| Show Hog Raising Aid To I Dairy airy Industry LOGAN Summer LOGAN Summer and Winter Winter Win Win- Vintel ter tel Rations for Fattening Hogs is the title of a new bulletin just issued by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station In fn this bulletin bulletin bulletin bul bul- letin H. H H. H Smith Associate Animal Animal Animal An An- imal Husbandman and E E. E J. J Maynard Maynard May May- Ia nard Animal Husbandman report experiments to determine relative values of tank ge pow pow- powder powder der and semisolid proteIn protein protein pro pro- tein when fed with ground barley barley barley bar bar- ley or ground wheat in lot dry-lot or on alfalfa pasture A second objective of the experiments was to determine the value of alfalfa pasture for fattening swine and anda a third was to compare barley and wheat in lot dry-lot and pasture ra ra- ra- ra Practically all of the hogs on the farms of Utah as of August 1 1934 are in the ter tel sections of the state where t they ey fit in in well with dairying Utah however is a hog-deficient hog area and produces about hogs less les's than are slaughtered in the state for for its own use Large amounts of milk byproducts byproducts pro by ducts such as buttermilk buttermilk butter butter- milk mille and whey are produced in Utah Large amounts of alfalfa are also grown in the irrigated sections thus providing excellent pasture for the growing out and feeding of market marlet hogs Barley is the principal feeding grain grown grO in this state Much wheat however is grown which in recent years has been fed ex ex- to livestock The production and fattening of hogs in conjunction with dairy- dairy farming has proved to be well adapted to the agricultural program program program pro pro- gram in large dairy centers By furnishing a ready market marlet for dairy products by-products buttermilk buttermilk buttermilk but but- and whey hogs help to strengthen the dairy industry while home-grown home grains and le leguminous leguminous leguminous le- le pastures complete an adequate adequate adequate ad ad- equate swine-growing swine and fattening fattening fattening fatten fatten- ing ration for hogs raised on the farm It is estimated that central creameries in Utah are producing over 2000 tons of pow pow- der The possibility of getting this concentrated protein supply back to the farms where the milk was originally produced appeals to the creamery men in face of a steadily increasing supply of the product Copies of this bulletin can be obtained free by residents of the State by writing to the Utah Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural Ag Ag- I Station Logan |
