FEEDING BY-PRODUCTS 



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and made slower gains. The feeding of tankage or 

 ground bone to young, growing pigs produces a very 

 marked effect on the strength of bone when compared 

 with a corn ration, and its influence is still marked when 

 compared with corn and shorts on alfalfa pasture." In 

 the Nebraska experiments tankage was figured at a cost 

 of $40 a ton. 



In one of tlie experiments reported by the Nebraska 

 station (Bulletin No. 94), 30 hogs which had been with 

 grain-fed steers were separated into three lots of ten each 

 and placed in alfalfa pasture. They were fed on rations 

 as indicated in the table following, from May to July, a 

 period of eight weeks, each lot being fed practically all 

 the hogs would eat. They were in good condition 

 throughout the experiment. Results were as follows: 



RESULTS FROM FEEDING SOAKED CORN AND TANKAGE 



This was a return of nearly $i a bushel for corn when 

 fed with the addition of but 5 per cent of tankage. 



PACKERS' RESIDUE VS. SKIM MrLK 



Packers' "meat meal" and tankage make in a way an 

 acceptable substitute for skim milk, and are accordingly 



