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In another test* a Litter of 7 Poland China pigs, averaging 28 
pounds in weight, were hurdled on Spanish peanuts just after wean- 
ing. The pasturing continued su weeks and no grain was fed. The 
total gain was L57 pounds, an average daily gain of 0.53 pound. The 
area grazed was L 3, 887 square feet, and the return per acre, with pork 
at i cents per pound, was $20. L2. 
Pea/nut pashm compared with corn meal. — The Alabama Station 
led one lot <>l' pigs OB B jn-anut field which was a poor Stand, giving 
some corn meal additional; another Lot had nothing inn the peanut 
past ore, and a third Lot porn meal only. There were 3 pigs in each lot, 
and they were of rather ordinary feeding qualities. In four weeks 
tli** lot on peanuts and corn meal gained 38.6 pounds, those on 
peanuts alone gained 21.1 pounds, and those on corn meal lost 5.1 
pounds. The lot on peanuts and corn meal ate 206 pounds of eorn 
per LOO pounds gain and grazed 2,025 square feet planted in peanuts. 
"This is at the rate of 840 pounds Of growth from 1 acre of pea- 
nuts (with less than half a stand) and 1,710 pounds (36.6 bushels) of 
corn meal. With pork at 3 cents per pound and corn meal at 40 
dents per bushel of 48 pounds, this is a gross return of $25.20 and a 
net return (alter subtracting the value of the meal) of $10.94 per 
acre of peanuts." 
The pigs on peanuts only "pastured an area of 3,517 square feet, 
and the gain made was 21.1 pounds, which is at the rate of 261 pounds 
of pork per acre. At 3 cents per pound gross for pork, this gives a 
value of $7.83 to the acre of peanuts on which there was only half a 
stand of plants." 
Duggar estimates the value of peanuts in pork production at si 2 to 
$20 per acre, the higher returns being made where corn meal supple- 
ments 1 he peanut past ure. 
Peanuts and chuf as compared with grain. — Duggar''' fed four lots 
of 3 pigs each for eighteen days to compare the values of peanut 
and chuf a pasture with grain alone. Lot I grazed Spanish peanuts 
and had a half ration of a mixture, by weight, of corn meal - parts 
and cowpea meal 1 part: Lol II grazed Spanish peanuts without grain ; 
Lot III grazed chuf as, with the same half grain ration as Lot 1: Lol IV 
was \\n\ in a hare lot and given all the mixture i'^\ Lot I that the pigs 
would eat up (dean. The following table shows the results: 
Peanut and chuf a pasturt compared with grain. 
i 
Average 
weighl at 
beginning. 
Spanish peanutc grased, one-half grain ration 
Spanish peanuts grased j 
Ohufas grased, one-half grain ration 
Pull grain ration 
Pound*. 
108 
181 
Number 
of pigs. 
Number 
Of <la\s 
fed. 
^ ani - gain! 
Pound*. 
Pound*. 
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BtlL No. 08, Alabama Expt. Sta. 
Mini. No. L22, Alabama Expt. Sta. 
