. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 152 Missouri Agricultural Report. do you feed your spring pigs on pasture after weaning?" Replying to this question, the eighty-three who use blue grass or timothy as their principal pasture, answered as follows: No. of replies. Percent of whole. Corn alone Middlings, shorts or shipstufl Oilmeal Tankage or meat meal Bran Rye, wheat or oats Oats Wheat Rye. These replies show that when the corn is supplemented by a more nitrogenous feed, the preference is for so
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 152 Missouri Agricultural Report. do you feed your spring pigs on pasture after weaning?" Replying to this question, the eighty-three who use blue grass or timothy as their principal pasture, answered as follows: No. of replies. Percent of whole. Corn alone Middlings, shorts or shipstufl Oilmeal Tankage or meat meal Bran Rye, wheat or oats Oats Wheat Rye. These replies show that when the corn is supplemented by a more nitrogenous feed, the preference is for some wheat by-product, per cent, using shorts, middlings, or shipstuffs and per cent, bran; per cent, feed milk, while per cent, feed linseed oil meal, and per cent., either tankage or meat meal, and a smaller per cent, some mixture of oats, rye or wheat. These figures refer to the time just following weaning when the pig is being started to growing well after being weaned. As the shoat gets larger, it is common practice to increase the amount of corn, and in most cases to decrease the amount of slop or stop feeding it altogether. While in general it gives faster gains to feed a supplement to corn, a pig that has received a ration containing sufficient bone and muscle-forming food until six months old, will do very well until ready for market on corn alone. Until a pig is six months old, however, unless on a good clover, alfalfa, cowpea or rape pasture, in order to get best results should receive something besides straight corn. The amount of feed to be given varies with the purpose of the feeder, as to whether the pig is intended for market at six to seven months of age, or at eight to ten months, or older. This fact is true, however, that pigs can be made so fat before they have reached a weight at which it is profitable to sell them, that they will not make a satisfactory gain. On the other hand, too little feed, especially on timothy or blue grass pastu
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