SWINE FEEDING IN COLORADO. 
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then, our home grown grains are worth less money right on 
our farms than corn in town, and in turn either of them 
singly will produce more pork per pound than will corn, and 
when fed mixed are far superior to corn, have we not the 
solution of the problem of supplying concentrates which will 
profitably fatten hogs? (In this connection special atten¬ 
tion is called to Summary of Lot IV. in the 1902 Experi¬ 
ment, page 22). Together with the alfalfa for forage and 
the sugar beets and their by-products for roughage, Colo¬ 
rado should become a factor in the production of pork. 
OBJECT OF EXPERIMENT IN 1902. 
To test the value of pulp and sugar beets when fed 
with grain; the value of sugar beets alone; and these three 
compared with corn, wheat and barley, was the purpose of 
this experiment. It is reallv a comparison of home grown 
foods vs. corn and is a continuance of experiments previ¬ 
ously carried out with both swine and sheep. It is also 
important at this time to be able to give something definite 
about the value of sugar beets and pulp for all classes of 
stock. There will be in excess of 150,000 tons of beet pulp 
available for feeding this fall and winter. To be able to 
utilize this for wintering or fattening stock would add vastly 
to the live stock industry. So large a subject is this feeding 
of pulp that this bulletin does not attempt to treat more 
than partially the utility of pulp for fattening swine. 
PLAN OF EXPERIMENT. 
Twenty shoats were divided into five lots of four each. 
Care was taken in selecting the individuals for each lot, that 
each pen should be as representative as possible for the 
entire number. Each lot had the same sized pen in the 
piggery and each had access to the small yards adjoining. 
Pigs in Pen I. were fed sugar beets alone. 
Pigs in Pen II. were fed beet pulp and ground wheat and barley. 
Pigs in Pen III. had shelled corn. 
Pigs in Pen IV. were given ground wheat and barley. 
Pigs in Pen V. were given sugar beets, ground wheat and barley. 
Eor the pigs in Pen I. the sugar beets were chopped 
into small pieces and the pigs were given all that they would 
eat of them. Fresh, clean water was supplied twice daily at 
feeding time. Besides this, the shoats had access to noth¬ 
ing but the straw used for bedding, except an occasional 
small quantity of ashes or coal which was supplied to all 
pens alike. These pigs were fed to see just what hogs 
