| Show A 41 CK C HOGS ON LESS CORN INCREASES PROFITS if abele Is one universal principle of f swine production it Is that you yon ant make money in hogs without g sra gra 0 this means of course pasture for summer and roughage of some ome kind hind during the xii winter inter I 1 lia rising ising hogs on loss less corn which means feeding thern supplements not so costly Is a subject concerning ninny farmers results Ito of experiments conducted by the animal hu husbandry bandry department at south dakota state college indicate that eliat the introduction of alfalfa hay bay into the ration for hogs bogs materially reduces the amount of corn required to a given amount of pork in two trials conducted conduct etl recently ono one lot of if pigs was fed only corn and anacher lot was fed corn linseed meal and chopped alfalfa hay where it required pounds of it corn and 43 pounds of to produce pounds of anin in the first lot it required pounds 0 of corn 25 23 pounds pound of ge pounds of li need meal and pounds of alfalfa liny hay in the second cond lot several stations reora mend chopped alfalfa hay only for use in a hog ration to find out it if whole alfalfa hay lay could not dot be substituted a 1 I teat was run at the south dakota college f farm three lot lots a of 0 hogs os wore were fed chopped hay while three thre other lots rec receded elied good alfalfa liny hay la in a rack the results to to date indicate that ohp lie pigs made approximately as good gains where the uncut liny was fed its as when the hay lay was chopped further trials will be conducted along this unit line before final recommendations can be made if our present results are borne out in further trials it will be of great importance to the farmers of south dakota A H kuhlman of 0 the an aa linal hub husbandry bandry department points out it if choice alfalfa hay fed in racks will III produce gains approximately as good as those obtained in feeding chopped hay lay many farmers in this state will lie ho in a pogi position tion to increase their returns from feeding pigs in the winter months the addition of alfalfa liay hay has bils increased the dally gains in every instance ln im fact the average gains made by the pigs on trial compare very well with those made by pigs on tor for vr age during the summer |
