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ern sections the sugar beet industry has led to more ex- 

 tensive use of that root for all classes of stock, and in 

 some sections beets are freely used where other roots 

 were little known in feeding. Roots make an acceptable 

 combination with wheat, barley or any other grain than 

 corn, and their effect upon bacon production has been 

 found beneficial. 



Experiments corroborating this have been extensively 

 conducted in Canada, and in the compilation on "Bacon 

 Production" by Professor G. E. Day, published by the 

 Ontario Department of Agriculture (Bulletin No. 129, 

 Ontario agricultural college), the influence of roots upon 

 the firmness of bacon is pronounced extremely satisfac- 

 tory. The bulletin gives the following summary of re- 

 sults from feeding with roots for bacon production : 



"Hogs seem to prefer sugar beets to almost any other 

 roots. Some difference of opinion exists as to the quan- 

 tity of roots that may be fed v/ith profit to hogs. They 

 should be given in limited quantity to small pigs, but 

 pigs weighing over 100 pounds live weight will, in some 

 cases, take five or six times as much roots as meal, by 

 weight, and make very good gains. We have obtained 

 our best results, however, from feeding equal parts by 

 weight of roots and meal. The proportion of roots may 

 be increased considerably, if thought advisable, as the 

 hogs advance in weight. In all our experiments we have 

 obtained very satisfactory results from root feeding, so 

 far as firmness of bacon is concerned. Though not quite 

 so high in feeding value for hogs, mangels compare very 

 fa\'orably with sugar beets. If the hogs have not been 

 fed sugar beets they will eat mangels very readily. Their 



