140 RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN SWINE FEEDING 



Indiana. Circular 12 of the Indiana Experiment Station 

 gives a summary of nine hundred and twenty-nine replies to 

 questions bearing upon beef production, sent out by the 

 Experiment Station. Eighty-eight per cent of those sending 

 replies reported that it is not profitable to feed cattle unless 

 hogs follow. The average number of hogs per steer was 

 1.5, which is regarded as high by the authors of the bulletin, 

 unless additional feed is supplied the hogs. Indiana experi- 

 ments indicate that the waste will not support more than one 

 hog to a steer. The average age of hogs preferred by cattle 

 feeders for following steers was about 5 months, and the aver- 

 age weight 92 pounds, denoting that comparatively thin, active 

 hogs are preferred for the purpose. The average rate of gain 

 on hogs following cattle was reported as 1.4 pounds per hog 

 per day. 



Missouri. Bulletin 76 of the Missouri Experiment Sta- 

 tion is similar to the Indiana circular, and embraces the 

 experience of nearly a thousand cattle feeders in Missouri, 

 Iowa, and Illinois. Director Waters summarizes the replies to 

 the questions of the number of hogs per steer, as follows : " An 

 approximate average number of hogs per steer would be like 

 the following, on the basis of two-year-old cattle and 100- or 

 150-pound hogs: Snapped ear corn, 2 to 3 hogs per steer; ear 

 corn, 1% hogs per steer; shelled corn,- 1 to 1%, hogs per steer; 

 crushed or ground corn, % to % hog per steer." 



Some Conclusions. The more liberally the cattle are fed, 

 the more hogs can be maintained upon their droppings, and 

 it is quite likely that the greater care exercised by experiment 

 stations in feeding steers, to prevent waste, accounts for the 

 greater number of hogs maintained per steer in ordinary feed 

 lots, than in the feed lots of experiment stations. 



When hogs are following corn-fed steers, supplemental feeds 



