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grain ration of 1 pound per head at the beginning, which was increased 
to 5 pounds at the close. At the Alabama Station, Duggar a hurdled 
pigs, which had been weaned three weeks, on rape drilled on sandy 
upland the previous October. They received about a half ration of 
corn meal in addition. 
The results are as follows: 
Pasturing on rape. 
Where fed. 
Num- 
ber of 
pigs. 
Total 
weight 
at begin- 
ning. 
Total 
gain. 
Num- 
ber of 
days 
fed. 
Average 
daily 
gain. 
Grain 
eaten. 
Grain 
p...' ]IHI 
pounds 
gain. 
Utah 
6 
6 
4 
Pounds. 
296 
358 
130 
Pounds. 
60 
869 
181 
49 
114 
81 
Pounds. 
0.204 
1.27 
.56 
Pounds. 
294 
2,067 
524 
Pounds. 
490 
Canada 
238 
290 
At the close of the Alabama test, the pigs were placed on second- 
growth rape for three weeks. They grazed one-sixth acre, eating 168 
pounds corn meal and making a gain of 82 pounds, which was an 
average daily gain of 0. 98 pound, at a cost of 205 pounds meal for 
100 pounds gain. Assuming that 500 pounds of grain alone are 
required for 100 pounds gain, Duggar" estimates the amount of the 
pork produced per acre from the first and second growth rape 
together at 512 pounds, worth at that time $20.48. 
Seven shoats, averaging 41 pounds in weight, were on rape at the 
same station for four weeks during the late spring. The} T received 
some corn meal in addition. During the first two weeks the rape was 
fed to the pigs in the pens; during the remainder of the time they 
were hurdled. They ate 318 pounds of corn meal. The total gain in 
weight for the four weeks was 103 pounds, an average daily gain of 
0.53 pound, 310 pounds of grain and 4,050 square feet of rape being 
required to produce 100 pounds of gain. 
Rape compared tvith clover. — The Wisconsin Station 6 has reported 
two experiments comparing rape and clover as pasturage for hogs. 
In the first, 20 purebred or high-grade Poland China pigs between five 
and six months of age were used. Lot I was hurdled on rape, had 
access to water, and had the run of a blue-grass lot. Their grain feed 
was a mixture of 2 parts of corn meal and 1 part shorts twice daily 
as slop. Lot II was on a 10-acre lot of second-growth clover, and 
received the same grain ration as Lot I. In the second experiment 
the pigs used were purebred and high-grade Berkshires and Poland 
Chinas. Their grain ration was the same mixture as that used in 
the first experiment, mixed into a thick slop. Lot I was hurdled on 
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