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PIGS 



Food consumed ditring summer by hoars. — A ration of 2.5 lbs of grain 

 per day was fed per 100 lbs of live weight to lucerne-pastured boars. They 

 consumed 339 lbs of grain per 100 lbs increase of live weight. The increase 

 of live weight per head per day was 0.92 lbs. ; at the end of the autumn the 

 pigs weighed on the average 171 pounds each. 



Maize and supplementary feeds for pig fattening. — From the 14th No- 

 vember 1911 to the 27th February 1912, the rations i to 10 of Table VI 

 were again distributed in the following winter and ration 11 was also tested. 

 I,ucerne hay was given ad libitum. 



Table VI. — Maize {corn) and additioiial foods for pig-fattening 



Group 



Ration 



Shelled corn (1911-1912) or shelled and crushed corn (1912-1913) 

 Ear Corn and lucerne hay 

 Ground corn and lucerne 

 Ground corn and lucerne hay 



Ground corn 90 parts and lucerne meal 10 parts 

 Ground corn 90 parts and shorts 10 parts 



Ground corn 90 parts and of oil meal (extracted by solvents) 10 parts 

 Ground corn 95 parts and butcher's offal 5 parts 

 Ground corn 90 parts, oil cake 10 parts, and lucerne hay 

 Ground corn 95 parts, butcher's offal 5 parts, and lucerne hay 

 Ground corn 90 parts and cotton seed cake (extracted by cold compression) 

 10 parts 



Results. 



