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whether on an alfalfa farm or elsewhere, make very 

 rapid gains, and we believe will make better use of corn 

 than hogs grown on a corn ration. In fact, we are very 

 sure of this. Theoretically it can be no other way. \\'e 

 found indications too, that hogs grown on alfalfa have 

 much greater power to resist cholera than those grown 

 on corn and subjected to the same disease under the same 

 conditions. Theoretically this should be true, and we 

 believe experience will prove it." 



A SOILING TEST IN 3nSSOURI 



The Missouri station (Bulletin No. 79) made a test 

 covering 102 days — from July 25 to November 4 — with 

 -lots of six 50-pound high-grade Poland-China pigs, to 

 compare the value of various forage plants, especiallv 

 fresh rape, alfalfa, red clover and blue grass, when com- 

 bined with corn, or rather corn meal, for growing and 

 fattening hogs. The pigs were kept in clean pens having 

 shelter from the sun, and floored with granitoid. Their 

 feed and deep well water were given them morning and 

 evening, and salt mixed with wood ashes and a little 

 bone meal was always within reach. The green feed was 

 cut and hauled to the pens fresh and all given that they 

 would eat without waste. The corn meal was of me- 

 dium fineness and fed wet to the consistency of a thick 

 dough. Gain on the pigs given alfalfa cost $3 per hun- 

 dred pounds; on those given clover, $3.25; on those 

 having blue grass, $3.96. The same pigs in the first 40 

 days of the same experiment had among them one lot of 

 six which were fed green rape with the corn meal ration. 

 In this 40 days the cost per hundred pounds of gain was 



