The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-30

Alfalfa Tea for Pigs" In the course
| Of his experiments along the lines OF |
higher efficiency In the feeding Of al
falfa and OF effecting economies and
converting waste into profit, Doctor
Sudduth discovered that an extra
could be made from the alfalfa. straw
which is not only an almost ideal pig
| food but which leaves more available
protein in the straw after the cooking |
than was available when the stems
were in the raw state. According to
his analyses, the meal made from his
selected mountain-grown alfalfas,
rightly harvested and cured, contains
! 20.13 per cent protein after the leaves
! and tender portions of the stalk have
been separated from the straw by a
mechanical process. This meal also
contains 5 per cent of fat, with carbo- |
i hydrates running high-4345 per cent,
and with crude fiber only 1896 per
cent.
less scientific man, having found
that he could extract from alfalfa
stems rich and nourishing tea pecu-
liarly adapted to the delicate digestive
system of young pigs, would have
thrown the fairgrounds away-but not
the man of research laboratory! Fol-
lowing the habit Of lifetime devoted
to scientific research and particularly
to the purpose of working out BAL
anced ration for man and beast, he in
stinctively referred the teaground TO
the laboratory to determine the lles-
ton: What are they worth? The an
i swer returned by chemical analysis
was: more than they were before the
| tea was extracted" In other words,
| in the process of cooking, the tea
grounds are so changed in character
that the percentage of digestible pro-
tein and fat is distinctly increased, in
stead Of diminished, leaving the
grounds with higher food value, in
the making of balanced ration, than
the original uncooked straw possessed.
BY strict computation this net avail
able, nutritive gain of the fairgrounds
over the raw straw is more than
enough to cover the expense of cook
ing, leaving the value OF the tea as
J clear velvet for the hogfeeder.
The fairgrounds show an analysis of
+ 1882 per cent protein and 2:5 per cent
fat
In 1910 Doctor Sudduth raised over
eight hundred and this year thou
sand pigs on alfalfa tea as the main
element of the feeding ration and fitted
them for market with far less Difficult
ty and expense than the average hog
farmer experiences with the standard
food rations Here. is the way in
which Doctor Sudduth explains his ex-
periments in pork production from al
falfa tea:
1.-THE alfalfa tea made under ordin-
airy farm conditions and upon broad
commercial basis compares favorably
with skim milk in its food value-no'
so much by reason of the casein OF
: protein content embodied in the skin
:. milk as the fact that it gives fluit
/ so easily digested that, when you come
to make your mixture of feed with thu
tea, you have combination that is al
most marvelously capable of quick as
similatlon-and that is just what thu
/ young pigs require, for his digestive
apparatus is perhaps the most delicat'
of all animals.
The hogs digestive process come
nearer to that of man than does tina
of any other creature; it is easily up
set, and to get satisfactory commercial
results the delicate digestive maehin
cry of the swine must be artfully, sys
tematicaly and scientifically pander
ed to from infancy up. The whole ae
ricultural world is practically agree
on the fact that skim milk and short
= are about the ideal food for pigs. 1t i
also admitted-and cannot be dispute
~ that if any grains are cooked the
ue are thereby put into much more d
~ gestible form than when raw Conse
ch quently in working cut my hog-ratiol
~ my aim has been to duplicate-and
IF possible to improve upon-the hereto
~ fore ideal combination of skim mil
gu and shorts.
ne A Cheap and Nourishing Feed.
la Both chemical analysis and whf
lht the farmer would call hog-scales al
Id. alysis prove that the alfalfa-tea ratio
NO is not only fifty per cent better tina
the shorts and skim-milk combinatio
W, but that it costs less than half q
M much. More than this, it has anothe
pie immense advantage. 1t can be PR
ISL duced in large and dependable quaint
ne ties wherever alfalfa is raised On tt
an other hand, available skim milk is a
us ways limited to the dairy output, viii
the supply of shorts is always e.
ow tremely limited; and the demand is s
Ugh great that no farmer in Montana
oil any other place that know of-can 6
re, to any mill in this country TORY ar
ere place contract for five cars Of short
rd Why? Because the big mills use the
the shorts as a bait for the sale of the
vas. flour.
the "Shorts are seldom sold at the mi
Of for less than twenty dollars ton, al
by 1t is not uncommon for them to go
cid high as twenty-six dollars.
the 1.-THE ordinary mill-run of ground
)la- falfa contains too much coarse, WOO
set- fiber to be used in compromising tn
,me ration Therefore take the mill-r'
on and put it over screen which tax
has out certain proportion of the coar
The fiber-all that would be injurious
ria, the hogs; the result is meal tn
not contains seventeen per cent availat
protein and less than fifteen per &c
, in of fiber and is in form that col
hat pares physically with shorts in prac
tive cally every particular having abo
nts, the same speclnc gravity anu tne so
soil general characteristics. By adding