SUCCULENT A.\D l^LLKV FEEDS 201 



Pumpkin seeds are a natural vermifuge and are valuable 

 for hogs afflicted with any kind of worms. 



Pumpkins are sometimes cooked for swine, but recent 

 experiments indicate that this is not profitable. Trials 

 at the Central experimental farm of Canada (Annual 

 Report of Experimental Farms, 1900), and the Oregon 

 (Bulletin No. 54) and New Hampshire (Bulletin No. 

 66) experiment stations have been averaged by Rommel 

 (Bulletin No. 47. Part II. Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture) to show that a pound 

 of pork gain was made from z.j}^ pounds of grain with 

 3.76 pounds of raw pumpkin, as compared with 2.22 

 pounds of grain with 11.5 pounds of cooked pumpkin. 

 Results from the experiments are shown in the table on 

 page 262. 



In the Canadian experiment the grain mixture was 

 half corn and one-sixth eacli of oats, peas and barley. 

 Shorts were fed with the pumpkins at the Oregon station, 

 and skim milk and corn meal were given in the New 

 Hampshire experiment. 



A trial of feeding pigs rations of skim milk and raw 

 pumpkins was also made at the New Hampshire station 

 (Bulletin No. 66). In estimating profits the pumpkins 

 were valued at 40 cents per ton, the bare cost of raising 

 in the field, and skim milk at 20 cents per hundredweight. 

 Three shotes averaging 141 pounds each were fed for 25 

 days on all the pumpkins they would eat and a daily al- 

 lowance each of 8.4 pounds of milk. They were charged 

 by Agriculturist C. W. Burkett, who conducted and re- 

 l)orted the experiment, with eating 3.798 pounds of 

 pumpkins, which would be the astonishing daily average 



