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Disz$iZZers’ Dried Grains in Swine Feeding Operations. 17 ° V .
ide . one part on pasture, made an average daily gain of 1.027 ‘ [
B8. . pounds, producing 100 pounds of pork on 300 pounds of grain, i ·,,
4.3 , at a cost of $4.27; whereas, Lot 4, receiving corn meal five l ul .i
iy- T parts, and distillers’ dried grains one part in the dry lot, made  
nt. an average daily gain of .883 pound, producing 100 pounds of  
l gain on 444 pounds of grain, at acost of $6.32. It can there- F  
hat . fore be seen that the pigs receiving corn meal alone on pas- ` 1 · i
uld V ture made over twice the average daily gain of Lot 1, receiv-  
.se, ing distillers’ dried grains alone on pasture, while the cost of  
ing ‘ a hundred pounds of gain was practically the same; and that ‘ l -.1
ra- the ration of corn meal five parts and distillers’ dried grains , l i l
p one part, fed to pigs on pasture, was more efficient and T i   
ds, economical than the ration of corn meal alone, producing a {Z? 
; 15 tenth of a pound larger average daily gain and requiring 44 lug;
was- 1 pounds less feed for each 100 pounds of gain.  
ant. 9. The pigs in Lots 2, 3, and 4, were in much better con- ’  
g 15 dition at the end of the experiment than were those in Lot 1, lg, 
f a and were valued at 50 cents more per hundredweight.  
ried 10. Pigs running on a pasture of oats and rape (Lot 3) . Q,.}
ain- ·  and receiving distillers’ dried grains as a supplement to corn, li?]
if a T gained at the rate of 10.78 pounds more per hundred pounds  
ains of grain fed, made an average daily gain of .14 pound per · .  
pig more, and at a cost of $2.05 less per hundred pounds of  
the gain, not considering cost of pasture, than the pigs receiving   _
for V the same ration in the dry lot (Lot 4). The value of the ma-  
7.00 nure, however, produced by Lot 3 nearly paid for the cost of  
the pasture. Little manure, if any, is ever taken froma dry id
not lot.  
the 11. Past experiments at this Station have shown that  
eat. young pigs scarcely maintain their weight while running on  
run- pasture without grain, while the young pigs in this experi- `  
pro- r ment, receiving distillers’ dried grains alone and allowed -  
st of pasture, averaged nearly half apound of gain daily, at a cost  
iade of 4.97 cents per pound gain, thus making profitable an oth-   .
ls of erwise unprofitable pasture. $1
Lot ‘_ 12. Not taking into consideration the cost of laborinvolved  
·ainS in feeding the hogs, or the cost of pasture, and figuring the il