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shorts make a more satisfactory slop for pigs than can 

 be made of bran. 



KAFIR-CORN 



Two experiments were carried on at the Kansas sta- 

 tion by Prof. C. C. Georgeson in feeding swine with red 

 Kafir-corn meal. The first was planned to ascertain the 

 relative feeding value of Kafir-corn meal, corn meal and 

 ground wheat. Twelve shotes eight months old were 

 selected for the test, and divided into three lots, consist- 

 ing of one barrow and three sows each. The test con- 

 tinued from December zy to March 14. The feed, 

 mostly, was wet overnight and each shote was given all 

 it would eat, but no more. They were penned in a 

 gloomy barn basement. From the results obtained the 

 following conclusions were drawn : 



"In the comparison of wheat, corn and red Kafir-corn 

 as fattening food for hogs, the wheat proved to be the 

 most effective, followed closely by corn ; red Kafir-corn, 

 although a good feed, was not equal in fattening qualities 

 to either of the others. It required respectively 4. 11 

 pounds of wheat and 4.38 pounds of corn to produce a 

 pound of gain, while of red Kafir-corn it required 5.15 

 pounds to produce the same result ; but it sliould be 

 noted in this connection that the experiment was carried 

 out during the coldest portion of the winter and that the 

 hogs were confined strictly to these feeds. Under favor- 

 able weather the results would doubtless have been much 

 better, and in like manner, these grains might have given 

 tlilTerent results if fed in judicious mixtures with other 

 suitable feed." 



