Value of Various Feeding Stuffs for Pigs. 



581 



*jy pigs following steers getting com meal, and 52 per cent, with 

 those following steers getting whole corn. 



These results are in conformity with the experience of stockmen, 

 who have learned that the droppings of meal-fed steers are not 

 as valuable as those from steers getting whole corn. (538) 



882. Gain from a bushel of corn. — In the table below are given 

 the results of a large number of feeding trials by Morrow, at the 

 Illinois Station, ' in which whole corn only was fed to pigs: 

 Besutts of feeding whole corn only to pigs — Illinois Station. 



* Omitted ftom averages. 

 The above shows that on an average the pigs gained about 1.1 

 pounds per day, and that a bushel of com weighing 56 pounds 

 produced 10.9 pounds of gain, live weight. The table shows a 

 wide range of returns — as low as 6.9 pounds of gain from a bushel 

 of corn in one case, while at the other extreme we have 16.8 

 pounds. This last return, for one week only, was with pigs which 

 had previously followed steers fed corn on blue-grass pasture. 

 While, then, the gains may range from 6 to 16 pounds, we may 

 conclude that 11 pounds of increase, live weight, is a satisfactory 

 return from a bushel of whole corn. (568, 812) 

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