L06 
1M RE \i OF ANIMAL [NDU8TRY. 
i, xmnd cowpeas and corn meal compared with corn meal, — Ai the 
Alabama Station Duggar fed ( wo Lots of pigs to compare the relative 
value of a ration of half corn meal and half ground pease with an 
exclusive corn-meal ration. The piga used were placed in covered 
pens, with small yards ad joining, and, after a preliminary period of a 
week, put into the experiment which lasted sixty days. The results 
are as follow - : 
Ground cowpi as and corn m al compan d with corn m< alfor j*. 
Ration. 
Oronnd corn alone 
Corn i, cowpeas i.. 
days 
Found*. 
H 
108 
go 
60 
LOO 
eaten. ]*>unds 
Pounds, 
1 '<>u mis. 
908 
In this experiment the cowpea and corn-meal ration made gau 
percent more economical than, corn alone. The quality of the pork 
made was as good as that of corn-fed pork. 
P anuts compan d with corn meal. — Duggar a placed in pens the pigs 
used t" compare the values of peanut pasture and corn meal (see 
j). L60) to make a more accurate study of the nutritive values of 
Spanish peanuts and corn meal The lots received the same rations, 
except that the peanuts were dry and fed unhulled. The test lasted 
six weeks with the following results: 
Peanut 8 compared with corn meal for pigs. 
Ration. 
Peanuts I, corn meal i 
Peannts only 
Corn meal only 
Num- 
ber of 
pigs. 
Num- 
ber of 
days 
fed. 
Total 
gain. 
wf" 
dailv 
gain. 
Pounds. Pound. 
M 0.91 
.47 
.10 
pounds 
gain. 
This experiment shows the best daily gains from the combination of 
peanuts and corn meal, and shows the best returns for lVcd eaten by 
the pigs on peanuts alone. This Lot made verymuch better gains 
than the pigs fed exclusively on corn meal, which \'vd verypoorly. 
The pigs on peanuts alone made a gain of 9 pounds per bushel of pea- 
nuts. "This gives a value of 27 cents to a bushel of Spanish peanuts 
when pork is worth 3 cents per pound gross, and 31-J cents when pork 
is worth :;■. cents per pound." The unthrifty appearance of the 
fed on corn meal only was commented upon 
At the South Carolina Station, New man and Pickett ' \'vd two lots of 
grade Berkshire and Duroc Jersey pigs, from eight to eleven months 
old, in pens, to study the relative values of peanuts and corn. On land 
of similar character they estimated the corn yield at L5 bushels per acre 
and peanuts '■' ,| bushels, and in their investigations they found that, 
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