16 BULLETIN 752, U. S: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
pounds or less for each 100 pounds of gain, and the grain consump- 
tion of the other half ranged from 313 to 334 pounds per 100 pounds 
of gain. The rate of gain varied from 0.33 pound per pig per day 
in lot 3, consisting of 12 pigs weighing 33 pounds each, fed a 2 per 
cent ration of barley, to 1.21 pounds per pig per day in lot 15, con- 
sisting of 64 pigs weighing 89 pounds each, fed a barley ration of 3.68 
per cent and having access to a large field of alfalfa. 
Taste [X.—Results secured with 15 lots of pigs on irrigated alfalfa pasture 
supplemented with barley on five reclamation projects in 1914, 1915, and 
1916. 
a |S 3 - ae |S. 
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Pigs. Location. Time. eae || |) ae eeteal cya iistes|cics ae | "el 
mb | 2 ae ° ° 2 Ss as Usenet) 
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EB S 2 | # | 6° [a8] 88 |8a| Bs 
Aa 14i< < Ble (ei aera om 
; IPE Ch Lbs. |Acres.|Days. Lbs. | Lbs. 
IBF tesoose= Scottsbluff ..| Summer, 1914-] 1.93 | 10 56 | 0.25 90 | 1,740 | 19 | 0.48 | 3,114 243 
Oot sesseee |peeee doe Spring, 1915...} 2.00 | 5 108 -20 60 | 1,180 | 20 | 1 2, 758 272 
ILO A SecHe Lol lees dose Summer, 1915.} 2.00 | 12 33 | .25 90 | 1,592 | 18 | .33 | 2,388 214 
Lots 2’and!3|___.- doses Allisieas'om, [2:00 25s|seae=— S208) SOU P2025 S130) ee 243 
1915. [ 
HAOG A Sete le GMseseise Spring, 1916_..| 2.52 | 19 dikaaeal: 60 963 | 16 . 84 | 1,937 300 
OLS ESEeee |S aee 2 donee: Summer, 1916.| 2.50 | 40 30} 1 97 | 1,738 | 18 -45 | 2,060 280 
Lots4and 5|_...- doe 28 AVsieasionn| 25510 2 eae 1 157 | 2701) U8 eeeaaleeeeeee 292 
1916. 
ILO Bssesece Umatilla....| Spring, 1914...]2.00] 4] 94] .25| 1351/1,768]13{ .81|2,196| 327 
Hotie-e eS doses es: Summer, 1914_} 2.00 | 4 90 220 55 §24 | 10} .61 | 1,682 334 
Lots6and7|-...-- Go-eeeee AUlisielasiomls|/-2500) |_ -ealbeeee= 20) |) LOOK C2202) 12s Sees lee 329 
1914. : ; 
Lot 8.......| Truckee-Car-) Allseason,1915| 2.00 | 10 39%|/ 225 125, | 1,912 | 15 .37 | 2,516 313 
son. 
ILO @oessgoee eee donee Spring, 1916...; 2.00] 17; 37] .50; 84]|1,336/16| .47 | 1.926; 230 
OOM ioe dole aee Summer, 1916_| 2.00 | 10 87 50 32 484 | 15 70 | 1,986 250 
A Otsiieer S528 do 23223 Fall, 1916..._.| 2.00] 6 85 50 14 110} 8 67 | 1,075 260 
Ios G), WO} ee S-- dose All season, | 2.00 2 | BE 50 P3OR L930) bs ees | aa 236 
and 11. 1916. 
IBGE IPSS Bales OGWasteds Spring and | 2.00 | 10 26} .25 | 138 | 2:552) 181] .46 | 29324 246 
summer,1916. 
ILO IGS seelleseks dos ane Fall, 1916... .-| 2-00] 6 94) .25 14 236 | 17 |. .69 | 2,382 140 
Lots 12and |..... domerrer AIESlelaysiOmen|(5200)|- ya eee SP | TBP PATS WI Ss se so0.4 - 237 
13: 1916. 
iia lesa Yuma....... Summer, 1917. 2.00/12] 38| .75| 98| 878| 9| .56|1,075| 324 
ILO Wee 25 - North Platte] Summer, 1915.) 3.68 | 64 89 | FE x- Sou | eee Sen oll the 1 ee ere 329 
project. cess. 
PASTURING ALFALFA SUPPLEMENTED WITH MILO. 
Data are available from 3 tests in which a 2 per cent ration of 
cracked milo was used to supplement alfalfa pasture at the Yuma 
Experiment Farm. The same general methods of pasturing were 
practiced as in the pasturing experiments at the other experiment 
farms, as discussed above. The results secured are summarized in 
Table X. 
