. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. LIVE STOCK lIKEEnEKS ASSOCIATION. KV) circumstances. The questions involved are these, will you make pork quickly with a minimum of risk—for time is risk in pork production— or will you make your pork more slowly, and more cheaply with a little greater risk ? You can make more pork from a bushel of corn fed oti pasture if you make it somewhat slowly than if you full-feed. In most of our feeding work, we are obliged to base our conclusions upon slight evidence, simply becau
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. LIVE STOCK lIKEEnEKS ASSOCIATION. KV) circumstances. The questions involved are these, will you make pork quickly with a minimum of risk—for time is risk in pork production— or will you make your pork more slowly, and more cheaply with a little greater risk ? You can make more pork from a bushel of corn fed oti pasture if you make it somewhat slowly than if you full-feed. In most of our feeding work, we are obliged to base our conclusions upon slight evidence, simply because we have not carried our experi- mental work far enough so that we can depend on our results, but we have to do the best we can with what we have, announce our temporary conclusions, and wait for time to improve them by repetition. TABLE I. UTAH STATfON FIVE YEARS' EXPERIMENTS. UatiODS. Daily Gain. Grain per cwt. Gain. Grain, pasture. .. Grain, ^ pasture. Grain, 54 pasture. Grain, 14 374 354 302 274 This table is the result of five years' experimentation on one subject and I believe that it is thoroughly reliable. It is rarely that we find in pig feeding live years' work devoted to a single subject and their re- sults are as follows: The pigs were fed on pasture. The first lot was given all the grain they would eat. The second lot was fed three-fourths of that amount of grain, the third a half and the fourth a quarter as much. The average daily gain per head was naturally according to the amount of grain fed. The grain requirement per hundred weight of gain, however, was in inverse relation to the amount of grain fed. The less the grain fed, the cheaper was the pork, figuring on grain alone. Now you can just take your choice, make that pork fast or make it more slowly and more cheaply. Every man has to settle that question according to his own condition. That is all I see in that question. I do not believe it can be settled definitely for every one, it has to be
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