298 SWINE IN AMERICA 



$1.96; corn 2-T, and cottonseed meal 1-3 with soiled sor- 

 ^•luini, $3.39. 



The cost of one hundred pounds gain in each case, 

 wiien the cost of putting in and cultivating the pasture 

 crops was counted against the gains, was as follows: 

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

 $5.75; corn 9-10 with tankage i-io, $5.18; corn 3^ with 

 cowpeas yl, $5.11; corn with peanut pasture, $3.20; 

 corn with sorghum pasture, $11.90; corn 2-3 with cot- 

 tonseed meal 1-3 with peanut pasture, 2.14; corn 2-3 

 with cottonseed meal 1-3 with sorghum pasture, $7.79; 

 corn with chufa pasture, $8.89; corn with soy bean pas- 

 ture, $2.74; corn 2-3 with cottonseed meal 1-3 with 

 soiled sorghum, $4.86. 



When hogs have been grazing a green crop it usually 

 pays to inclose and feed them in a dry lot for a short 

 period after the green crop is exhausted. 



'i'o secure a better price for tlie corn, feed it in com- 

 bination with some other feed. 



When hogs bring from 5 to 7 cents a pound live weight 

 the farmer cannot afford to sell his corn for 70 cents a 

 bushel. 



The Missouri station (Bulletin 65) finds that "corn 

 alone, however prepared, even as cheap as 30 cents per 

 bushel, is a very expensive feed for dry-lot pork produc- 

 tion. . . . Soaking corn is much less expensive than 

 grinding, and nearly as valuable. . . . Summer feed- 

 ing in Missouri in the dry lot seems to require very much 

 more grain per pound of gain than is re(|uired in spring 

 and fall. The roughage picked up by the pig in pasttu'e 

 is a very important part of the ration." 



