. The Southern planter. o make: Theamount of green forage eaten by pigs in good pastureis about sufficient for their support. At the Utah Experiment Station, four years trialof pigs confined in small pens required 92 poundsmore grain to make 100 pounds gain than pigs al-lowed exercise and run of pastures. (Page 549.)My pig has had plenty of exercise and the best offeeding in pasture and forest, so I can safely makea reduction in the cost of feeding of 92 pounds per100 poimds. My pig weighs, namely, 250 pounds,which will be 230 pounds of grain at cents perpound, making $ In addition t
. The Southern planter. o make: Theamount of green forage eaten by pigs in good pastureis about sufficient for their support. At the Utah Experiment Station, four years trialof pigs confined in small pens required 92 poundsmore grain to make 100 pounds gain than pigs al-lowed exercise and run of pastures. (Page 549.)My pig has had plenty of exercise and the best offeeding in pasture and forest, so I can safely makea reduction in the cost of feeding of 92 pounds per100 poimds. My pig weighs, namely, 250 pounds,which will be 230 pounds of grain at cents perpound, making $ In addition to this Prof. Henry values fertilizdngconstituents in the form of nitrogen, phosphoric acidand potash, in one ton of wheat bran at $ perton, and in the same weight of com at $ I will be conservative and value fertilizing con-!=tituents in 2,000 pounds millfeed at $10, and comat $G per ton. 700 pounds millfeed pig consiunedwill contain fertilizing constituents valued at $ 963 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [ RED CLOCD AND BurJies Oardeo Cattle Co. Joseph E. Wing at Virginia State Fair. and 3-jO pounds com meal at $ I shall there-fore have a second deduction to make from originalcost of feed of S^ • Let us now sujn up: Cost of 250 lb. pig, all grain, $ Less feed from pasture and forest. .. .$ fertilizing constituents contained in food consumed . $ $ $ Xow, let rao see vrhat my pig has actually costme. 250 poimds costing $ equals centsper pound, or $ per 100 pounds. The Ameri-ean Swineherd, October 1, 1906, in its report, of Chi-eago hog market, quotes average! price of hogs on thatday at .^ 1-2. I am not in this article going into the question ofinterest on capital, labor, etc., but net actual cost offeed given the pig only. If my figures are correct,it appears to me, eveli buying my feed for fattening1k^ is a satisfactory business, and if the editor ofthe Southern Planter wishes for a letter on cost ofkeeping
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