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lasted forty-six days, excepl for the soy beans, which gaveoul sooner 
than expected. The results were as follows: 
Peanuts, chufas, and *<>// beans compared with corn. 
Kind «>f feed. 
Peanuts . . 
Chufas . . . 
Soy beans 
Corn 
beHf Wf »« hi Total 
1 at begin- gain. 
ning. 
pigs. 
Pound*. Pounds. 
116.5 104.5 
121.3 66 
124.75 
139 112.3 
Average 
daily 
gain. 
Pound. 
0.57 
.85 
o.24 
.81 
a Thirty-two days. 
The areas of peanuts and chufas grazed were one-twelfth acre and 
one-ninth acre, respectively. To produce 112.3 pounds of pork with 
the corn-fed lot 7.6 bushels of corn were eaten. From these data the 
yield of pork per acre was estimated as follows : a Peanuts, 1,252 
pounds; chufas, 592 pounds; corn, 436 pounds, estimating the corn 
yield at 30 bushels per acre. 
The quality of the pork from pigs grazed on chufas and soy beans 
was about the same as that from corn-fed pigs; the peanut-fed lot 
produced a soft, oily quality of fat, but no deleterious results could 
be detected in cooking. 
In the following two years Bennett b grazed pigs on peanuts and 
chufas, the results being noted below. In addition to the study of 
the feeding value of these plants, their effect on the quality of the 
pork was studied. When hogs are grazed on peanuts or chufas the 
lard has quite a low melting point; and, as nearly all such feeding is 
conducted in the Southern States, this condition gives rise to consider- 
able trouble during the summer months. To obviate this difficulty the 
common practice of farmers is to use corn in finishing hogs that have 
had peanuts as the principal component of the ration. The results 
of the study of the effects of these feeds on the quality of pork are 
presented elsewhere in this bulletin. 
Bennett's feeding results in 1899 and 1900 follow : 
In 1899 Lot I grazed a crop that was alternately three rows of 
peanuts and one of chufas; Lot II grazed peanuts; Lot III grazed 
chufas; Lot TV grazed chufas; Lot V grazed as Lot I. The grazing 
lasted sixty days, except for Lots TV and V, which grazed ninety days. 
Lots III, IY, and Y had no finishing period on corn. Two pigs were 
slaughtered in both of the first two lots at the expiration of the graz- 
ing period, the melting point of the fat determined, and the remaining 
pigs put on a full feed of corn. At intervals of two weeks 2 more 
a Soy beans not estimated. 
b Bui. No. 65, Arkansas Expt. Sta. 
