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Feeds and Feeding. 



meal coming second, while corn meal gave the poorest returns 

 with the most feed consumed for a given gain. The dry matter 

 of the blood and dry matter and fat in the kidneys were deter- 

 mined with the results presented in the following table: 



Results of partial analyses of blood and kidneys of pigs fed on dried 

 blood, pea meal and corn meal Wisconsin Station. 



The table shows the dry matter in the blood to be quite uniform 

 for the three lots, the corn-fed lot containing the lowest percent- 

 age. The total dry matter of the kidneys is highest with the 

 corn-fed pigs, the difference being due to the larger amount 

 of fat in the kidneys. The highest percentage of dry matter in 

 the kidneys to dressed carcass is for the pigs fed peas and corn, 

 with those fed blood and corn coming second. 



112. Modifications of carcass. That the bodies of the pigs 

 were affected by the feed given in these trials is made plain by 

 the colored engravings presented by Fortier of France and the 

 writer, * and by the half-tone reproductions from photographs by 

 Shelton 2 and the writer. 3 These views show what Sanborn origi- 

 nally announced, viz., that there is more lean meat in proportion 

 to fat in the carcasses of protein -fed pigs than in the carcasses of 

 those getting corn meal. 



i Kept. Wis. Sta., 1886. 

 * Bui. 9, Kan. Sta. 

 "Kept. Wis. Sta., 1888. 



