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Show Finish Pigs Quickly For Early Market F,y E. J. Maynard, Head of the Department of Animal -'Husbandry. Utah State Agricultural College With low priced grain and a favorable fa-vorable pork market existing today, to-day, feeder pigs and shotes should be finished for market as rapidly as possible. There are two points in favor of a quick, early finish. The younger pig takes less teed for pound of gain and swine values val-ues usually fall off after the middle mid-dle of September. The cheapest pork may be produced pro-duced by self -feeding wheat oi barley either rolled or ground and in combination with alfalfa pasture pas-ture and with skim milk, buttermilk butter-milk or. some concentrated protein pro-tein supplement such as dried skim-milk powder or tankage. In a pig feeding experiment at present in progress at the Utah State Agricultural Collee, pigs lunning on alfalfa pasture at the rate of 40 head per acre and receiving re-ceiving in addition a ration ot either ground barley or ground wheat with a small amount of dried skim-milk powder are producing pro-ducing the heaviest and cheapest gains in the experiment. Tho grain and dried skim-milk powder are being self-fed in separate sep-arate compartments of a self feeder. feed-er. The pigs iare eating aboutl 85 per cent of grain and 15 pet-cent pet-cent of the dried milk powder. If alfalfa pasture is not available the same combination fed in dry lot will produce very efficient gains. Pigs fattened on barley and wheat with proper supplements are meeting meet-ing with distinct favor from the packers and with the new crop of com still in the offing, swine feeders can take advantage of theso low-priced intermountain smali grains that can be turned into pork most efficiently. |