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ihcni somewhat more relished by the pigs than are the 

 mangels. . . . Mangels are not so desirable a food 

 as sugar beets, as they are less nutritious, sugary and 

 tender. The great advantage in growing mangels lies 

 in the large yield per acre. Sugar beets, however, are 

 relished by all farm animals, and to a greater extent than 

 are mangels, especially by pigs. ... If the brood sows 

 had been fed with sugar beets it would have been to 

 their material advantage." 



In experiments reported in the following table from 

 the Ontario agricultural college (Annual Report 1901) 

 the grain ration in the first comparison was barley and 

 middlings, and corn and middlings in the second ; for 

 roots all lots were given pulped mangels : 



TABLE SHOWING GAINS AND DRY MATTER CONSUMED PER 

 100 POUNDS OF GAIN 



The main points brought out by these tests were : "The 

 feeding of equal weights of roots and meal gave more 

 rapid and more economical gains than the feeding of 

 meal alone. The hogs fed roots produced bacon of 



