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of feedstiiffs, lor there is a Hkelihooci of a heavy demand 

 for certain feeds, making it possible for the manufactur- 

 ers to raise prices beyond the amount justified by the 

 feeding- vakie. Hogs following cattle are often not sup- 

 plied with the ration best suited for producing the great- 

 est gains." 



B. E. Carmichael. animal husbandman of the Ohio 

 experiment station, exhibited at the Ohio state fair of 

 1908, five lots of five pigs each that had been fed for 52 

 days, three of the lots having tankage as part of their 

 ration. 'J'hese 25 pigs were all of the same age, type 

 and condition when their feeding test begun. The de- 

 tails of the feeding and the results it brought are con- 

 densed in the following table : 



The corn meal and tankage mixture fed to three 

 of the lots consisted of eight parts of corn meal to one 

 part of tankage, by weight. Each of the lots on pasture 

 had access to one-fourth of an acre of blue grass and 

 white clover: the lot fed corn alone on pasture ate 

 notably more grass than did the lot fed corn and tank- 



