FEEDING HOGS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1695, 24 July 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

FEEDING HOGS.

An lowa farmer reports an experiment in feeding twenty hogs, about one year old. They were fed twenty-eight days on dry-shelled corn, consuming eighty-threa bushels and gaining 837 pounds in weight, an average gain over of 10 pounds to each bushel of corn, which \ was thus made to return a value of 50.4 cents. They were afterward fed fourteen days on meal, ground fine and fed dry (a full supply of water being furnished), and consumed 47 bushels, gaining 553 pounds in weight, or 11 £ pounds to each bushel fed, the corn returning a value of 58f cents per bushel. Afterward they were fed fourteen days on 55J bushels of meal mixed with cold water, and made a gain of 731 pounds, or 13 1-6 pounds to each bushel of meal, the corn returning 65 5-6 cents per bushel. They were then fed fourteen days on 46£ bubhela of meal cooked, with a gain of 696 pounds in weight, ■>r very nearly 15 pounds for each bushel of meal.the corn returning 74.8 cents per bushei. Experiments mada at the farm of the Maine Agricultural College in feeding four "for Pigs with whole corn and with raw cornu*ea showed that the feeding value of the latter was 19.4 per cent greater than that of the former. From January Isth to April 18th, a trial was made with raw cornmeal fed cold, and with cornmeal Boalded and fed blood-warm. The feeding value of the raw meal was found to be 4.7 per cent greater than that of the scalded meal fed warm. During two months, trial was also made in comparing the feeding value of barleymeal with that of cornmeal; the value of the latter was found to be 17.6 per cent greater than that of the former. During the month ending May 19tb, raw meal was found to possess a feeding value nearly 50 per cent greater than that of the fermented meal.