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pounds of grain for 100 pounds of gain. Hogs fed a half 
ration of grain, gained .98 pound per hog per day, and re- 
quired 291 pounds of grain for 100 pounds of gain. Thus, 
it will be seen that the hogs fed a full ration on pasture made 
more rapid gains, but consumed much more grain for every 
100 pounds of gain. 
The Ontario Agricultural College fed two lots of pigs five 
weeks on clover and ten weeks on rape. One lot received a 
full meal ration and the other a two-thirds meal ration. As 
in the Montana experiments, the hogs fed a full meal ration 
made more rapid gains than the others, but they consumed 
421 pounds of meal for 100 pounds of gain, as compared with 
353 pounds meal for 100 pounds gain in the lot fed the two- 
thirds ration. 
It seems to be clearly demonstrated that it is a mistake to 
feed hogs all the meal they will eat when upon pasture, unless 
it becomes necessary to do so near the end of the feeding period 
in order to fit them for market. (See also Missouri recom- 
mendations quoted in this chapter. ) 
Methods of Feeding Alfalfa—Bulletin 123 of the 
Nebraska Experiment Station reports a series of winter tests 
with varying proportions of corn and alfalfa. The tests covered 
three years, and they appear to have been carefully conducted. 
The rations tested were as follows: 
Corn alone. 
Corn and alfalfa hay in a rack. 
9 parts corn and 1 part chopped alfalfa. 
9 parts corn and 1 part alfalfa meal. 
3 parts corn and 1 part chopped alfalfa. 
3 parts corn and 1 part alfalfa meal. 
1 part corn and 1 part chopped alfalfa. 
1 part corn and 1 part alfalfa meal. 
Summary of Results.—(1) The gains made by the rations 
containing one-half alfalfa were much slower and more ex- 
