Show COST OF FATTENING SWINE Profitable Ration Is Amount of Feed Required to Produce Unit of of Increase in Weight my By w. w P P. SNYDER One of the chief problems before the pork producer Is What Is the most profitable ration to feed The proper standard from which to determine the most profitable ration Is the amount of feed of a certain kind required to produce a unit at which the increase is made These are the same In all parts of the country while the cost of or orthe the various kinds of feeds and therefore therefore there there- fore tore the tho cost of ot gains from the vanous various various vari van ous feeds teeds will vary In almost every lo lo- lo- lo The results of or extensive and thorough thorough thor thor- thorough ough experiments extending a period of ot five years by the Nebraska experiment station are aro here bere given the prices used in calculating the raH re- re H Hogs gs Fattened on 90 Per Cent Corn Cornand Cornand Cornand and 10 Per Cent Cut Alfalfa suits being as follows Hogs per pounds corn per bushel 47 cents wheat bushel 70 cents barley barley bar bar- ley icy bushel 40 cents emmer bushel 35 cents rye r-e bushel 56 66 cents milo bushel 50 cents cane cnn bushel 5 50 cents oil J meal ton 30 ton 40 bone meal ton 30 shorts shorts ton 24 alfalfa meal ton 15 chopped alfalfa ton 10 alfalfa hay ton 8 Feed other than alfalfa for convenIence convenience con con- con con- is termed grain ain In the results results re re- re- re suits given Where chopped alfalfa or or alfalfa meal was a part pant of any ration in the experiments all aU the grain was ground The alfalfa meal was mixed with the grain the the chopped alfalfa was put In the trough and grain poured over It The feed was moistened with water after being put In the tro trough gh The feed was weighed separately for each lot of hogs at each earh feeding time In all experiments ex ex- the hogs were weighed every second week The Tho animals als had access to water at ata atal atall a all al l times unless the weather was such that the water froze During such times water was supplied three times each flay day or as often as there was any indication that the hogs cared caned for it Water was supplied In the fields by means of a gravity water system that kept fresh water in cement troughs at atall atall atall all times Results The feeding of ot various pro proportions portions of alfalfa in la a ration nation of corn as alfalfa hay chopped hay a and d as meal indicate that the rations rank as s follows 1 parts parts' corn alfalfa hay in a rack 2 DO 90 parts corn 10 parts chopped alfalfa 3 3 90 parts corn 10 parts alfalfa meal 4 parts corn alone 5 75 parts corn 25 parts alfalfa meal fc t k tG G. G 75 parts c corn rn 25 5 parts part's ch chopped 4 alfalfa 7 7 50 SO parts corn 50 parts chopped alfalfa 8 8 50 parts corn 50 parts alfalfa meal The first three rations stand siirid si d closely I 1 together Of or the many rations tried f 19 none none- has been found the equal of ot corn an and a n small percentage of ot alfalfa A summary of or results indicates tes that the cost of ot feed to pr produce duce a pound market hog was per pounds and that keeping the hog until It weighed pounds Increased the cost to per pounds This Includes only the tho cost of feed teed and does not include the cost of ot labor equipment equipment equip equip- ment mont unusual risk or interest on investment In In- vestment |