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These results are not verj satisfactory for grazing on sorghum or 
on oowpeas without a supplementary grain ration. The waste of feed 
in the eowpea lot was \ ery great, large numbers of the ripe pease fall- 
ing i'» the ground and sprouting. Previous worlj at the Alabama 
Station has shown more satisfactory results when grain was fed in con- 
junct Ion wit Ii i he eowpea past are. 
Duggar notes another < tperimenl with sorghum grazing, In which 
there was a large waste of feed, although grain was fed. Seven shoats 
were »(ii the sorghum from June 24 to September 2, L899, and received 
at the same time about L-J pounds per bead daily of a mixture of equal 
parts, by weight, of eowpea meal and corn meal The piu r > grazed 
1.5,374 square feet of sorghum and 8,380 square feet of second-growth 
sorghum; They ate 812 pounds of grain, or •'; , '< 11 pounds of grain per 
100 pounds of gain. Making allowances for the value of the grain 
fed, ilic I'd urn per acre of sorghum, with pork at I cents per pound, 
was estimated at 17.80. The second-growth sorghum produced only 
about one-half as much feed a> the first growth. Large quantities of 
the sorghum were trampled under foot, and when some of it was cut 
and carried to the pigs a given area Lasted much Longer than when 
they were turned in to graze. Duggar suggests that when labor is 
cheap and abundant or a corn harvester is available soiling sorghum 
will l»e the more profitable method <>f feeding. 
Coivpea pastu/rt with corn. — Duggar 6 fed 6 Esses shoats from the 
same litter to invest Lgate the pasture value of cowpeas. Lot I received 
corn only. Lot II was hurdled on cowpeas that were about half 
matured at the beginning of the experiment. The field tested L3.2 
bushels per acre of peas, on an anpastured portion. Both Lots 
received hard-wood ashes and salt. The results were as follows 
< low 
d corn compart d 
with corn aloru . 
Kind of feed. 
Nun'.- Average T , 
*»?<* weight at Tog 
pigs, beginning. *~ 
Num- 
ber of 
daily 
Corn l<»> 
eatei 
Corn alone 
8 
8 
Pounds. P<»i wis. 
12 
Pound. 
i pasture and corn. .. 
The pigs were pastured on an area of 7,280 square feet, or about 
one-sixth of an acre. Valuing pork ai 3 cents per pound and corn at 
40 cents per bushel, the return for cowpeas per acre is $10.65, not 
Including the value of the manure made. By pasturing, 277 pounds 
of corn were va\ ed per LOO pounds gain, and therefore an acre of cow- 
peas would replace 1,662 pounds of corn, using this test as a basis. 
The Maryland station fed a number of pigs on eowpea pasture 
and concluded that cowpeas are well adapted bo pigs about three 
Bnl NO. 132, Alabama Expt. Sta. 
Bui. No. 98, Alabama Expt Sta. BnL 
