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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



TABLE V— EFFECT OF RATIONS. 



Results at Iowa Experiment Station, Animal Husbandry Section, 1913, 

 1914. Effect of rations fed gilts on resulting litters. 



Com only 



Corn plus 200 per cent buttermiik... 

 Cora plus 140 per cent ground alfalfa. 



Ctorn plus alfalfa in rack 



Com plus 10 per cent meat meal 



79 

 88 

 SS 

 92 

 93 



The above figures are self-explanatory. Note that the well supple- 

 mented rations are instrumental in producing more pigs at birth; also 

 that these pigs are heavier; also that on the average they have larger 

 bones and are stronger. These characteristics are all desirable in the 

 feeding of the brood sow. 



The feed eaten and the gains of these gilts are given in Table "VI. 



TABLE VI— FEEDS AND GAINS. 

 Results at Iowa Experiment Station, Animal Husbandry Section. 



Ration Fed 



Corn only 



Corn and buttermilk 



Corn and ground alfalfa. 

 Corn and whole alfalfa. 

 Corn and meat meal 



.46 

 .46 



.48 



*Corn, 50 csnts (if ground, 53 cents) a bushel; hutt'irmilk, 25 cents per cwt.; alfalfa, 



."flO (if ground, $120, and meat meal, $60 a ton. 

 **'C'rEditng gains at $5 per cwt. 



The above table is self-explanatory. It is suggestive, however, that 

 all of the gilts receiving supplenien-ts to corn have cheaper mainten- 

 ance figures than those receiving corn alone. Here again milk, alfalfa 

 and meat meal show up to very good advantage. 



Table VII gives some results of Evvard and Dunn, of the Iowa Ex- 

 periment Station. Animal Husbandry Section. There is given in this 

 table the weights, gains and feed eaten by gilts receiving hominy feed, 

 tankage and alfalfa. 



