140 RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN SWINE FEEDING 



Indiana. — Circular 12 of the Indiana Experiment Station 

 gives a summary of nine hundred 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 feed cattle unless 

 hogs follow. The average number of hogs per steer was 

 1.5, which is regarded as high by the authors of the bulletin, 

 unless additional feed is supplied the hogs. Indiana experi- 

 ments indicate that the waste will not support more than one 

 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, 

 Iowa, 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 com, 2 to 3 hogs per steer; ear 

 com, 1% liogs per steer; shelled com, 1 to 1% hogs per steer; 

 crushed or ground com, % to 1/2 hog per steer." 



When steers are given feeds rich in protein in addition to 

 corn, such as clover, alfalfa, or cow-pea hay, or concentrates 

 such as 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 



