Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-09-15

The test demonstrated another
thing-that corn without supple
mental feed is not as good for grow
ing swine nor as economical as a
combination feed. They must be fed
something with corn that will give
them needed nitrates. The COW peas
and soy beans do that. If the sup
Elemental crops were not sown, then
hogs turned into the corn field should
be fed meat meal, tankage, or linseed
oil meal. That is important, insists
Prof. Evvard.
In 1910 another four lots Of shoats
were turned into the fields to forage
for themselves, with the following re-
suits:
Cost Total
for each lbs.
100 lbs. gain
Of gain per acre
Lot 1, corn and Cana
dian field peas.....$3.75 329
Lot 2, corn and soy
beans -...............-..... 3.U6 457
Corn, rape and pump
kins 800 abt. same
Corn and vetch............ 600 283
In this test, the pigs in the field
of corn and soy beans took on weight
at the rate of 8 ID. per day, in the
corn, rape and pumpkin field ID.
per day. and in the corn and vetch
field A lbs. per day. The vetch proved
itself an unsatisfactory supplemental
feed. TIE rape and pumpkins were
very satisfactory, even though the
rape and pumpkins were only fair
stand.
In this 1910 test the cost per 100
lbs. of gain was estimated differently
than in 1909. In 1910 the corn yield
was charged to the hogs at z cents
per bushel less than market value,
that being the cost Of husking and
hauling to market.
Professor Evvard demonstrated
this other important fact in his 1910
experiments: The shoats from the
corn field may be fed out at less cost
than those that are taken from the
dry feed lot The shoats from the
corn and soy bean field gained 81
lbs. per day In the finishing lot at
cost of only 1888 per 100 pounds of
gain. The shoats from the corn and
Canadian peas gained at the rate of
LAT lbs. yer day. Those from the
dry lot gained at the rate Of 1.6 ms.
per day and at cost of $3.43 per 100
pounds gained. The pigs from the
field were more vigorous and better
rustlers than the feed lot pigs.
If the corn in the corn and peas
field had been husked and sold, it
would have brought approximately
$1,000 per acre; hogged down, it pro-
duced pork worth $19.74, 100 per
cent increase.
If the corn and soy beans field had
been husked and marketed it would
have brought $11.62 per acre; as it
was fed, it produced pork worth
$27.41, an increase of 140 per cent.
If the corn in the corn, rape and
pumpkin field had been marketed, it
would have brought $19.34 per acre.
It produced pork worth $38.O4. The
corn and vetch field yielded corn
worth 1851 and it produced pork
worth only $17.O1, indicating that the
combination is Intellectual.
Even where no soy beans or COW
peas were sown, corn may be salts
factorily hogged down if meat meal
or its equivalent be fed with the
corn. A pound Of meat meal per hog
per day will give the desired results
and increase the feeding value of the
corn. The farmer need not hesitate
to buy meat meal, though it may cost
him from $45 to $50 per ton. A
pound of meat meal will put on as
much pork as fifteen pounds Of corn,
and its cost is only 2k cents as
against IL cents for the corn. A
pound will answer for each pig per
day. When more is fed it loses some
of its efficiency as feed. Just enough
to balance the ration is necessary.
The cost of fencing of the feeding
lot is urged a. an objection to hog