| Show experiment on fat fattening bening hogs bulletin no 34 of the utah experiment station discusses a subject of much importance to the farmers of utah at the present time those who are discussing the questions as to what to do with their wheat will be very much profited by a study of this bulletin the subject of the bulletin is the relative Re value of wheat peas corn and barley in the production of pork it Is a record of a feeding experiment peri ment with berkshire bogs during the winter of 1893 4 there were four sets seta of hogs fed one was fed wheat and bran in equal proportions by weight one peas and bran another corn and bran and a fourth barley and bran in other respects the conditions condition were equal the striking result of the trial is the great superiority of peas over the grains the experiment extended from december ath 1893 to may 15 1894 during this time the pigs iu in the set et which were fed peas made a gain of pounds per pig per day those fed wheat gained 69 lbs ibs per day those fed corn 63 those fed barley 56 or during the whole period the three pigs fed peas gained pounds and those fed on wheat pounds W wheat beat ranked next to peas in making growth it will be noticed that a bushel of wheat in this case produced about 90 cants worth of pork those interested in feeding wheat to hogs will be able to figure out from this experiment just about low how much they can make out of their wheat by so doing it is summarized as follows 1 peas mixed with bran half and halt half by weight proved to be far superior to either wheat corn or barley mixed and fed in the same manner both as to rapid gain and to the amount required for one pound of grain 2 the wheat mixture comes second with corn and barley following in the order named 3 the pea mixture gave a gain of nearly pounds more than the wheat mixture pounds more than the corn mixture and pounds more than the barley mixture 4 while the pigs averaged the the same weight see table IV it required 89 of a pound more of the wheat mixture lbs ibs more of the corn mixture and lbs ibs more of the barley mixture to produce lib of grain than of the pea mixture 5 peas and wheat proved excellent feed fed mixed with bran in the manner described 6 reckoning pork at 4 acts per ib live weight af after ter deducting the cost of the b bran ran at 10 per ton wheat fed in this experiment brought acts ct per bushel or per cwt cat peas pea per cwt cat corn per cwt cat and barley per cwt cat 7 on the above basis peas should be worth 13 per cent more than wheat while corn should be worth 15 per cent less and barley 17 per cent less the pigs were purebred pure bred beik berkshires berkshire shire 11 the gains were only moderately good and not excessive yet it is thought that the general run of pigs piga in the territory would not do so well |
