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gain of 380.7 pounds in six weeks on an area of about one-sixth acre 
and ate 373 pounds of corn. Estimating corn at 40 cents per bushel 
and pork at 3 cents per pound this is a return of $18.34 per acre for 
peanuts from this method of feeding, somewhat less than the Arkansas 
experiment previously mentioned. 
On a portion of the field which was not pastured the peanuts were 
dug and yielded at the rate of 62. G bushels (1,5G5 pounds) of dry nuts 
per acre. From this the total feed required to produce 100 pounds 
gain was estimated as 140 pounds of peanuts and 100 pounds of 
corn — a total of 330 pounds of concentrates, with vines eaten not 
estimated. 
Duggar estimates the value of the return from peanuts in pork at 
$18 per acre, and states that the same land with the same fertilizers, 
would not produce over 200 pounds of lint cotton per acre, which 
would be worth 810 or 812, with cotton at 5 or 6 cents per pound, while 
the expense of cultivating the cotton would be much greater. 
In a later experiment Duggar a penned a litter of 9-weeks-old pigs 
on a two-thirds stand of Spanish peanuts just after weaning. They 
were on this pasture from November 4 to December 23, and ate 162 
pounds of corn meal for 100 pounds gain in addition to grazing about 
five-sixths of an acre of peanuts. At 4 cents per pound for pork, 
and making allowances for the grain eaten, the return per acre for 
the peanuts was $10.04. 
In another test a a sow and her litter of 9 pigs were fed from Sep- 
tember 30 to November 4 on corn meal, skim milk, and Spanish pea- 
nuts from one-fourth acre of land. They ate 355 pounds of corn meal 
and 921 pounds of skim milk. The sow and pigs gained a total of 
236 pounds. At 4 cents per pound for pork, valuing corn meal at $1 
per 100 pounds and skim milk at 25 cents per 100 pounds and esti- 
mating 325 pounds of skim milk to be worth 100 pounds corn meal, 
the return per acre for the peanuts was $17.28. 
In another test a 7 shoats, averaging nearly 100 pounds, were penned 
on Spanish peanuts from October 11 to November 2 and fed some corn 
meal. They made a total gain of 225 pounds, eating 286 pounds of 
corn meal and grazing the peanuts on 0.47 acre, requiring only 127 
pounds of corn meal for 100 pounds gain. With the usual allow- 
ances, the return per acre for the peanuts in this test was $18.02. 
In another test a 7 shoats were taken from corn meal, cowpea meal, 
and sorghum and placed on Spanish peanuts and corn meal for four 
weeks. They ate 333 pounds of corn meal and grazed 10,593 square 
feet of peanuts, making a gain of 121 pounds, which was at a cost of 
273 pounds grain for 100 pounds gain. The value per acre of the 
peanut pasture was estimated, by the usual method, at $9. 
Some of these pigs were continued by hurdling on peanut pasture 
and were given some grain in addition for five weeks longer. In this 
period the return per acre for the peanuts was estimated at $9.88. 
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