140 RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN SWINE FEEDING 
Indiana.—(‘irenlar 12 of the Indiana Experiment Station 
gives a stunmary of nine liundred 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 fecd cattle unless 
hogs follow. The average number of hogs per steer was 
1.3, 
unless additional feed is supplied the hogs. Indiana experi- 
ments indicate that the waste will not support more than one 
which is regarded as high by the authors of the bulletin, 
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. 
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, 
Towa, 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, 114 hogs per steer; shelled corn, 1 to 1% hogs per steer; 
crushed or ground corn, 14; to 44 hog per stecr.” 
When steers are given feeds rich in protein in addition to 
corn, such as clover, alfalfa, or cuw-pea hay, or concentrates 
such ag linseed meal, a small allowance of cottonseed meal, etc., 
hogs make better gains than when feeds poor in protein are fed 
to the steers with corn. In summer feeding, access to a pasture 
will take the place of other supplemental feeds, clover and 
alfalfa being especially beneficial. 
Feed Required for Maintenance.— Investigations at the Wis- 
consin Station indicate that a pig can be maintained for one 
day (neither gaining nor losing in weight) on about one pet 
