FISH MEAL IN" ANIMAL FEEDING 375 



Weber (1916) stated that "the universally favorable results ob- 

 tained in the feeding of fish meal appear to warrant its extended use 

 as a supplementary feeding stufL" 



Hostetler and Halverson (1927) fed fish meal to swine with excel- 

 lent results. Fish meal gave satisfactory results in experimental 

 feeding at the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 

 (1928). 



GROWTH-PROMOTING PROPERTIES OF FISH MEALS 



The Live Stock Journal (1913) stated that fish meal is used in 

 Germany and Scandinavia as a food for dairy cows, and for fatten- 

 ing bullocks and pigs, with excellent results on their productive 

 powers. Cattle may be fed a daily allowance of from 2 to 2i/^ 

 pounds, and pigs about one-half pound. 



Kleeman (1910) said that fish meal was better and gave greater 

 gains than meat meal in swine feeding. 



According to Martinoli (1914), pigs fed on fish meal grew more 

 rapidly than those fed on meat meal, and they were of superior 

 -quality. Fish meal was valuable in developing the skeleton and in 

 stimulating the appetite and the processes of assimilation, from 

 the earliest age of the pigs. 



In feeding tests with pigs, as reported by Crowther (1916), gains 

 were greater with fish meal than on basal ration of bran and 

 middlings. 



Ashbrook (1917) conducted feeding experiments with swine at the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try experimental farm located at Belts ville, Md., in which he demon- 

 strated that pigs made greater gains on fish meal than on tankage. 



Templeton (1920) reported that menhaden fish meal, which was 

 furnished by the United States Department of Agriculture, proved 

 to be a palatable feed and gave satisfactory gains when fed to swine. 



According to Weaver (1920) fish meal produced greater gains in 

 weight, on less feed consumed, than did tankage. Swine which were 

 fed fish meal produced an average daily gain of 1.76 pounds per 

 head and required only 4.41 pounds of feed per pound of gain in 

 weight, whereas those fed tankage produced only 1.45 pounds of 

 average daily gain in weight per head and required 5.17 pounds of 

 feed per pound of gain. 



Hostetler (1922), in feeding swine, found that fish meal, as a 

 supplement to corn, showed greater gayis than tankage. 



Landis (1923) said fish-meal feeding increased the gains in weigbt 

 of swine slightly, and also improved slightly the quality of the 

 carcasses. 



According to Green and Kichardson (1924), fish meal fed in com- 

 parison with corn meal to young pigs not only produced greater 

 gains in weight on less feed consumed, but cured lameness in the 

 control lot and prevented lameness in the fish meal lot. These in- 

 vestigators also demonstrated that fish meal produced greater gains 

 in weight on a smaller feed requirement than oatmeal. 



Paterson (1925) reported that fish meal gave satisfactory gains. 



