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Station compared rape with alfalfa for pigs averaging 52 
pounds at the conmencement of the experiment. Ten pigs 
were used in each lot. Following are daily gains per head 
and pounds of grain consumed per 100 pounds of gain: 
Daily Grain consumed per 
gain. 100 pounds gain. 
Lot 1. No pasture ............ 1.04 pounds 371 pounds 
Lot 2. Rape pasture .......... 1.09 pounds 301 pounds 
Lot 3. Alfalfa pasture ........ 1.10 pounds 200 pounds 
Aun acre of rape was required for ten pigs, but half an 
acre of alfalfa was sufficient for the same number. 
An acre of rape pasture produced 202 pounds of pork, and 
an acre of alfalfa pasture produced 408 pounds of pork. 
“ This experiment emphasizes the superior value of alfalfa, 
and likewise emphasizes the value of dwarf Essex rape, which 
can be seeded in the feed-lots that would otherwise go to 
waste or grow up to weeds, and be made to pay a handsome 
profit on the investment.” 
Rape for Pasture.—At the Wisconsin Experiment Station, 
Craig conducted two experiments with hogs on rape. In the 
first experiment, 10 hogs, about eight months old, were pastured 
on one-third of an acre of rape for 76 days, and fed corn and 
shorts in addition. Another lot was fed in a pen on corn and 
shorts only. In the second experiment, 19 hogs were pastured 
seven weeks on six-tenths of an acre of rape, as compared 
with a similar lot in pens on grain only. 
In the first trial one-third of an acre of rape was equivalent 
to 1062 pounds of grain, and in the second trial six-tenths of 
an acre of rape was equivalent to 1330.2 pounds of grain. 
Therefore, in one case an acre of rape was equivalent to 3186 
pounds of grain, and in the other to 2217 pounds of grain. 
Later, Carlyle, of the same institution, repeated the work, 
