86 4 

 HOGS 



Each lot contained ten hogs. They were of excellent quality 

 and averaged approximately 130 pounds per head at the time the 

 experiment started. All lots of hogs received corn in addition to 

 droppings from the cattle. The amount of corn fed depended on the 

 appetites of the hogs. Five hogs in each of three lots of cattle (i, 2, 

 and 4) were fed a small quantity of shorts and tankage in addition 

 to the corn and droppings. 



METHOD OF STARTING CATTLE ON FEED 



The cattle had been accustomed to silage, cottonseed meal and 

 corn before they arrived at Purdue Farm. Quarantine measures had 

 made it necessary to keep the cattle on pasture after grass was too 

 short to make satisfactory feed. The cattle were, therefore, fed 

 silage in such quantities as they would eat, about two pounds of 

 cottonseed meal daily per head, and a small quantity of corn. On 

 their arrival at the feed lots at Purdue, they were continued on the 

 same feed and all the hay they would eat until they had been divided 

 into lots for experiment. The silage in Lots 2 and 3 was then 

 dropped and the hay in Lot i changed to oat straw. The first daily 

 ration after the experiment started consisted of all the roughage the 

 cattle would consume, eight pounds of corn and, except in Lots i 

 and 6 which were fed ground soybeans and molasses feed respec- 

 tively, 2.4 pounds of cottonseed meal daily per head. The cottonseed 

 meal and ground soybeans at the end of ten days were put on the 

 basis of 2.5 pounds daily per 1000 pounds live weight of the cattle. 

 Corn fed was gradually increased until at the end of forty days the 

 cattle were receiving all the grain they would readily consume. In 

 Lot 5, feeding molasses (cane) was gradually added to the ration 

 until at the end of twenty days, three pounds of molasses were being 

 fed daily per head. The quantity of corn fed in Lot 5 was there- 

 after three pounds daily per steer less than in Lot 4. In Lot 6, 

 molasses feed was used instead of cottonseed meal. It was started 

 at the rate of 2.4 pounds daily per head. At the end of ten days it 

 had been raised to three pounds daily per head, and at twenty days 

 to five pounds and at the end of thirty-three days to six pounds daily 

 per head at which amount it remained during the remainder of the 

 trial. 



