SWINE FEEDING IN COLORADO. 
{a) Beet Pulp and Sugar Beets for Fattening Hogs. 
(b) Home-Grown Grains vs. Corn for Fattening Hogs. 
(c) Other Trials with Corn, Barley, Alfalfa and Beets. 
BY B. C. BUFFUM AND C. J. GRIFFITH.* 
The general conclusions which may be drawn from the 
experimental investigations reported in this bulletin will be 
found in condensed form on the last pages, and we suggest 
that the busy man who is willing to accept our testimony 
may profitably omit the reading of all intermediate material, 
except the pictures. 
The last enumeration of hogs in Colorado (1901) credit¬ 
ed the state with 101,198 head. There are, according to 
the census, 2,273,968 acres of land irrigated, and the farms 
and ranches number 24,700. 
The scarcity of swine in the state is due largely to the 
system of farming in vogue which allows a great majority 
of the stock raised on ranches to run at large on the range 
in the mountains or on the plains a large part of the year, 
keeping them on the ranch only during the cold months. 
This system reduces the expense of raising stock to a mini¬ 
mum. Every animal that can be spared from the ranch is 
thus grazed on lands that cannot be farmed and con¬ 
sequently have a small value. Outside of the dairies there 
are not a great many cows milked. The total number of 
cows in the state is about 20,157, according to the 1900 cen¬ 
sus report. The milk cows and the work horses constitute 
the ranch live stock during the greater part of the year. 
Then, too, there are not a great number of cattle fattened 
in the state and so there is not the demand for hogs to fol¬ 
low the cattle in the feed lots. 
A third reason is the lack of information among our 
farmers of the feeding value of our home-grown grains for 
instructor in Animal Husbandry. 
