530 



Feeds and Feeding. 



Lot II, receiving ground soybeans and corn meal, made slightly 

 larger and more economical gains than Lot I, fed linseed meal and 

 corn meal. This shows that home-grown soybeans are fully equal to 

 linseed meal as a supplement to corn meal in fattening pigs. At the 

 Wisconsin Station^ Humphrey found ground soybeans 10 per ct. 

 superior to wheat middlings for feeding with corn meal to fattening 

 pigs, but the pork was less firm and the grain of the meat and the 

 distribution of fat and lean less satisfactory. (201) 



869. Cowpeas. — Duggar of the Alabama Station- and Newman 

 and Pickett of the South Carolina Station^ compared cowpeas and 

 corn for pig feeding with the results which follow: 



Cowpeas and corn compared. 



Station and average ration 



Alabama Station 

 Lot I, Corn, 2.5 lbs 



Lot II, Cowpeas, 2.8 lbs. 



Lot III, Corn, 1,4 lbs. Cowpeas, 1.4 lbs. 

 Alabama Station 



Lot I, Corn, 3.5 lbs. 



Lot II, Corn, 1. 7 lbs. Cowpeas, 1. 9 lbs. 

 South Carolina Station 



Lot I, Corn, 9.2 lbs 



Lot 17, Ground cowpeas, 6. 7 lbs. 



Av. wt. at 

 beginning 



Lbs. 



58 

 60 

 62 



156 

 160 



Av. daily 

 gain 



Lbs. 



0.5 

 0.6 

 0.6 



0.7 

 0.9 



1.4 

 1.1 



Feed for 100 ] 

 gain 



Lbs. 



487 

 481 

 433 



478 

 395 



602 

 491 



In the Alabama trials cowpeas and corn were practically equal in 

 feeding value when fed separately, but a mixture of the two proved 

 more satisfactory than either alone. The South Carolina test was 

 decidedly in favor of the cowpeas. The great value and importance 

 of cowpeas and corn for pork production in the South is here made 

 plain. (206) 



870. Peanuts, — In a feeding trial with pigs at the Georgia Sta- 

 tion* Flint secured the following returns : 



274 lbs, com and shorts produced 56 lbs, gain. 



254 lbs, corn and 449 lbs. skim milk produced 76 lbs. gain. 



160 lbs. corn and I acre soybeans produced 56 lbs. gain. 



160 lbs, corn and ^ acre Spanish peanuts produced 71 lbs. gain. 



The soybeans and peanuts were pulled and carried to the pigs 

 daily. In ordinary practice the pigs would have done their outi 

 foraging. (202) 



Rpt. 1905. 



= Bills. 82, 143. 



Bill. 52. 



Bui. 87. 



