18 
BARLEY 
FEEDING TESTS WITH FIGS. 
First Test. Pall Figs of 1894. 
There were eleven pigs in the test. Six pigs were 
put in a large pen and fed ground common barley. The 
other five were put in a similar pen and fed whole corn. 
The pens were not fed the same amount of grain, but 
each was fed all that would be eaten up clean. 
Feed. 
Average 
Weiglit at 
Beginning 
of Test. 
Average 
Weight 
at End 
of Test. 
Average 
Gain in 
Weight. 
Grain 
eaten per 
Pig. 
Grain 
eaten for 
each pound 
of Growth. 
Barley 
152 
240 
88 
481 
5.4 
Corn 
159 
235 
7 
430 
5.6 
The results are slightly in favor of barley. The 
pigs getting barley, eat more grain and grow faster and 
require a trifle less grain to produce a pound of growth. 
Second Test With Figs. Spring Figs of 1895. 
A repetition of the preceding test with the same 
number of pigs, divided and fed in the same manner, 
but the pigs are smaller and younger at the beginning of 
the test. 
Feed. 
Average 
Weight at 
Beginning 
of Test. 
Average 
Weight at 
End of 
Test. 
Average 
Gain in 
Weight. 
Grain 
eaten per 
Pig. 
Grain 
eaten for 
each pound 
of Growth. 
Barley 
89 
194 
105 
452 
4.3 
Corn -- - 
101 
214 
113 
480 
4.3 
1 
The results of the second test are just the reverse 
of the first, i. e., the pigs getting corn eat a little more 
grain per head and grow a little faster — just fast enough 
to balance the extra grain; so that the same amount of 
grain is eaten by each lot per pound of growth. Com- 
bining the figures of the two tests there is a substantial 
equivalence of the results, the pigs eating the same 
