SWINE FEEDING IN COLORADO. 
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In Table IX. is given the average food eaten for each 
pound of gain produced, the average gains made, and the 
comparative cost and profit. In Pen I. it took 5.44 pounds 
of grain and .49 pounds of alfalfa to make a pound of gain, 
and while the pigs in this lot made the best gains on ac¬ 
count of the food eaten, it was at a slightly greater cost 
than where grain was fed alone in Pen II. With the corn 
and barley mixture it seems that it took a large amount of 
grain for each pound of gain, not making as good a show¬ 
ing as did wheat and barley in other experiments. While 
only a small amount of sugar beets was eaten by the pigs in 
Pen III., adding beets to the ration seemed to produce no 
beneficial effect. The pigs made smaller gains at greater 
expense that either of the other lots. 
TABLE IX. 
FOOD PER POUND OF GAIN, COST AND PROFIT. 
A verage 
Food for One Pound Gain. 
Gain 
per 
Head 
per 
Day. 
Cost 
per 
Pound 
of 
Gain. 
Aver’ge 
Cost 
of 
Food 
Eaten. 
Aver’ge 
First 
Cost of 
Hogs 
@ 4 cts. 
Aver’ge 
Total 
Profit 
@ 5 cts. 
Aver’ge 
Cost 
per lb. 
of 
Dress’d 
Pork. 
Corn. 
Barley. 
Sugar 
Beets. 
Alfalfa. 
Pen I. 
lbs. 
3.72 
lbs. 
1.72 
lbs. 
lbs. 
0.49 
lbs. 
1.13 
cts. 
4.9 
$ 
5.40 
$ 
6.49 
$ 
1.73 
cts. 
5.10 
Pen II. 
3.63 
1.65 
1.08 
4.6 
4.86 
6.18 
1.94 
4.90 
Pen III.... 
3.64 
1.91 
1.03 
.99 
5.2 
5.04 
5.93 
1.26 
5.30 
SWINE FEEDING EXPERIMENT OF 19OI. 
An experiment planned to test the value of shorts when ' 
fed with corn and to compare the value of a ration of corn 
with a combination of wheat, oats and barley with the value 
of a ration of shorts fed in a like combination. The feed¬ 
ing was done from March 23d to May 31, 1901. Eleven 
pure bred Berkshire pigs were used in this experiment, 
averaging about five months of age. The trial was con¬ 
ducted similar in all respects to the other experiments re¬ 
ported in this bulletin. The following foods were fed: 
Pen I.—Corn. 
Pen II.—Corn and shorts. 
Pen III.—Shorts, wheat, oats and barley fed in rotation. Shorts 
with wheat and oats one day, and with wheat and barley the next, oats 
and barley the third day and so on. 
Pen lV.—Corn, wheat, oats and barley. The corn rotated with 
two other grains as indicated for pigs in Pen III. 
In Pen I. there were two pigs averaging 164.5 pounds. 
They were two months older than the remaining ones used 
