SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDS WITH CORN 



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On alfalfa pasture. 



Feed for 

 100 pounds gain 



Cost. 



In dry lot. 



Feed for 

 100 pounds gain. 



Cost. 



Corn meal alone 



Corn 75 per cent, shorts 25 



per cent 



Corn 25 per cent, skim milk 



75 per cent 



Corn 90 per cent, tankage 10 



per cent 



Corn 90 per cent, ground bone 



10 per cent 



lbs. 

 343 



336 



249* I 

 704t) 



322 

 336 



$2.38 

 12.64 

 $3.19 



$2.72 

 $2.62 



lbs. 

 543 



533 



f 385*1 

 1 10631 J 



487 

 533 



$3.88 

 $4.18 

 $4.87 

 $4.10 

 $4.17 



* Corn. 



t Skim-milk. 



In computing the cost, com was valued at 40 cents per 

 bushel, shorts at $20.00 per ton, skim-milk at 20 cents per 

 hundred pounds, tankage at $40.00 per ton, and ground bone 

 at $30.00 per ton. 



Results. — It will be noted that while the hogs were upon 

 alfalfa pasture the amount of com required for 100 pounds 

 of gain, with the lot fed com meal alone, compares very 

 favorably with the other groups ; but when the hogs were put 

 into dry lots the feed for 100 pounds gain in the com group 

 is much higher than in the tankage group. The same is true 

 of the com and shorts group as compared with the corn and 

 tankage group, so that here we find the same result as was 

 found in the Iowa experiments. 



If the same values for feeds were used in the Nebraska 

 experiments as were used in the Iowa experiments, the sup- 

 plementary feeds would make a better showing. 



It must also be remembered that in Nebraska the hogs 

 were kept upon alfalfa pasture until they were well grown, and, 

 in consequence, were in the best possible shape to stand ex- 

 clusive com feeding in the dry lots. 



