THE HOG INDUSTRY. 
101 
The following table shows the results: 
Barley compared with corn, with shorts <>r middlings for pigs. 
Ration. 
South Dakota: a 
Corn and shorts equal 
parts 
Barley and shorts 
equal parts 
Ontario Agricultural (_'< >1- 
lege: & 
Corn and middlings... 
Do 
Do 
Barley and middlings. 
Do 
Do 
Num- Num- 
ber of ber of 
test.; 
pigs. 
,\\ erage 
weight 
at be- 
ginuing. 
I.hs. 
Ill 
115 
as 
42 
Num- 
Total ber of 
gain, days 
fed. 
Lbs. 
840 
1,561 
501 
140 
140 
Average 
daily 
gain. 
Lbs. 
1 . 67 
1.64 
.79 
.817 
.841 
.639 
I'Ycd ]«■]■ 100 
pounds gain. 
Corn. ] Barley. 
Lbs. 
413 
Lbs. 
480 
432 
C424.55 
456 
- 490 
430 
c430. 
a Bui. No. 63. 
& An. Rpts., 1899 and 1900. 
c Dry matter. 
These results are not so favorable to barley as those of the preced- 
ing table, but it can also be said, in the light of these figures, that 
barley is nearly if not quite equal to corn for feeding pigs, judging it 
solely from the standpoint of rate and economy of gain, and if we 
take into consideration its effect on the carcass, it far surpasses corn 
as a high-grade pig feed. An experiment with purebred hogs at the 
Ontario Agricultural College, which is not included in the foregoing 
table, compared barley and corn. Some middlings and skim milk 
were given, but during the last month the grains were fed alone. 
While receiving middlings and skim milk the pigs on corn made the 
most economical gains, but after the middlings and skim milk were 
withdrawn the pigs on barley made the most rapid and economical 
gains. The experience of this institution places barley at the head of 
the list of American bacon-producing feeds. 
Ground wheat and barley compared with shelled corn. — At the Colo- 
rado Station Buffum and Griffith a fed two lots of pigs to compare the 
feeding value of home-grown Colorado grains with corn, which must be 
imported from States further east. The pigs used were rather ordinary 
grade Poland Chinas and Berkshires, about eight months old at the 
beginning of the experiment. One lot was fed shelled corn ; the other, 
a mixture of equal parts of ground wheat and barley. The wheat and 
barley were grown on the college farm. " The wheat was the com- 
mon Defiance variety and was grown in a field producing 34 bushels 
per acre. The barley was of the common hulled variety and was 
grown in a field that produced 25 bushels per acre." 
The pigs were kept in pens of equal size, each pen with a yard 
a Bui. No. 74. 
