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The expense of extracting' the juice from the sorghum 

 and feeding" the juice only prohil^its its use in this way, 

 although excellent daily gains were made. In no case 

 was the juice found to be worth more than 1.8 cents a 

 gallon as a feed for hogs. 



Soy bean pasture ranked second to peanut oasture as 

 a supplement to corn. 



Chufa pasture was not found to be as good as either 

 peanuts or soy bean pasture. 



The a\erage daily gains were as follows : Corn alone, 

 .69 of a pound ; corn 2-3 of the ration with cottonseed 

 meal 1-3, 1.04 pounds; corn 9-10 with tankage i-io, 

 1.04 pounds; corn Y^. with cowpeas y2, .94 pound; corn 

 with peanut pasture, i.oi pounds; corn with sorghum 

 pasture, .t^j pound; corn 2-3 with cottonseed meal 1-3 

 with peanut pasture, i.oo pound; corn 2-3 with cotton- 

 seed meal 1-3 with sorghum pasture, .46 of a pound; 

 corn with chufa pasture, .72 of a pound; corn with soy 

 ])ean pasture, 1.02 pounds; corn 2-2, with cottonseed 

 meal 1-3 with soiled (cut) sorghum, .75 of a pound. 



The cosi (if one hundred pounds gain in each case, 

 when the cost of putting in and cultivating the pasture 

 crops was not taken into consideration, was as follows ; 

 Corn alone, $7.63 ; corn 2-3 with cottonseed meal 1-3, 

 $5.75 ; corn 9-10 with tankage i-io, $5.18; corn ^ with 

 cowpeas 3^, $5.11; corn with peanut pasture, $2.28; 

 corn with sorghum pasture. $5.46 ; corn 2-3 with cotton- 

 seed meal 1-3 with peanut pasture, $1.97; corn 2-3 with 

 cottonseed meal 1-3 with sorghum pasture, $4.85 ; corn 

 with chufa pasture, $3.81 ; corn with soy bean pasture. 



