1M6 



PIGS 



ceriie hay ad libilum -{-ration of 3 parts of corn and 1 of shorts reduced to a 

 thick slop : a) with hot water ; b) with an infusion of Kicerne hay ; 2) to 

 the above basal ration there were added : a) infusion residue, i. e. lucerne 

 hay stewed for an hour in hot water, and then drained ; b) the same quan- 

 tity" of chopped dry hay ; 3) a) ration of 90 parts of ground maizs 10 parts 

 of chopped lucerne hay mixed and reduced to a paste with boiling water ; 

 /;) the same quantity of corn and the same quantity of infused chopped 

 lucerne hay (solid and liquid parts). 



In the first two experiments the use of the lucerne infusion and the in- 

 fusion residue proved of advantage ; in the third, it was only slightly so. 

 To sum up, this operation cannot be advised in those cases where it would 

 be verj' expensive. 



Table VHI. — Comparison beiu'een corn and: corn -{-shorts; corn -{- barley; 

 corn -{-Tritic urn dicoccwn ; corn -{-u'heat ; corn -{-butcher's offal. — Ave- 

 rage of all the results. 



Number of experiments made 



Number of pigs experimented 

 on 



Daily increase of live weight 

 per head lbs. 



Weight of food required to 

 obtain of 100 lbs increase of 

 live weight lbs. 



Cost of 100 lbs gain of . $ 



Profit per pig $ 



10 



168 

 .94 



10, 

 1681 

 •94 



436 433 

 3-36, 4-07 

 1.701 1.34 



8 

 132 

 1. 19 



478 

 4.04 

 1.78 



162 



1.83 



162 



ii7| 1-45 



5" 459 

 4.26! 4.0S 



2.45 



998 - Specific Effects of Bifferent Rations on the Growth of Pigs ; Experiments at the 

 Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, United States. — Forkks k. b., beegm: 

 F. M., Fritz C. M., Morgan L.E. and Rhue S. N., ii\ Bulletin of the Ohio AgricullurcU 

 Experiment Station, No. 283, pp. iri-132, fig. Woster, Ohio, IQ13. 



Experiments in feeding followed by slatighter and analysis of the car- 

 casses, carried out in pigs, in order to study the specific effect of rations 



