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    · AA 12 Bulletin N0. 190, _
li   A     AA The feed eaten by Lot 1 was 1846 pounds distillers’ dried `
A  °   s A— grains; Lot 2, 3279 pounds corn meal; Lot 3, 2813 pounds .
  ’ _, A . corn meal and 563 pounds distillers’ dried grains; and Lot 4
1 » I ‘ (dry lot), 2391 pounds corn meal and 478 pounds distillers’ l
I f - ` dried grains. " ‘ -
L   I · A Arii · All the pigs in this experiment were in good, thrifty, grow- A ‘
3 . A t ing condition at the beginning of the experiment. The pigs
I   I getting distillers’ dried grains alone would eat but very little  `
—   ~ A   . of the grains for two weeks. In fact, they never ate heartily
g-    ‘ J I · of this feed. They were provided at all times with all the V
  s·   , A A- grains they would eat without waste. The pigs in the dry  .1
Q A 1,  Y. " _ lot were gotten on full feed in about ten days, and were fed  A
‘  i I   approximately four per cent. of their live weight in grain I
if  `Q A ‘_ . daily, which is usually considered a full feed for a pig in the I
    = 3 dry lot. It was our purpose to keep the pigs getting corn ‘ ,
  .1   . meal five parts and distillers’ dried grains one part on -
  , pasture (Lot 3), and the pigs getting corn meal on pasture `
  , Lot 2 on a ration of two to two and one-half per cent. of ‘
      i ‘ I their live weight, but it was diflicult to accomplish this on li
  A A A account of the quality of the pasture, for as the pasture e  ·
  AP "_,A   I became depleted, it was necessary to increase the grain.
  ` I 1 These lots of pigs, however, were never put on full feed, as
  , { three per cent. of their live weight in grain daily was the  I
    most they were ever given. · .
    It will be seen from Table III, that the lot getting distillers’ A
    dried grains alone (Lot 1) did not make, the gain that was  l
    made by any of the other three lots. In fact, the average ‘
;giAj,iAQ;l-1 , gains of Lots 2 and 3 were more than double that of Lot 1,
fL§A,{1,;   and at the same time, one hundred pounds of gain were made
    on 68 pounds less feed in Lot 3 and 24 pounds less in Lot 2
  T   than in Lot 1. The value of corn meal alone as a feed for
    pigs on young pasture has been recognized.* In this exper- .  
Q`?”A;?Q, E iment, Lot 3, the lot in which corn meal was supplemented I
 {1  § with distillers’ dried grains and pasture, made the most ra id
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  A A and cheapest gains of all lots, gaining on the average 1.027 i _
    pounds per head daily as compared with .456 pound for Lot  Q
ga  ` §   pound for Lot 2, and .883 pound for Lot 4 (dry lot).   A
  ”Bul. 175, Ky. Experiment Station, p. 337. AA
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