Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . one-half that made during the first period. This was made at agreater cost of feed consumed, pounds per pound gain, whichrepresented an actual cost of 15 cents per pound. While we wouldnaturally expect the gains to be less during the last period, yet this 12 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. small gain seems to indicate that there is a limit in feeding the meal,even though no toxic symptoms had developed in the animal beforethe close of the feeding period. Lot 3 made very satisfactory gains during the first period
Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . one-half that made during the first period. This was made at agreater cost of feed consumed, pounds per pound gain, whichrepresented an actual cost of 15 cents per pound. While we wouldnaturally expect the gains to be less during the last period, yet this 12 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. small gain seems to indicate that there is a limit in feeding the meal,even though no toxic symptoms had developed in the animal beforethe close of the feeding period. Lot 3 made very satisfactory gains during the first period, con-sidering the conditions under which the hogs were kept. An averageof .62 pound of cotton-seed meal was fed per day during this period,with an average daily gain per head of .63 of a pound. This gainrepresents the highest average made by any lot during the feedingtrials. It required only pounds of feed to produce a pound ofgain, the gains being made at a cost of cents per pound, whichwas the most economical gain made by any lot during the Lot 3.—Fed first period, mixture of 4 parts corn and 1 part cotton-seed meal; andsecond period, mixture of 7 parts corn and 1 part cotton-seed meal. The results seem to be clearly in favor of Lot 3 during the first when compared with the first period of Lot 4, it will be foundthat the gains made per day were greater and the cost per poundwas less. During the second period there was a marked decrease in the gainsmade per day by Lot 3. The .25-pound gain made during the secondperiod represents only two-fifths of that made during the first, whilethe cost per pound was more than doubled. This serves as a check on the results obtained in Lot 2, apparentlycorroborating the statement made that if the limitations in cotton-seed meal feeding are exceeded, the gains will be small and unsatis-factory, and even death may result. FEEDING FERMENTED COTTON-SEED MEAL TO HOGS. 13 With Lot 4 the results during the first
Size: 2061px × 1212px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauth, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectagriculture
