Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 September 1939 — PURDUE ANNOUNCES HOG FEEDING TEST RESULTS [ARTICLE]

PURDUE ANNOUNCES HOG FEEDING TEST RESULTS

Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 22.—Indiana’s 80-million dollar hog industry today focused its attention on the results released by the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station on tests made this year on the feeding value of hybrid and open-pollin-ated co 6) and “mixed protein supplements’’ on pasture and in dry lot. Approximately 2,000 Hoosier farmers gathered at the university for the annual Purdue Swine Day, the occasion for the announcement of the feeding results. During the morning, the visiting stockmen inspected the 400 fhiroc Jersey hogs used in the feed tests at the Purdue Swine Experimental farm. At the afternoon program in the livestock judging pavilion, Director Harry J. Reed of the Experiment Station cordially welcomed the farmers to the University, and Prof. C. M. Vestal, in charge of th swine experiments, discussed the results of the feeding trial. In the test here Reid’s Yellow Dent corn was compared with hybrid* 613 and 845 for fattening hogs on pasture, the crushing resistance and the water absorption tests indicated that Reid** Yellow Dent was the softest, and hybrid 613 the hardest corn. Although palatability, the degree of hardness, or some other quality of the corn induced a greater consumption of the open pollinated corn than of the hybrids in free-choice feeding, this factor was not very effective when the three kinds of corn were fed separately. Vestal concluded hardness in the corn w’as not an important factor in the experiments, since the hardest corn was practically as efficient as the softest corn in producing rapid and economical gains in the hogs. After producing top efficiency the last three years of tests, “Supplement C,” consisting of 20 lbs. of meat and bone scraps, 20 lbs. of menhaden fish meal, 40 lbs. of soybean oil meal, 10 lbs. of linseed oil meal, and 10 lb«. of cottonseed meal, again was the most efficient supplement in the experiments on pasture. “Supplement 5,” consisting of 20 lbs. of meat and bone scraps, 20 lbs. of menhaden fish meal, 40 lbs. of soybean oil meal, 10 lbs. of cottonseed meal, and 10 lbs. of alfalfa leaf meal, was found to be the most efficient supplement in the dry lot experiments. as determined by the rate of gain, feed consumed, and cost of gain. ! Other observations made included: The supplements containing fish meal were more efficient than those without this feed.