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BULLETIN 74. 
While sugar beets cost less per pound than any other 
food, except pulp, it took 61.3 pounds of beets for each 
pound of gain made at a cost of over twelve cents. There 
was a comparatively large amount of waste in the beet fed 
lot, as they dressed only 77 percent of the live weight. 
The pigs in Pen II. ate 3.9 pounds of grain and 8 pounds 
of beet pulp for each pound of gain. This made the cost of 
each pound of gain 4.3 cents and the cost of each pound of 
dressed pork 6.5 cents. They dressed 80 percent of the live 
weight which is a little better than the beet fed lot and is 
the same as the corn fed lot. 
The pigs in Pen V. which were given the same kind of 
grain as the pulp fed lot in Pen II. and sugar beets instead 
of pulp, ate just a little more grain, 4.2 pounds, and one-half 
the amount of beets, or 4 pounds, compared with 8 pounds 
of pulp in Pen II. However, each pound of gain cost 5 
cents in the beet fed lot and the dressed pork cost 6.8 cents 
per pound. In this trial, then, the pulp gave a better return 
in dollars and cents than the sugar beets. It is believed the 
results would have been still more favorable to the pulp if 
we had fed only one-half as much, or three and one-half 
pounds instead of seven pounds, which was consumed per 
day. The beet fed lot actually ate three and three-fourths 
pounds of beets per day. 
The pigs in Pen III. ate 5.4 pounds of corn for each 
pound of gain, making the cost of each pound of gain 7 
cents, or 8 cents per pound for dressed pork. 
The pigs in Pen IV. ate only 4.5 pounds of grain composed 
of equal parts of wheat and barley for each pound of gain, 
at a cost of 4.5 cents, or of 6.1 cents for each pound of 
dressed pork. These pigs grew better and dressed better 
than those fed on corn alone. (See illustration.) This 
shows that one pound of wheat and barley was equal to 1.2 
pounds of corn for making gains, where the corn is fed 
alone. But since corn cost $1.30 per hundred pounds while 
the wheat and barley cost only $1.00 per hundred pounds, 
there is even greater difference in the respective values of 
the dressed pork produced. If wheat and barley were 
worth $j.oo, then in the light of this experiment the farmer 
could not afford to pay more than 83.3 cents for corn if he 
contemplated feeding it alone to swine as is usual. Instead 
of that, many farmers paid 46 cents to over 50 cents per 
hundred more for corn than it was worth to them and even 
sold their other grains to enable them to do it. 
Comparing the values of pulp with grain in Pens II. and 
IV., we see that eight pounds of pulp in Pen II. was made 
