Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 246]

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FEEDING PIGS. TABLE

249 of two

Last 8 weeks. ft>. 12 weeks. ft..

14—Food

eaten

by lots E and F, for periods weeks each:

Period 3. ft. Period 2. ft). Period 5. lb. Period 6. ft>. Period 1. lb. Period 4. lb

o Food.

E F E F

Corn meal

!-42.5

0. 37. 70. 42.

-45.5

80.5 112

97.5

120

432

344

Skim milk

V84.0

I 112

112

0

532

336

f

TABLE

15—Cost of food per cwt. of increase, lots E and F, for twelve weeks, and for last eight weeks:

Food. Pounds. Eate. Cost. Total cost. lb. of Cost per increase. cwt.

rru.r^i ,« „,~~i™ ( Corn meal Twelve weeks. ] S k i m m i l k Tflstfi wftPtfl .Last 8 weeks, i Corn meal -j S k j m m i ] k

; ;

432 532 344 336

$0 57 17 57 17

$2 46 90 1 96 57

$3 36 2 53

142 110

$2 37 2 30

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.

1. I t required 13.80 pounds of skim-milk to produce one pound of pork when fed with corn meal in ratio 1:1.7 to fattening hogs. 2. Skim-milk could not be economically fed to fattening hogs unless it was a waste product which could not be otherwise more profitably utilized. 3. I t required on an average 4.12 pounds or .074 bushels of shelled corn to produce one pound of pork during an average period of four weeks, or one bushel produced 13.5 pounds. 4. I t required 4.37 pounds of corn meal to produce one pound of pork, or one bushel of corn made into meal and fed dry, produced 12.8 pounds of pork. 5. When fed dry, shelled corn is more economical than corn meal to feed to fattening hogs. 6. I t required 7.35 pounds or .23 bushels of ground oats to produce one pound of pork when fed with equal parts by weight of corn meal. 7. One bushel of corn is worth nearly three bushels of oats, as food for fattening hogs. 8. Corn-fed pigs gained about 4.5 pounds per week and ate about 21 pounds of corn per hundred pounds of live weight. 9. The gain for the amount of food consumed decreased during fattening. U. I.—17