242 SWINE IN AMERICA 



with the following prices for roots : Turnips and man- 

 gels, 10 cents, and sugar beets, both kinds, 15 cents per 

 hundredweight. The results on the cai;casses were gen- 

 erally favorable. Commenting on this, Rommel says 

 ( Bulletin No. 47, Part II, Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture) : "The results are re- 

 markably low in feed requirements and would seem to 

 show that roots and milk may be more advantageously 

 combined than pasture and milk." 



ROOTS AND GRAIN 



Experiments at the Indiana, Utah and Montana sta- 

 tions, and at the Ontario agricultural college in feeding 

 roots against grain, to swine, have Ijeen summarized com- 

 paratively in the bulletin cited above, as shown in the 

 table on page 243. 



In the Indiana experiments (Bulletins Nos. 79 and 82) 

 the grain ration was given as slop and was composed of 

 one part corn meal and two parts shorts, with water, salt 

 and ashes available. Mangels were used in the first 

 experiment, and in the second sugar beets were sliced 

 and fed in the slop. Conclusions were summarized as 

 follows : "Roots in some form are a desirable food for 

 pigs in winter, as an addition to the grain ration, in pro- 

 moting healthful activity of the digestive organs and 

 in acting as an appetizer. Sugar beets, artichokes or 

 carrots would no doubt serve this purpose better than 

 mangels. They are more expensive in view of greater 

 cost of production, but this difference is not important. 

 They, however, contain enough more sugar to make 



