952 pounds 

 of corn, and gained 1,615 pounds. This gain was at the 

 rate of 1.6 jiounds daily for each hog. They ate 492 

 pounds of corn for each 100 pounds gained. One hun- 

 dred pounds of gain cost $3.07 with corn at 35 cents 

 per bushel. This left a profit of $2.43 on each 100 



