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Feeds and Feeding. 



the corresponding grain -fed lots. When fed in connection with 

 whey, the quality of the pork compared favorably with that pro- 

 duced from barley or rye. There is no evidence that peanut or 

 palm- nut cake injured the quality of the pork when fed with 

 either skim milk or whey. These points are shown in the fol- 

 lowing table, which summarizes the results obtained at slaugh- 

 tering time with some of the pigs fed in the trials reported in the 

 preceding article: 



Average data at slaughtering time with pigs fed various forms of 

 oil cake Copenhagen Station. 



In experiments 1 conducted in the years 1891-94, the same 

 kinds of oil cake used in the preceding trials were compared with 

 barley, but the ratio of barley to oil cake in these trials, instead 

 of being 1 to 1, as in the first trials, was 1 to 2 or 2 to 1. In all 

 the series one lot of pigs was fed barley alone, for the sake of com- 

 parison. A small quantity of buttermilk and skim milk was also 



1 Kept. 30, 1895. 



