The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17

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and | wish to add few remarks by
way of commentator and also of cor
rection. The Kansas Experiment
station during the past two years has
experimental quite extensively in
the feeding of Kaflir to hogs to de-
iermne it's value as compared with
other crops, also what combinations
it feeds best with, and whether 1t
pays to grind.
Kaflir alone, bushel for bushel,
does not give quite the results that
corn will, but when yield and the
surety of a crop are put in its favor
| it undoubtedly is far ahead for local
tiles where corn IL not sure. And it
is surprising that farmers in these
localities should be 50 slow in recog-
nizing this fact.
While corn alone gives better re-
suits than Kaffir alone, when one
third soy-bean meal was added to
each the difference entirely disap-
peared, and with young hogs pro-
duced from Is to Is pounds of gain
| per bushel of the mixtures, with a
slight difference in favor of the Kafiir
and soy-beans. The gains from the
Kaflir alone were from 10 to II pounds
per bushel and from corn alone from
II to 10, leaving only a pound In favor
OF corn when fed alone.
L
The addition of alfalfa hay and
soy-bean meal to the feed of Kaflir
for hogs weighing an average of l25
pounds at the beginning of the feed.
ing period, was tried in duplicate last
winter, together with ground versus
unground Ksflir. These experiments
were very carefully conducted, under
ordinary farm conditions, and as ten
hogs were fed i'm each lot the results
can not be doubted. And the results
Of the duplicate experiments are sim
liar in every aspect.
The following is the result of the
first trial which lasted nine weeks,
November "a, 1898, to January 20,
1892 the hogs averaging l25 pounds
at the beginning. The gains per
| bushel Of feed were as follow:
Pounds.
Bathroom meal, dry, and 7ss pounds
alfalfa ay.................... ......... 10 IS
Katiir corn meal, dry, alone ............... AS
Bathroom meal, wet, alone .............. 500
Kafircorn, whole, alone. D.. .............. $50
Bathroom meal four-hiths, soy-bean
meal one-hfth .....,........... ........... l2OO
This shows gain in feeding alfalfa
| hay with Kaflir-corn to fattening
hogs of S6S pounds of pork per ton of
alfalfa hay. Valuing the hay at 50
per ton and fat hogs at cents per
pound live weight, the Kaflir-corn
fed alone brought 22.l cents per
bushel, the Kaflir-corn fed with
alfalfa brought 3l.4 cents and the
soy. beans 80 cents per bushel. The
hay fedswas of the best quality, care
fully cured with the leaves all on.
The second trial lasted fifty days.
from February Is to April II, the hogs
averaging l45 pounds at the begin
ning. The gains per hog in the fifty
days from the different methods of
feeding were as follows:
Pounds
Katfr-corn whole, and alfalfa hay ........ 6s.5
Bathroom meal and alfalfa hay .... ......, 6s 6
Kaiiir'corn whole alone ....................45.6
Kaillrcorn meal. alone Observation-Disclosures AL
Kafiir.corn meal fouT-ffths, soy-bean meal
one Fl fth ......,..... ......,.............. SGS
The gains per bushel of grain fed
were as follows:
Pounds.
Kailir'corn whole, and Ass pounds alfalfa
hay. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ............ ll.l7
Bathroom meal, and 10 pounds of alfalfa
hay ................. ....................l 10 Sc
Katiir-corn whole, slone observation-disclosures. S77
Katfr.corn meal, alone. Observation-Disclosures. 60
Katiir-corn meal four-ffths, soy bean meal
one fifth ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IL. 90
The hogs sold for So. 80 per 100
pounds live weight in Manhattan.
This experiment showed gain in
feeding alfalfa hay with Kafiir-corn
to fattenipg hogs of 1888 pounds of pork
per ton of alfalfa hay. The hay was
of poor quality, with many of the
leaves gone, and the hogs rejected a
large portion. Valuing the hay at So
per ton and the hogs at $3.50, their
selling price, live weight, the Kaffir-
corn alone brought 1913 cents per
bushel. the Kafiir-corn fed with a
falfa hay 1873 cents and the soy-beans
81 05 per bushel.
The fifty head were shipped to the
packers, Swift d Co. st. Joseph, Mo-,
who valued the different lots at the
following prices per hundred pounds
live weight; Kaffir-corn .and alfalfa
hay lot 1857; Kafii rcorn and coy bean
meal, $500; Kafiir-corn alone, So So;
and Kafiir-corn meal alone, So so AS
J to the value of grinding, 1t will be
seen that in three trials the grinding