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SWINE IN AMERICA 



fed on this feed that no ration which we have as yet com- 

 pounded produces thicker, firmer or whiter fat than does 

 linseed-oil meal used witli corn. In our slaughter tests 

 of carload lots of hogs fed upon various grain nations 

 the butchers very soon learned to distinguish by the 

 appearance of the carcass between individuals which 

 had received oil meal and those which had received 

 other feeds ; the former in general being characterized 

 by such marked excellence, from the packer's point of 

 view, as to place them almost in a class by themselves. 

 "The accompanying data summarize five tests of lin- 

 seed-oil meal as a supplement of corn, and present some 

 rather remarkable results : 



RESULTS FROM USE OF LINSEED OIL MEAL USED AS A SUP- 

 PLEMENT TO CORN 



"The first lot, fed on corn alone, produced lOO pounds 

 of pork from 556 pounds of grain: that is, ten pounds 

 of pork per bushel of corn. These figures coincide with 

 the average of a large number of experiments in which 

 corn alone has been used for pig-feeding. The second 

 and third lots were fed at the same time as the above and 

 differ only in the proportion of oil meal fed. Five parts 



