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wheat, feeding meals, potatoes, meat- and fish- 

 meal, waste products from the dairy are amongst 

 the most suitable feeding-stuffs. Dried beet slices 

 and bran are digested by pigs to the same extent 

 as by cattle, but they do not have the same value 

 in production as do the full-value (p. 90) nutrients. 

 If the ration is composed of very digestible foods, 

 then some bran, chaff, or husky barley refuse should 

 be given at the same time so as to assist the expul- 

 sion of the faeces. Very large quantities of pro- 

 tein, much in excess of the feeding standards, 

 favour foot-halt. 



Experience has taught that many feeding-stuffs 

 have an influence upon the quality of the meat 

 and particularly so upon the bacon. This influence 

 is much more marked in the colder periods of the 

 year, as has already been mentioned (p. 260). The 

 feeding-stuffs which have the greatest effect in 

 this direction are above all maize, most oily seeds 

 and rich oil-cake meals, rice meal, oily fish meal, 

 distillery waste, brewers' grains. If these materials, 

 however, are given in moderate quantities, at the 

 most one-third of the total concentrated food, or 

 if they are replaced during the last third of the 

 fattening period by other foods, the effect is greatly 

 or entirely diminished. The same advice applies 

 to very watery roots, fresh beet slices, waste pro- 

 ducts from the manufacture of alcohol or starch, 

 or refuse from the dairy. None of these should be 



