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The Colorado Experiment Station. 
Colorado Agricultural College, “News Notes.” G. E. Morton: 
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Pounds Feed Required for 100 
Gain Per 
Pounds 
Gam. 
Head Lbs. 
Grain 
Hav 
Tankage 
Sugar 
Beets 
12 Weeks 
Barley 
l 
469.4 
59.8 
109.3 
Alfalfa Hay 
3. 
Corn 
1 
556.0 
74.1 
99.1 
alfalfa Hay 
3. 
Barley 
1 
483.9 
469.9 
88.9 
Sugar Beets 
3. 
518.6 
76.7 
Corn, Sugar Beets. 
591.7 
Barley 34 / 
Corn 34 ) 
Alfalfa Hay 
450 3 
61.4 
119.5 
Barley 34 l 
W heat 34 3 
499.6 
103.6 
Barley 34 / 
Peas 34 3 
Barley 34 l 
513 3 
98.7 
106.1 
476.1 
Shorts 34 3 
Barley 9 10 [ 
Tankage 1 10 3 
417.4 
47.2 
120.1 
Corn 910 ( 
Tankage 1 10 3 
394.1 
V 
42.8 
132.5 — 
The pigs averaged 80 pounds each at the start. 
Professor Morton concludes: To sum the matter up, corn 
and tankage make a very cheap and satisfactory ration, producing 
the largest gains of any ration used. Barley and tankage makes 
a cheaper ration than barley and wheat, or barley and peas, but not 
quite so cheap as barley and shorts, although producing the second 
largest gains. Barley, corn and alfalfa hay proved a very satis¬ 
factory ration, being second only to corn and tankage in cheapness, 
and producing the third largest gains of any ration. The corn and 
alfalfa hay ration did not prove satisfactory, being the costliest 
ration used, with the exception of the beet rations. The beet ra¬ 
tions were not in the running. 
The amount of feed required for one hundred pounds of gain 
is given, so that one can figure the cost with the prices that prevail 
in his community. 
Dry alfalfa hay was fed in racks, and comparing barley and 
alfalfa hay with barley and wheat, barley and peas, and barley and 
shorts; one ton of alfalfa hay had a feeding equivalent of 233 
pounds of shorts, 1,000 pounds of peas and 1,467 pounds of wheat. 
COLORADO HOG EEEDS. 
Field Pees. —The chief pea feeding section in Colorado is the 
8an Luis Valley, where the altitude is from 7,500 to 8,000 feet. 
