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would eat without waste. The hay was fed dry in fork- 

 fuls in a large flat trough. The pigs were given more 

 than they could eat, and they picked out the leaves and 

 finer stems, rejecting the coarser stems. One lot of hogs 

 was fed Kafir-corn meal dry and alfalfa hay; one lot 

 whole Kafir-corn dry; one lot Kafir-corn meal dry, and 

 one lot Kafir-corn meal wet. 



"The experiment began on November 24 and lasted 

 nine weeks. By that time the alfalfa-fed hogs became 

 well fattened, and were marketed. We estimated that it 

 would require four to five weeks additional feeding, with 

 ordinary weather, to get the hogs that were fed grain 

 alone into good marketable condition. 



"The gain in nine weeks from the different methods of 

 feeding were as follows : 



Gains per hog 

 in pounds 



Kafir-corn meal dry and alfalfa hay. .90.9 



Kafir-corn whole 59.4 



Kafir-corn meal fed dry 52.4 



Kafir-corn meal fed wet 6;^.^ 



"The gain from feeding alfalfa hay with Kafir-corn 

 meal fed dry, over the meal alone fed dry, is more than 

 73 per cent. 



"The gains per bushel of feed were as follows : 



Pounds 



Kafir-corn meal dry and 7.83 pounds 



alfalfa hay 10.88 



Kafir-corn whole 8.56 



Kafir-corn meal fed dry 7.48 



Kafir-corn meal fed wet , 8.09 



