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barley alone, will depend pretty much on the price of barley. If the 

 above amount cost as much as one and one-half cents per pound, at 

 the average prices of hogs, there would be little or no profit. It is 

 much more economical if some green feed can be fed in addition. In 

 an experiment where for one lot of hogs we cut the alfalfa green and 

 brought it to them, while the others were allowed to run on pasture, 

 the gains were practically the same and the amount of grain was 

 exactly the same. This would rather indicate that for market hogs, 

 practically as cheap gains can be made by cutting the green feed and 

 bringing it to them. This green feed does not necessarily need to be 

 alfalfa, but might be vetch, rape, field peas, or some similar food. 



We begin feeding some barley with equal parts of shorts as soon 

 as the pigs are old enough to eat. A pig after weaning can oftentimes 

 eat as much as five per cent of his body weight in grain. This would 

 mean that a fifty-pound pig would consume about two and a half 

 pounds per day. A pig weighing 200 pounds or more is not liable to 

 eat over two per cent of his weight daily for a long period, although 

 pigs of this weight can oftentimes eat six or six and a half pounds of 

 barley per day if nothing else is fed in addition. Prof. J. I. Thompson, 

 University Farm. 



Hogging-Off Emmer. 



/ have about two acres in emmer. I do not think it will make 

 good hay on account of the strong beards it has. Would it be advisable 

 to build a fence around it and turn the hogs in and let them thresh 

 it out? 



Yes; it would probably be the best use you could make of it. As a 

 feed grain for all kinds of animals emmer is much inferior to barley, corn 

 and sorghum. It can, however, be profitably mixed with them and much 

 better results attained than by feeding it alone. It also works well fed 

 with alfalfa. Emmer is hardy and productive under drouth and that is 

 about the best that can be said of it. 



Tomatoes for Hogs. 



Is there any food value in tomatoes? If any, how much? Do 

 they make good hog feed? 



Tomatoes are doubtless fed occasionally to hogs, but I know of no 

 case where they have 'been fed in large amounts or for a considerable 

 period of time. They contain about 95 per cent of water, or only one- 

 half as much solid materials as skim milk or buttermilk. The dry matter 

 of tomatoes consists largely of different kinds of sugar, with some protein 

 substances, organic acids (mainly citric acid), and mineral matter. On 

 account of the great dilution in which these feed materials occur in 

 tomatoes, and the relatively high acidity content of these, they should 

 only be fed sparingly, along with dry roughage and grain. Fed under 

 such conditions, there is every reason to believe that they will prove 

 valuable for feeding hogs and will add to the palatability and nutritive 

 effects of the rations. F. W. W. 



