DRY-LAND PASTURE CROPS FOR HOGS. 19 
The average for the five years from 1916 to 1920, inclusive, was 10.2 
hogs per acre on peas from July 2 to July 19, a total of 17 days. At 
the beginning of this period the total weight averaged 1,346 pounds. 
An average increase in weight of 179 pounds was obtained. This 
was at the rate of 1.18 pounds per day for each pig. The supple- 
mentary corn ration averaged 473 pounds, or 2.83 pounds of corn 
for a pound of gain. 
The check plat of peas yielded nothing in 1919, because of drought, 
and the crop was killed out by hailin 1921. The average yield of the 
pe from 1916 to 1920, including the zero yield of 1919, was 4.2 
ushels per acre. 
At no time did the 1 acre of peas furnish sufficient forage to carry 
we 10 pigs from the period ot best grazing on the rye to that on 
arley. 2 
Beardless barley (Success variety) has been pastured every year 
since 1916 with the exception of 1919, when the crop was killed by 
drought. The results are presented in Table 3. 
TABLE 3.—Results obtained by pasturing 1 acre of barley with fall pigs at Huntley, Mont., 
each year from 1916 to 1921, exclusive of 1919. 
Weights of animals and feed (pounds). 
Pasture period. Ben 
Num- Hog weights. ae Cy-Con "| yaeld of 
Year ber SEES check 
vi b aie 
| 
one Daily Per ceashet) 
Date on. | Date off. |Days.| Initial.) Final. | Gain. Der Total. peers 
4s pig 
NOIGH eee 2s 210 | July 20| Aug. 7 18 | 1,780; 1,766 | —14; —0.08 462 Ves ten ss 9.7 
NO eS aces 6 | Aug. 8 | Aug. 22 14 915 975 | 60 71 777 | 12.95 16.2 
ein ckhalerese 10 | July 9} July 23 14, 1,420] 1,420; 0 0 TAD eer ats 3.0 
12021... 15 | July 30-| Aug. 10), 11.)02,044| 2,179 | 135 | 82] 2721 “201 |) 2 5.7 
1921 4....... 10 | July 14| July 28; 14| 1,548! 1,569) 21 15 305 | 14.52 6.4 
Average, | 
5 years.| 10.2] July 22] Aug. 5| 14 1,541 | 1,582 | 40 35 392" [sete 8.2 
1 Weight of grain from the check plat. 
2 The weight of one of these pigs was calculated as was done for the rye pasture (Table 1). 
3 The crop dried up before the pasture season, and no hogs were put on the plat. 
4 Hogs were moved from therye plat directly to the barley plat because of the destruction of the pea 
plat by hail. 
The pasture period averaged from July 22 to August 5, a total of 
14 days, for an average of 10.2 pigs. The average initial weight of 
these pigs was 1,541 pounds, and the gains made averaged 40 pounds. 
The daily gain per pig each year averaged 0.35 pound. 
The low gains were due chiefly to low yields of grain and the un- 
palatability of the forage. 
Barley on the check plat averaged 8.2 bushels per acre for the five 
years when a crop was prasucad. 
Using the yield of barley that might have been harvested as a basis 
of calculation, it required from 2.01 pounds of barley in 1920 to 14.5 
pounds in 1921 to make a pound of gain. In 1916 there was a loss 
in weight on the barley pasture, and in 1918 no gains were made. 
No corn was produced in either 1919 or 1921. With these excep- 
tions corn has been pastured each year. For reasons stated above, 
the returns for 1915 have not been included in the assembled data 
