Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-06

Ames, Nov. 6.-Iowa State College OF
Agriculture yesterday conducted at
Ames a short course" for farm paper
editors. The study was pig feeding.
Teachers were Professors John NJ.
Evvard and w. H. Pew, in charge Of
experimental work at the college.
The students were editors of thirty
odd leading farm and live stock publi-
cations, extending over territory from
Pennsylvania TO Kansas.
The strong points brought out in the
results of the experimental work, in
which some 400 pigs had been used, was
that self-feeding in dry lot, "hogging
down corn" and the Iowa free choice"
system of feeding are the superior
methods of production.
The day had been properly dedicated
Iowa swine feeding day" and the sue
cess of the initial meeting warrants its
repetition in years to come. I'VE plan
to make it a yearly feature of our
work." Professor Evvard declared to
the editors.
Iowa College is an institution whose
influence can best be carried to the
people Of this state and others thru the
columns OF the farm papers," This was
a statement of DR.. r. A. Pearson, presi-
dent of the Iowa State College Of Agri-
culture, who opened the meeting with
an address on agricultural work as
carried on at the college.
President Pearson in addressing the
editors told of the great growth of agri-
cultural progress in the state and of
the many problems which are almost
daily brought to the attention of the
college by farmers over Iowa.
Students Return to Farm.
Declaring that the influence of agri-
cultural college life does not drive the
farm boy away from the farm, but
rather holds him closer to it, Professor
w. H. Stevenson, head of the agronomy
department of the college. told the farm
paper editors that out Of class of
ninety-seven graduates from Iowa, an
investigation recently made had deter
mined that seventy-eight of them were
actually back on the farms doing farm
work and making success of it, while
only two had left the agricultural field
and some seventeen others were en-
gagged in agricultural newspaper work.
The theory that an agricultural col
lege education units farm boy fcf
farm work has long since been found
lacking" declared Professor Stevenson.
The college education that the farm
boy gets Is proving a decided help to
him in every way where he has gone
back to the farm.
I'VE are aiming here to solve prob
lens of the farm which affect the prac-
teal rather than the theoretical, and
in this we are succeeding"
Pigs Fed Many Ways.
The meeting had been advertised as
a demonstration of the results Of "57'
different ways of feeding a pig, and
those demonstrations, given in the feed
yards of the college grounds. We're so
numerous that the visiting students"
never had time to keep tab on the ac-
tual count. Suffice to say, that a pig
can be fed many ways and probably.
but the crux of the whole work at
Iowa College has been to find the most
economical ana therefore profitable
way.
Professor Evvard who conducted the
editors over the farm, pointing out the
various lots. gave the results OF many
test feelings and. concluding. said:
THE more corn fed the better the hog
growth. quicker as well, and more eco
nomical Skimping In feeding of corn
means more labor and less profit.
Thus. summed up In few words were
the results of experiments conducted
in the past year. given by the man
who has had charge Of the work
Give Results Of Tests.
Iowa College took a big batch OF
pigs, all of an age and of breed. tho
not full-breds All We're given the
double vaccination treatment to I'M
munize them from cholera Then the
work was under way and the test was
conducted for 120 days.
Four lots of five head each were red
grain on bluegrass pasture, one lot
per cent corn, or one pound OF corn
daily for each 100 pounds OF weight;
another 8 per cent corn, th1rd fuil
fed corn twice daily, and the fourth
was settled shelled corn and tankage
in separate feeders.
At the end Of the test period daily
gains were .25, 49, 1.2o and LBS pounds.
respectively. Final weights were u
pounds. 141 pounds, 1876 pounds and
204 pounds.
Feed required during the test for
each 100 pounds of gain was 221, 302.
32s and 334 pounds of shelled corn and
1876, 81, 80 and 80 pounds, respectively.
of tankage, or total Of 407, 1853. 36l
and 3s9 pounds Of feed. besides the
pasturage. each lot having access to
one quarter of an acre OF bluegrass
Figured at selling price OF $500
per cwt. for each lot, the results on
the feeding were as follows: Lot l. II
cents loss per head Lots 2, and 4
! made profit Of s1.77. s2.77 and So.o4
respectively. Corn was figured at a
cost of 20 cents a bushel and tankage
at $3.50.
| More Corn. More Profit.
The results indicate these points:
L. So little as 1 per cent corn "a
ton IN bluegrass is not advisable, even
tho necessary protein supplement N
! the form OF tankage be fed. The costs
and the loss demonstrate this quite
thoroughly. If a 10 per cent ration
would not make good in 1915. a year
of bounteous green bluegrass, the
chances are against It ever doing so.
2. The more 70cent corn one feeds
on bluegrass, properly supplemented
the greater the gains, the less the cost
| and the larger the profits per pig.
g. Se1f-feeding excelled two times
day Manufacturing in every particular
that makes for greater profits and 10,
! less labor