| Show PEED FEED FOR PROFIT IN FEEDING HOGS hot may limy be fed so go that only a small email profit may be made or they may be glien ghen such kinli a balanced ration that thai they will return a maximum there Is no antig magic le in producing tit hir liest B gains aini per pi pig and a resulting high profit it til all depends on tiow how tho the are arc fed for exit example says W W V shay swine extension specialist tit at the north carolina state colip collece col lexe e we may inac two men inen earn each of whom owns ten fio pound piss pigs they feed those pigs through sli a 0 period of 70 days tile the first mail Is of nit an economical trend of MIMI 0 o lip fee feeds his fits piss pigs it a half ration which amounts uni to 1300 poi juds costing co llop at 2 per hundred 21 25 ills pigs gain pounds on each pounds pound tit of fee given them tills this feed posts costs and the pigs pie s rain gain a total of if pound worth at 14 cents per pound Dedi predicting eting the ohp cost of tile feed ali the rower grower lias has left or a profit per pig pi of now the second man ts Is out for tile tiie greatest profit that flint lie he can get out of his 1119 pigs lie full feeds his ten pigs with the result that during the 70 day period they pat eat 2500 pounds pound of feed costing yia 52 during that time and with that feed they rain gain pounds pound worth at 14 cents per pound the second former farmer thus makes a 0 total profit profit of 00 above cost cos of feed or a profit of 6 per pis sir NJ r shay states that tills this greater profit would be received even though the lie feed consumption per hundred pounds gain lit in the case of the second farmers banners fan ners pigs was rounds pound or 50 pounds more than the first owners and tile the cost of pounds gain was which Is one dollar more than the alie first farmers cost more teed feed might have been withheld by the first grower and the hie profit ellmina eliminated ted entirely but there would be nothing new in that as mr shay tills has found many farmers practicing such a system tor for several years kven even today after the value of the feeding teed demonstration has been amply proven there tire are still men who seem to net feel that hint it Is better rot for a ling hog to pay a profit of 4 1 in a ghen length of ottlie tinie than fur for it to 0 o pay a profit of 8 in the same saine time it all ali depends on oil the feed |
