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months old. The older pigs that had been highly fed and had always 
been kepi in a pen evidently had lost their rustling ability and did 
no! thrive so well on cowpeas. 
PUMPKINS AND APPLES. 
Feeding pumpkins ran- and cooked. — At Ottawa, Grisdale fed 
pumpkins to pigs in considerable numbers. A field was specially pre- 
pared, the seed being planted in hills 8 feci apart each way. The 
yield was about 9 tons per aero and the cost 90 cents per ton. In feed- 
ing one lot received raw pumpkins and grain (a meal mixture of one- 
half corn meal and one-half a mixture of equal parts of oats, peas, and 
barley). The other lot received cooked pumpkins and the same meal 
mixture. 
At the Oregon Station, French* took 6 Berkshires, eight months old, 
from a stubble field where they had been for six weeks and placed 
them on a ration of pumpkins and shorts. The pumpkins were the 
common yellow field variety, and were prepared by cutting up, remov- 
ing the seed, and cooking or steaming, after which shorts were mixed 
with them. 
At the New Hampshire Station, Burkett c fed pigs to compare cooked 
and raw pumpkins. Lot I, consisting of 3 pigs, received skim milk, 
corn meal, and cooked pumpkins; Lot II, consisting of 3 pigs, received 
milk, corn meal, and raw pumpkins. The following table shows the 
result of these experiments: 
Value of pumpkins as feed for pigs. 
Ration. 
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630 1,348 302 
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Averaging these results, the raw pumpkins rations show 273 pounds 
of grain and 37G pounds of pumpkins for each 100 pounds of gain, 
and the cooked pumpkins rations, 222 pounds of grain and 1,150 
pounds of pumpkins for each 100 pounds of gain. 
An. Rpt. , 1900, Central Experimental Farm. b Bui. No. 54. c Bui. No. 66. 
