Show 1 night hog feeding shows good results experiment may prove useful during summer what Is believed to have been the first experiment in night feeding of hogs indicates that this practice may prove highly practical at least during the summer months the experiment was conducted conduct edby by hobert robert C turner a henry III farmer who produced an average gain of 92 pounds each on a herd of duroc hogs he had on his night feeding program for 63 days to encourage his pigs to eat dur ing the cool of the night when they were reluctant to eat during the heat of the summer days turner erected lights in his bog hog lot he had a time clock control set to switch the tights lights on for two night feedings from 10 to 11 30 p in and from 2 to 3 30 a m one pole with a single watt bulb and another pole with two watt bulbs lighted the hog lot area while a third pole with two watt bulbs lighted the self teed feed ers turner fed a ration of ground oats and a palletized milk product in the self feeders hand fed ear corn com and provided mineral salt and good al falfa pasture his pigs farrowed in late march and early april weighed in for the test at 7 pounds or an average of 69 38 pounds each they weighed out at 17 pounds or an average of 1614 4 pounds each this what are believed to be new records for economical and speedy pork production were established by robert C turner ot of henry III tn in his night hog ho feeding experiment peri ment meant a total gain of 9 pound pounds ot of pork about 92 pounds per pig or an average daily gam gain of about pounds per pig the herd consumed a total of 27 69 pounds of feed at a cost of 1 91 according to these figures turner produced bis his gam gain at the rate of pounds of feed for each pounds of pork or a feed cost of about 11 1170 70 per hundred weight the experiment used kilowatt hours of electricity at a cost of 7 40 or about seven cents per pig plush age on farm r I 1 I 1 4 r the future living quarters for bos ale and dobbin may still be a far cry from farmhouse comforts and big city penthouse plush but at least some of them will have air conditioning in the interests of more milk and better livestock health A new barn humidity control tern tem wi ach will reduce excessive barn moisture to levels that will do away with decay rusting and mildewing equipment and losses due to spoiled animal feed bacteria and conditions has been put on the market the new system will ly control fans and other devices dence for reducing excessive animal produced moisture which in winter oft en reaches per cent saturation contour seeded fields produce larger crops contour seeded wheat fields pro duce larger crops than those seed d up and down the slope according to recent expert reports increases of two to three bushels an acre have been reported on con our seeded wheat fields in many ri ns stances also in addition to pro lacing bigger yields wheat fields ceded in this manner erode less t takes little extra time to plow use and seed on the contour tn |