The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-16
Feeding Pigs.
UNEXPECTED Results or ExPERIMExrsC
MEAL, CoB-SIEAL AND Corn.

We have. many occasions, expressed the be-
lief that the greatest good the of progress
sive agriculture would be derived from the practical
work Of Farmers Clubs and local organizations
operating in 3 common cause. Such associations
may accomplish much in experiments, not only with
fertilizers, but in different modes of culture,
varieties OF seed, also IN the economical feeding of
stock.
Illustrating this idea, we are pleased TO record
a series 0f experiments recently conducted by the
PomfTet, CT, Farmers Club, and the Woodstock,
Ct, Farmers Club, both live, active. and intelli
geut organizations. At the bingham meeting
OF the Massachusetts, State Board OF Agriculture
last year, DIR. Nichols ventured the assertion from
what he then knew Of the analysis of Eastern and
Western corn, that the Eastern grown corn ground
with the cob would be equally nutritious With the
clear Western The Pomfret Club above men,
toned, in discussion Of this subject, also raised
the query to the comparative feeding value Of In
dian meal and cob-meaL Being unable to arrive at
any satisfactory conclusion concerning this i'm
portant question: the Pomfret Club finally proposed
to the Woodstock Club series Of joint experiments,
which proposal was accepted by the latter.
A joint committee was accordingly appointed,
Of their number being selected to conduct the ex-
perimenIs Nine thrifty shoats were purchased, and
divided uniformally as possible into three pens
The experiment was begun April i, and ended June
6. Lot No. l was fed 1882 pounds Of corn ground
into meal-elear meal wet in pure water. Lot No
2 was fed cob-meal and water 1861 pounds of corn
and cOb-meal Lot No. fed 1.l92 pounds of
clear corn with water. E.. .......-.
at the commencement of the experiment 453 To-; (;
weight slaugherng, 760 lb.; gain in live weight,
307 ID dressed weight, 6151 10.
Lot No. 2, weight at commencement, ACT lb. /;
Ib.; dressed weight 603 10 -
Lot No. g. live weight the start, 456 ID; at
saughter;ng $50 h.; gain in live weight, 233 To-; ;
dressed weight 567 To-
Lot No l gained ia live weight for every bushel
fed Is 797-l332 10. No gained 10 l65 1861 lb..
and No. gained IL 636-1l92 lb- With lot No. IL
took Al To- Of meal to secure gain Of ID of live
weight, and 81 h. to make pound of dressed pork
With lot No it took 1856 294 10 of cobmea to
cure gain Of ID. live weight. and rife less than
6 Ib to make pound of dressed pork. Reducing
this Quantity Of cob meal TO clear meal, IL will be
fou nd that 81 10. of clear meal made pound live
weight, while the equivalent Cf 81 of clear meal
made \ pound Of dressed pork. With lot No q It
took s 3-79 ID. Of clear corn TO make pound gain
in live weight and 40-197 To- to make pound Of
pork dressed weight Thus the feeders received for
every busheI Of corn fed in meal to lot No &C 7S-
444 ce ats; for every bushel Of corn fed as coo-mea
10 II3O 1861 cents and for every bushel Of corn fed
without grinding, Sc 64-295 cents
These experiments show us that when we compare
analysis Of food with results of feeding there Is some
thing We fail to discover. Neither chemistry nor
theory would expect that corn ground With the cob
would prove . feeding material OF nearly equal
value to that Of clear meal; yet this experiment
proves such to be the case and further proves that
cobmeal Is superior in feeding value 10 that oil iced
ing corn without grinding Corn fed with the cob is
greatly enhanced IN value. This ls somewhat con-
IrAry to generally received opinions We have loug
been satisfied that certain amount Of coarse ma
terial fed 10 cattle with concentrated food was both
ndiciOus, economical, and probable but account
Of the peculiar construction OF the pigs stomach We
we're not prepared for a result showing the desira-
biliIy Of feeding coarse material in connection with
corn meal
Thus the careful experiments Of these Farmers
Clubs become superior 20 theory and above chemical
analysis. This same authority also supplies other
interesting figures In lot No. ] n certain pig
weighed before slaughtering l64 lbs dressed weight
$50 lbs Shrinking - 1924 lbs per cent of 1--we
weight; while another weighed 263 lbs. live weight
dressed weight 217 lbs, shrinking Il 1923 lbs
per cent Of live weight; while third at slaughter
ing weighed 800 lbs, dressed weight 248 lbs
shTinkage IL 149-303 lbs. per cent Of live weight.
showing that the shrinkage of Eellfed animal is
less than that Of one half-fat- r1lt ..I a..-..H
Again il was found that the shrnkage Of lot No. l,
in sAughtering, was 19 60-760 lbs per cent Of live
weight this lot being fed meal; the shrink
age in the slsughlering Of lot No fed on cobmeal
Was - per cent; while lot No. shrunk Is 365-6S9
lbs per cent Those fed eob-meal shrunk the
most Perhaps this was eansed by the disteniion Of
the stomach through the OF coarse food, eDlarg
ing permanently the stomach. aud consequently con-
tanning the most food. Those fed on corr consumed
the feWesG pounds and shrunk the least in slaughter
ing--BOst0R CBifiDaf0r. sIrt fi t1r rI..s.