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dry Kafir corn meal in the proportion of 1:7. The following table 
shows the effecl of these rations in greater detail. The best results 
seem to come from the use of hay in the proportion of from one- 
seventh to one-fourth of the ration when hay makes up all the 
roughage: 
Utitio of hay t<> grain in feeding hogs. 
Ratio of hay to grain. 
Average 
daily 
gain. 
■ I per LOO 
pounds tfain. 
(Jrain 
saved. 
Grain. Hay. 
Kansas: 
L2.5 
I'oii nils. 
0.88 
1.37 
1.37 
1.44 
1.32 
1.19 
1.19 
Pounds. Pounds. 
214 
501 131 
516 12:3 
515 72. 4 
538 78. 7 
486 (57 
455 41.7 
I'd" il'ls. 
1.8 
1:4 
139 
w 
137 
" 
234 
1-7 
211 
Montana: 
1:7 
46 
Utah: 
1:11 
9 
Feeding alfalfa hay alone. — There is very little experimental work 
work on this phase of the subject. The opinions of experimenters 
and of stockmen generally seem to be that whenever hay alone is 
resorted to it is no better than a maintenance ration. In the alfalfa- 
growing districts hogs are frequently run through the winter at the 
haystacks owing to the scarcity and expense of a grain ration. At 
the Nevada Station, McDowell fed two lots of 2 pigs each on a 
ration of alfalfa hay. The two lots ate in twenty-one days 99.12 
pounds and 99.14 pounds, respectively, and lost in weight 33.25 
pounds and 51 pounds, respectively, an average daily loss of 0.79 
pound and 1.21 pounds, respectively. "While feeding hay alone 
the pigs spent much time curled up in the bedding, but when about 
the stalls were restless, and even in eating it was done in a ravenous 
way unlike that of a hearty, well-fed pig." After the hay-feeding 
period both lots were given grain and roots and made satisfactory 
gains. 
Sugar beets compared with alfalfa hay. — The Utah Station. 6 con- 
ducted three experiments, which give valuable data on the relative 
feeding value of sugar beets and alfalfa as winter roughage. In the 
first experiment Lot I had all the alfalfa hay they would eat and 2 
pounds of corn meal per head daily. Lot II received all the beets 
they would eat and 2 pounds of bran per head daily. 
In the second experiment Lot I had all the alfalfa hay they would 
eat and 2 pounds of bran per head daily; Lot II had all the alfalfa 
hay the}' would eat and 3 pounds of bran per head daily; Lot III had 
all the sugar beets they would eat and 2 pounds of bran per head 
« Bui. No. 40. 
l> Bui. No. 70. 
