The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-06-07

give WeiehD was produced at Che rate
OF 1925 pounds per acre OF peanuts,
supplemented by SS bushels OF corn.
With half q stand OF plants an acre
Of Spanish peanuts produced, unaided,
pork at the rate Of 161 pounds per
acre, and at the rate of $40 pounds per
ecre, and at the rate Of $40 pounds per
acre when the acre OF peanuts was sup
plemented with S61 bushels Of corn.
When fed to pigs in, pens only three
pounds of unhulled Spanish peanuts
were required TO produce each pound
Of increase in live weight. This is
equal to nine pounds of increase, worth
90 cents, as O return for each bushel Of
peanuts eaten.
Shoats pastured on nearly mature
COW peap and supplied with corn made
almost three times the gain live weight
made by similar shoats fed exclusively
on corn.
The unfaVorable effects Of long con
tinued feeding Of an exclusive corn
ration to young pigs is plainly shown.
The unthrifty appearance Of the pigs
eating nothing but corn was q startling
commentary on the financial loss fol.
lowing such q course
The addition OF coz to the peanut
ration increased the total gain, but ii
required more of the mixed food than
OF peanuts to produce pound Of in
crease.
The better effects Of the mixed ration
may be due to one or all Of the follow
ing causes: "
1. TO the undetermined amount Of
leaflets eaten. ae sl4Is1I liz
3. To the more heterogeneous charac.
ter (or better quality Of the mixed
ration. -
8. To the better appetites Of the pigs
ON q mixed diet, resulting Inn the con-
sumption Of q large quantity Of corn
and in more rapid fattening than oc
Cured with the lot on an exclusive
corn diet. It is well established prin-
ciple that rapid fattening Of pigs Is
effective with less food per pound of
growth than ia slow fattening.
and its value in 8 cent pork, after sub.
tracing the cost Of thecorn fed, was
SO IS per acre.
Shoats fed in pens gained more rap
idly in weight on q ration of ground
COW peas and corn that on ground corn
alone. I'm tf5ct Eve and O quarter
pounds Of this mixed food was equal
Co eight pounds Of ground corn.
Three pounds OF sweet potatoes
proved decidedly inferior to one pound
Of corn meal.
The results show that under the con.
ditions Of this experiment one pound
OF corn was worth much more than
three pounds ofsweet potatoes. These
figures do not enable VI TO place an ex
act value OF potatoes, but In~dicatethat
pricing corn at 40 cents per bushel
sweet potatoes were worth less than 13
c snts per bushel of Sc pounds. Che
legal weight of q bushel Of sweet po,
tatoes varies in different States)
If corn were worth 80 cents per
bushel these results would give to
sweet potatoes q value considerably
below IL cents. Probably 10 and 10
cents a bushel would be a closer esti
mate OF the nutritive value OF a bushel
of potatoes fed with COW peas in the
proportions employed in this expert
ment.
Inasmuch az 800 bushels of sweet
potatoes is not an extraordinary yield,
this crop will still easily produce more
pork per C than corn, and mas
much as the hogs do their own har
vesting and feeding without waste, it
can be readily seen that n-otwithstand-
ing their low feeding values compared
with corn sweet potatoes are a cheap
hog foo6 in the South. They are sue
culent, palatRble and wholesome.
The value Of sweet potatoes will be
enhanced by feeding with them a lib.
eral allowance OF COW peas and pea.
nuts, with supply the heterogeneous ma
terial in which the sweet potato is de
fcient.
Cow peas fed with corn will not i'm
j~uriously affect the quality Of the pork
or lard. Peanuts, when fed with corn,
greatly softened the pork and lard.
The softening effect Of peanuts was
still greater when they constituted the
sole food.
This aoftening effect of peanuts was
not corrected by feeding exclusively
on corn for a month before the date of
slaughtering.
Lard FROM exclusive peanut feeding
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