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Efects on quality of lard of small shoats fed on 

 cowpea meal and cotton seed meal. 



The lard from all lots had a very low melting point 

 for grain fed animals, probably due in part to small 

 size and extreme immaturity of the pigs as well as to 

 the softening effects of peanuts in an earlier period. 

 We may safely discard the melting point of the jowl 

 lard fat of Lot V, as probably being influenced by ac- 

 cidenital conditions, possibly by variations in the per- 

 centage of moisture or other impurities left after rend- 

 ering. Shutt has observed that unthrifty pigs have soft 

 pork, which condition may constitute the explanation 

 of the low melting points in Lot V. 



The kidney lard was firmest when the cotton seed 

 meal mixture was fed, the advantage in favor of this food 

 being 4 degrees F. as compared with com meal. 



