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Feeds and Feeding. 



purposes when cooked and fed with corn meal. Potatoes may have 

 a higher value than the rating here given, in furnishing variety in 

 ration to growing animals. (316, 658) 



867. Roots. At the Ottawa Station, l Eobertson fed a mixture 

 of peas, barley and rye, steamed and warm, to one lot of pigs, 

 giving a second lot the same feed, with sugar beets additional. 

 For a third lot the grain was uncooked. The fourth lot received 

 the same feed as the third, with sugar beets additional. 



At the Utah Station, 2 Sanborn fed wheat to one lot of pigs and 

 wheat and roots to a second. In a second trial a mixture of oats, 

 peas, wheat and barley was fed to one lot, with roots additional 

 to a second. 



At the Ohio Station, 3 Devol fed corn to one lot of pigs and corn 

 and roots, mostly carrots, to a second lot. The results of these 

 trials are summarized in the following table: 



Feeding grain with and without roots Ottawa, Utah and Ohio Stations. 



Averaging the above trials we learn that feeding 400 pounds of 

 roots saved 65 pounds of grain. On this basis, 615 pounds of roots 

 would save 100 pounds of grain. The results conform closely with 

 the Danish findings, in which one pound of barley proved equal to 



Kept. 1891. 



Rept. 1891. 



Rept. 1884. 



