Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-01-20
NORTH DAKOTA PORK
PRODUCTION CONTEST
Stutsman County Girl One Of
Prize Winners.


North Dakota Experiment Station
has been closed and the winners are
being announced.
Edith Penno of Grafton has won
first place by securing the largest
daily profit on a litter which con-
tained IL pigs that at 1913 days old
weighed 1888 pounds and returned
$104.68 above feed cost. The gains
being made at a cost of 2 cents per
pound. The daily profit on these
pigs, above feed cost, was 81 Ia
cents. Miss Penno was in the 1914
contest and secured third place. She
questioned the Experiment Station
experts as to how she could have re-
duced the cost of production in 1914
and this information she applied in
feeding her 1915 pigs. The main
feeds used were barley, screenings,
skim milk and pasture. Winning
first place entities her to a 800
cash prize and a Yorkshire SOW.
Kenneth wood of Arvilla won sec
ond place in the contest by produc-
ing a litter of thirteen Berkshires
that at 209 days old weighed 1855
pounds. The return above feed cost
was $94.25 or daily return Of 43
cents above the cost of the feed. He
won $50 prize. Barley was the
principal feed, screenings, slops, pas
ture and skim milk were also used.
The third place was won by Mar
tha Penno on a litter of 9 York
shires that at 169 days old weighed
1899 pounds. Mildred and Milton
Pierce of Glendale secured fourth
and fifth place. They started with
litters of y Durocs each. One Of
Mildred's litter died, yet she secured
return of AZ cents per day above
feed cost, while Milton's was Al q.
Mildred's II hogs at 212 days old
Tho greatest weight Of litter was
secured by Emile Clairmont of Wal
halla. The litter Of II pigs at POI
days weighed 1880 pounds. The re-
turn above feed cost was $6S.94 or
BAN cents per day, which gave him
sixth place.
The 1914 Pork Production con-
test was won by Anna Barrett of
Larimore with a litter of IA Durocs
that at 2O9 days weighed 1911
pounds and gave return OF IS II
cents per day above feed cost. The
1913 contest was won by Charles
Russell of Bottineau. He secured
weight of 1908 pounds from litter
of pigs 203 days old, making re-
turn of As cents per day over feed
cost.
The purpose of the contest has
been to create a greater interest in
pork production through demon
strating: /. That spring pigs can be
raised to marketable size before ex-
treme cold weather. 3. That salts
factory returns can be secured from
the money invested in pork produc-
tion. 9. That North Dakota feeds
are well adapted to pork production.
These points have been demonstrat-
ed in all three of the contests and in
such way as to bring them to the
attention of practically everyone in
the state. In fact the hogs have
been produced at feed cost OF about
half the market price. To do this,
however, it has been found necessary
that they be farrowed early, that
pasture be provided and that pas
ture be supplemented with good
grain ration to keep the pigs growing
SO that they will be ready for mar
ket before extreme cold weather.
have been found to be an
feed by many in the
contest. Skim milk has proved Of
great value. The big study in this
contest has been on economy of pro-
duction, which is the determining
factor in making the awards so that
the contestants have secured infor-
nation along this line from every
source possible. Circulars of infor-
nation on economy Of production
were sent them by the North Dakota
Station. They were also
sent the results of the previous con-
tests. The contestants were keen to
take advantage of the feeds that
would produce gains at the lowest
price. The feed prices were as fol-
lows: Barley, 50 cents; corn, 81
cents; oats, 80 cents; bran and
shorts, $40; screenings, SO; milk,
Is cents per 100 pounds; pasture,
$40 cents per hog per day; corn
hogged down, $8 per acre.
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