SUCCULENT AND CULKV FEEDS 2(\] 



per shote of 50.64 pounds. The gain was 84 pounds for 

 the lot of three shotes, as compared with a gain of 170 

 pounds for a similar lot fed for an equivalent period on 

 a ration of skim milk, corn meal and raw pumpkins. The 

 food for the latter lot cost $5.64, and the market value of 

 the gain was $9.35 at 5>^ cents a pound for live pork, 

 making a profit of $3.71. For the lot fed on milk and 

 pumpkins only the gain was worth $4.62, and the cost 

 for food was but $2.00, making a profit of $2.62. The 

 average gain per day was 1.12 pounds by each shote of 

 the lot having no corn meal, as compared with a daily 

 gain of 2.26 pounds per shote in the lot given the meal. 



Squashes are not so frequently used in hog feeding, 

 althougii tiieir value should be fully equal to that of 

 pumpkins, and hogs will eat them quite as readily. Doubt- 

 less the hardness and thickness of the rinds of most 

 squashes has an influence against them. In sections 

 where they are grown in quantities for their seeds 

 squashes with their seeds removed are usually best turned 

 to proht by swine. 



A Colorado farmer relates the followmg in reference 

 to the use of Hubbard .squashes in that State : "A neigh- 

 bor claims he can finish the fattening of hogs on Hub- 

 bard squashes in one-half the time he can with corn, 

 while with pumpkins he can only make them hold tlieir 

 own. He says he can finish a hog in fair condition in 

 six weeks on about one ton of squashes, making a 200-to- 

 250 pound hog. He cuts the squashes and feeds them 

 raw, and says the hogs clean up everything, shell and 

 all." 



