Show f w V V v county agent v news v V by leroy C funk agent y y y f V vat the ogdon ogden union stock yards a pig feeding degoti demonstration tra hwa has been carried on in connection with the agrical agricultural college extension service fifteen 1 pigs weighing approximately 54 pounds were red fed in one oile lot a ground wheat ration which wis was self fed those these pigs consumed 3 31 pounds of wheat per day on the average of 81 days daya and ad made an average daily gain of 72 of a pound they sold for per cwt cat and after the price of the pigs were deducted and the amount of feed totaled it was found that they returned per hundred for each one hundred pounds of wheat consumed lot 2 in the same demonstration comprised fifteen pigs they were self fed wheat the same 3 as lot one but in ili addition had 69 pounds of skimmed milk per day instead of 31 pounds of wheat consumed per day the pia in the skimmed in milk ilk lot ate 4 46 pounds tarzy th ay were in better condition than the pigs tint that ate wheat only and sold for per hundred weight after the cost coat of the pigs were deducted from the total selling receipts recel its and the total feed consumed determined and allowing per one hundred pounds of skimmed fallk it was waa found that these pigs returned for each one hundred pounds of wheat consumed the addition of the skimmed milk to the bation teed feed needed for growth that tha t the wheat lid did not it allowed foi more of ct focient use of the wheat consumed the fihe skimmed milk piss made money tare others did not we have tanners farmers in ili duehesne county who take wheat to the mill trade it for dyrall which Is given to pigs ns their feed such fa farmers are feeding themselves poor |