uu 
1:1 Kl \i OF \NIM \l. [NDUSTE'J . 
Raw pumpkins alone. — Burkett* fed <>ne lot of ln^s on a ration <»r 
uncooked pumpkins \n it 1 1 no other feed i mi skim milk with the fol- 
lowing results : 
number 
8 
Pumpkins pounds 
A\ i ragi weight 
at begin- 
Milk per 100 pounds gain d< i 
ning 
pounds 
i n 
Pumpkins per LOO pounds 
Total gain 
do ... 
S4 
^ain pounds 1,530 
Days fed. 
Dumber 
26 
Cos! of feed per LOO pounds 
Average daily gain 
pounds 
1.19 
gain dollars 2.89 
Milk consumed 
do 
680 
Feeding pumpkins and apples. At the sane time with tin* test 
outlined in the preceding paragraph, Burketl fed a l<»i of 3 pigson a 
ration of apples an<l pumpkins, half and half, cooked. The pumpkins 
in all the New Hampshire experiments were raised at a cost of 40 
cents per ton; tin- apples were common cider apples, or windfalls, 
ami were valued ai L0 cents per bushel/ The results are as follows: 
Pigs number 
Average weight at beginning, 
pounds L40 
Total gain pounds 116 
Days fed number 25 
Average daily gain pounds L.54 
Milk consumed do 680 
'A Pumpkins and apples pounds 
Milk per 100 pounds gain do 545 
Pumpkins and apples LOO pounds 
gain . pounds 8,848 
Oosl of feed 100 pounds gain, dol- 
lars L65 
The higher cost of gain in this tost is attributed to the apples, and 
it is questioned whether it pays to feed them at a cost equal to or 
exceeding L0 cents per bushel. 
BOOTS AND TUBERS. 
Feeding roots t<> live stock is comparatively recent in the United 
Mate>. Corn, wiih hay and ensilage, has been the principal mainte- 
nance during the winter months when pasture was not available. In 
hog feeding ii is safe to say that, until very recent years, almost the 
only substitutes for past are wore pumpkins, artichokes, and clover <>r 
alfalfa hay in certain sections. In England and Canada, however, 
much depends nee is placed on roots, and. while we may never reach 
the point in this country generally of fattening animals almost 
entirely on a root diet, the peculiar advantages to be gained by them, 
their great palatability, and the good effect on the health and thrift 
of the animal commend roots i<» the stockman. 
A number of experiments have been reported recently on feeding 
roots i«> h< 
At the Indiana Station, Plumb and Van Norman' conducted two 
experiments to compare a ration composed solely of grain with one 
r,ul. X... r.f,. New Hampshire Bxpt. Sta. 
N- iw Hampshire has no Legal weight per bushel for apples, and this bulletin 
did not state the weight used. The legal weight in other States varies from Jt to 
50 ] ion nds. 
Buls. X'-. :'.' and 82, 
