Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — LIVE STOCK. [ARTICLE]

LIVE STOCK.

Warm Barns for Fattening Stock. In an experiment made in feeding two lots of pigs of equal age and weight, one being in pens in a warm barn, and the other being in open pens out of doors, the following results were obtained: From Nov. 27 to Feb. 5, in the warm barn one pound of pork cost 4.78 pounds of corn, and in the outside pens one pound of pork cost 5.92 pounds of corn, a difference of about 25 per cent. But during the very severest weather for four weeks, in the warm barn one pound of pork cost 5.71 pcPunds of corn, and in the outside pens it cost 11.32 pounds of corn, or nearly double the amount. Experienced feeders say that the effect of cold weather upon fattening stock is more marked upon other animals than it is upon swine, and if it takes twice as many pounds of corn to make a pound of pork out of doors as it does in the barn, it will certainly require as much more, and perhaps twice as much, to make a pound of beef in a -stable where water will freeze as it will in one Where there is a moderate temperature, not lower than 50 degrees, and also that the same amount of feed given before the weather is very cold wilt make much more fat than it will later in the season.