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Show Wintar Shelter, for Pigs. Feeds and Feeding: At the Kansas Kan-sas Agricultural College, Shelton tested test-ed the value of shelter during winter with ten pure-bred Berkshires, weighing weigh-ing from 200 to 250 pounds each, divided di-vided into two lots of -five each. One lot. was placed in a warm basement, each pig occupying a pen by itself. The pigs in the other lot were likewise like-wise kept in separate, pens, but in an open yard, the only protection being a board fence on the north. . The trial began Nov. 27, lasting ten weeks. The outdoor temperature ranged from 12 degrees below zero to 31 above zero, and the Indoor temperature from 19 to 42 degrees above. The pigs were given all the shelled corn they would consume without waste, with the results stated below: The pigs kept in the barn consumed con-sumed 2,878, the total gain was 604, and the amount of feed required for 100 pounds of gain was 476. The pigs kept In open yard consumed con-sumed 2,844 pounds, made a total gain of 479 , pound, and required 593 pounds of feed to make 100 pounds of gain. We learn from the above that the pigs kept in the open yard required 117 pounds, or 25 per cent more corn for 100 pounds of gain than those given shelter. |