SHELETERED UNSHELTERED PIGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1887, 9 August 1884, Page 4

SHELETERED UNSHELTERED PIGS.

Experiments made by Prof. E. M. Slier- / u tqn,' t oj ths Kansas State Agiiculturai College, show that it pays to pioteet jrigfc. Ten animals areas ne.uly alike *S possible were kept, during the last two winters, in separate pens, h\e in the basement of a barn and five in tin* < yftfH without .covering, save straw for They Were fad with Indian c< ru twice a day. each mess being caiufully Vteighed. The result was as follows :-- Pigß in the barn, I Ib of pork cost 4 9- 10 tli lb of corn ; pigs outside the bam, I lb pork cost 5 7-16 th lb of coin Or expressed in other words, each busliol of corn :— Fed in the barn, made 11 3-lOsh lb of poik ; fed outside the barn, made 0 7- 10th lb of pork. Tim shows that of every bushel of corn fed to the unsheltered pig^ an amount capable of making 1-6 pounds. of pork was used in keeping the pisr*> gtybrin. - p -According to these figures, if the sheltered pigs gained 100 pounds in weight cluriug the season, it was by the expenditure of 49 pounds of corn for each pound of pork, or 490 pounds of corn for the whole increase. The unsheltered pigs required 570 pounds of corn for 100 pounds ol pork. This shows a saving of 60 pounds of corn, about 1^ bushels, in favour of each shelteied pig ; but if the pigs are as healthy in the one case as in the other, and the gain is only in the saving of corn, it will hardly amount to the interest on the cost of the shelter and the wear and tear.