° Distillers’ Dried Grains in Swine Feedmg Operations. 13 _ i
d It required 300 pounds of grain for one hundred pounds of
S gain in Lot 3, compared with 368 pounds in Lot 1, 344 pounds I ·'
4 in Lot 2, and 444 pounds in Lot 4. b  
;· Not counting the` value of the pasture, the gains of Lot 3 1   A
· cost $2.05 less per cwt. than those of Lot 4. The value of , . i-l
r- · the manure produced by the pigs in Lot 3, as is stated later,  
TS ` was worth $12.24, which would largely pay for the rent of · , E  
B  _ the two acres of land.for the length of time used in this ex-  
y ` periment, as well as the cost of labor in preparing the fields }  
6 and seed sown, as made from the following estimate: The _ 3};.3
y _ rent of the land for the time used, beginning at planting .  
d time until close of experiment, at $10.00 per acre per b l *
n ` year, $4.45; cost of seed sown (2 bushels of oats at |_j_’
G ‘ 54 cents, 15 pounds of rape at 10 cents), $2.58; man and team  
H — two days, $8.00; total cost, $15.03. In our experience, but if .4..  
H _ A little, if any, manure is gotten from pigs running in a small I  
.6 dry lot. The cost of the labor in feeding the pigs in the dry  
,f lot and on pasture was about the same and was not included  
,,1 0 in the above figures; The data were simply given to show  
.6  i , that the value of the manure made from the hogs of Lot 3 |_-kl
L was nearly equal to the rent of the land and cost of seeding, [ i,
LS i making the diHerence in the cost of gains in Lots 3 and 4  Qi}
,6 practically the same as stated in the beginning of this para-  gil
_ graph.  
s> Pigs never seem to_ become accustomed to eating large   -
is ` amounts of distillers’-dried grains, and it was fully two weeks  
,6 b — before the pigs in this experiment (Lot 1) would eat a fairly  
L good meal of it. The pigs were given all they would eat of the  
{Q   dried grains, whereas, the rations of the pigs in the other  
2 » lots on pasture (Lots 2 and 3) were limited in amount as has  
H. been already indicated. It has been shown, however, in past _  
I._ _ . experiments at this Station, that it is never profitable to run  
,d · young pigs on pasture without grain, because under such `  
id conditions they just about maintain their weight. * There-  
yy fore, as agrain supplement to pasture, distillers’ dried grains   ·
at i ` proved of value in this experiment, as a gain of nearly one-  lg
). ` I W   175; Ky. Experiment Station, p. 337.  
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